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An open New York Times page reads in bold capital letters, "higher education builds America."

ACE Tells Presidential Candidates, ‘Higher Education Builds America’

In a full-page ad in The New York Times, the American Council on Education addressed both presidential candidates and made its case for higher ed. Here’s why.

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A Year of Investigations, Punishments and Arrests of Scholars

Dozens of faculty members and grad student workers have faced discipline from colleges, universities and police since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack. Some have now returned to work. Others lost their jobs.

UCLA Jewish students waving Israeli flags counterprotest fellow students in their Palestinian solidarity camp on their Westwood campus on Thursday, April 25, 2024. College protests around the country are seeking their schools divest from Israel over the Israel-Hamas war.

Oct. 7 Kicked Off a Difficult Year for Higher Ed. How Should Universities Move Forward Now?

We asked higher ed leaders and thinkers to take stock of the fraught year just past and offer a vision for the future. They gave us a quarrelsome, eloquent earful.

Texas A&M International President Dies Unexpectedly

The president of Texas A&M International University in Laredo died unexpectedly on Thursday, according to a university announcement. No cause...

New Presidents or Provosts: Central State, Coastal Carolina, Husson, New Haven, St. John’s, Saint Xavier, Wayland Baptist

Lynne Coy-Ogan, senior vice president for academic affairs and provost at Husson University, in Maine, has been named president there...
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The U.S. Started Investigating a Professor’s Pro-Palestine Speech. Then She Was Fired.

The Office for Civil Rights said it didn’t ask for the firing as part of a probe into how Muhlenberg College handled complaints related to a professor who allegedly made “pro-Hamas statements."

Paier College Denied Authority to Operate by Connecticut

Paier College, a troubled for-profit art school, is facing possible closure amid a state investigation that found it failed various...
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Universities of Wisconsin Fires Joe Gow Again

The Universities of Wisconsin Board of Regents voted to fire former UW–La Crosse chancellor Joe Gow from his tenured faculty job over making pornography.