Tag: Colleges and Universities

The Fight Over Academic Freedom

Amid spiraling campus speech debates, many professors are rallying in defense of a bedrock principle. But can they agree on just what it means?

The New School Faces Budget Troubles So It Is Selling Its Presidential Residence

The New School wants to sell its presidential residence in Manhattan for $20 million. It joins other small colleges that are turning to their real estate to help them through budget troubles.

California’s Push for Ethnic Studies Runs Into the Israel-Hamas War

The state’s high school students will be required to take the subject, but some object to how the discipline addresses the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Lawsuit Challenging University of California’s D.E.I. Statements Is Tossed

A federal judge ruled that the plaintiff, who said the diversity statements act as a “functional loyalty oath,” did not have standing.