The AAUP has joined a coalition challenging a new Trump executive order that seeks to undermine efforts designed to promote inclusion and help ensure equal opportunity.

Alabama, Kentucky, Oklahoma and Tennessee are considering legislation that will impact tenure, faculty governance and more.

Following rational choice frameworks, past scholarship often points to economic calculations and uncertainties informing college-enrollment decisions of marginalized students. I contribute by examini...

The sociology curriculum is likely just the state’s first foray into course development; the Florida Department of Education is already working on a similar framework for American history classes.

Federal immigration agents detained a Madison soccer player's mother while she was in Minnesota for her son's games. Now, he's struggling.

Nearly as many migrants have died in detention so far this year than over the four years of the Biden administration.

A new survey from the Trevor Project found that between 2023 and 2025, LGBTQ+ youth reported an increase in anxiety, depression and suicide ideation.

On July 25, the US Department of Justice Civil Rights Division sent a letter launching an investigation into the George Mason University Faculty Senate—because faculty members dared to show support fo...

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With a veto-proof supermajority, Republican lawmakers in Kentucky overturn Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear’s vetoes on two notable higher education bills.

Dear Governor Beshear, We, the undersigned faculty members at Kentucky’s public universities, along with the administrators, staff, students, and community supporters who have signed this letter in s...

Dear Governor Beshear, We, the undersigned faculty members at Kentucky’s public universities, along with the administrators, staff, students, and community supporters who have signed this letter in s...

Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear issues expected veto of a Republican-backed bn on diversity, equity and inclusion in Kentucky’s public colleges.

Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear is unlikely to sign the bill, but Republican lawmakers hold a veto-proof supermajority in the Legislature.

A bill to ban diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives at public colleges and universities passed out of the Senate Wednesday. It’s likely to head to the governor’s desk once the House concurs.

OpEd: HB 4 and HB 424 will push students, athletes, researchers, faculty, and higher-education leaders, along with scientists, nurses, doctors, counselors, teachers, and more to leave Kentucky.

Democratic areas of red states face a double whammy of policies from Trump and state legislatures.

Tens of millions of dollars in federal grants for teacher training and retention have been canceled in North Carolina, including a $12 million program in Wake County.

The Trump administration’s attacks on DEI are aimed at reversing the civil-rights movement.

In multiple ways, Trump is pushing people with disabilities out of public life

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The legislation would also establish post-tenure reviews and require all instructors to share their contact information and syllabi publicly.

The genius of the right-wing crusade against D.E.I. is that the term is amorphous enough that it can mean many different things to many different people.

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:     Section 1.

Academics say the move imperils scientific progress and helps America’s rivals