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‘Antiracist’ and ‘queer’ scholarship also encouraged Texas Christian University wants to hire a new composition professor who is particularly versed in “trans rhetoric,” “Black studies,” or “antiracist rhetoric.” Applicants for this new rhetoric and composition professor job, starting in August 2027, will also be considered if they have interests in “disability studies,” “glo...

Bad trustees, social media to blame for free speech erosion, panelists say The campus fallout following the October 7 terrorist attacks exposed a crisis in higher education that demands “urgent action,” Vanderbilt University Chancellor Daniel Diermeier said during a panel on academic freedom this week. While there have been recent “good developments,” such as Yale’s self-crit...

University essay series argues Trump administration is creating ‘regime of forgetting’ A history scholar at the University of Michigan criticized the federal government’s efforts to portray the United States in a positive light for the nation’s 250th anniversary, claiming during a webinar Tuesday that doing so “aims to conceal difficult but necessary truths.” The “History in ...

Private, Christian university denies classroom teachings or scholarly activities were grounds for disciplinary action Pepperdine University is pushing back against allegations that it disciplined a professor after teaching about depictions of a “black Jesus,” pointing instead to what campus leaders contend is her repeated unprofessional conduct. The Foundation for Individual ...

OPINION/ANALYSIS The College Fix went to Slippery Rock State University to ask college students about American identity and immigration. The results were shocking.

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