Defending academic freedom, shared governance, the economic security, the rights of all those who teach or conduct research in higher education, advocating for the interests of the broader communit…

The Right and I agree on the potential of universities as a space in which students develop ideas that can transform the world. The difference is, they want to stamp it out, and I want to encourage it...

Republican lawmakers push for conservative professors to counter purported leftwing indoctrination in schools

A growing number of Republican legislators are using their power in the name of intellectual diversity to get right-leaning professors in front of all students, at conservative-leaning civic centers.

A video released Wednesday by a conservative media organization suggests Ohio State is ignoring a state-imposed diversity, equity and inclusion ban, based on an interview of a single Ohio State employ...

On Monday, Feb. 9, Luke Perez, an assistant professor at Ohio State University, was captured on camera tackling a filmmaker to the ground. The next day, he was placed on leave pending an investigation...

Liliana Rivera Baiman has worked to build progressive movements alongside workers and working families for over 18 years.   Born in rural San Luis Potosí, Mexico, she immigrated to the U.S. as…

If you saw an armed stranger forcing his way into your neighbor's home at dawn, would you have the right to stop him?

AAUP President Todd Wolfson issued the following statement in response to the shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on Saturday, January 24.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents terrorized Columbus today, trolling parking lots and arresting people in various parts of the city. Officials with the City of Columbus, including the ...

Recent Episodes

They are the largest hate group in America, wrapping themselves in the red-white-and-blue of the flag, marching into the middle of American cities and claiming to be patriots.

“It’s about as sad as you can possibly imagine."

We are the reporters, photographers and digital producers of The Columbus Dispatch and Newark Advocate, two of the oldest news organizations in Central Ohio. We are fighting for our own futures and th...

Event in Columbus by Matter on Wednesday, December 10 2025 with 161 people interested.

Podcast launches December 8! Latest Episodes [enjoy the sneak preview as I prep for the launch]

Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

Utah prosecutors filed a charge of manslaughter against the armed volunteer who they say killed an innocent bystander at a No Kings protest.

Educator. Scholar. Organizer.

We can call out the hate without empathizing with those, like Kash Patel and Vivek Ramaswamy, who are actively harming communities of color.

On the border with Lebanon, communities have started to return and rebuild – even though some are in no hurry to return

Of griots and professorsAs a scholar, I have spent nearly three decades studying the art and social life of West African griots. Griots are storytellers, guardians of cultural memory (they are known c...