- NEWS BRIEFS: “MassReconnect” Doubles Adult Student Enrollment at State’s Two-Year Colleges
- NEWS BRIEFS: Gallup Says Lower Confidence in Higher Education is “Largely Political”
- NEWS BRIEFS: Legal Risks Compel FL College Student Groups to Curtail Student Voter Registration Drives
- NEWS BRIEFS: “Men Wanted” as Women Outnumber Men at Michigan’s Public Universities
- NEWS BRIEFS: DEI Curtailment With A “Broad Brushstroke” In Utah Public Higher Ed
- NEWS BRIEFS: Reorganization of Pennsylvania Public Higher Ed Is a Political Matter
- NEWS BRIEFS: Attorney Says “FL Legislature Can Restrict (Public Higher Ed) Professsors’ Speech Because Their Speech is the Government’s Speech”
- NEWS BRIEFS: Cal State President on Student Protesters, “Trust We Had (in students) to Practice Non-Violence Has Been Violated”
- NEWS BRIEFS: MSU Investigation Finds Board Chair Behavior was “Unbecoming, Unprofessional” and a “Violation of the Board’s Code of Ethics”
- NEWS BRIEFS: U.S. House Republicans to Expand Higher Education Targeting
PERSPECTIVES: Speak Out? The “Politics of Politics” is Dicey
Commenting on “external matters” (language from the University of Illinois) tells you all you need to do about what can happen when departments dive into, well, “external matters.” IHE’s Colleen Flaherty found that “university guidance generally urges caution, citing academic freedom risks.” Read her analysis here.
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