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Texas A&M University is the latest school to end women’s and gender studies programs and teaching race. We know why

WASHINGTON—AAUP President Todd Wolfson issued the following statement in response to the Governor of Oklahoma’s signing of Executive Order 2026-07, which immediately eliminates the conferral of academ...

The proposal appears to mark the first time a Texas university system offers definitions of what kind of instruction related to race and gender should not be permitted.

Private equity billionaire Marc Rowan was revealed last week to be the driving force behind a Trump administration campaign pressuring nine major U.S. universities, including Brown, MIT, and the Unive...

Brown University students and faculty are urging school president Christina Paxson not to support the Trump administration's "Compact for Academic Excellence."

Up in College Hill, students and faculty at Brown University will hold a demonstration to urge the university's president to not sign the White House's newly announced "Compact for Academic Excellence...

Trump’s compact isn’t just coercive. It’s incoherent.

This compact goes against every democratic principle our country and our schools should uphold, and we reject the Trump administration’s attempt to cajole universities into compliance through explicit...

A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics

October 2, 2025 We have received reports that Penn has been “invited” to sign a so-called “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” by the federal government, and that failing to do so wou...

Who needs peer review? Plan offers easier grants to schools that agree to limits.

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Judge rules non-citizens have the same free speech rights as US citizens under the first amendment

In a free society, we strive to eliminate the punishments that make discretion a rational choice—and not glorify discretion as a virtue when it is actually a vice.

In part due to the Trump administration's changes to the student visa policy, there are fewer students on college campuses this fall.

A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that the Trump administration violated the First Amendment rights of international students and professors who participated in pro-Palestine advocacy, handing a victor...

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