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Florida seeks to silence speech on social activism across state schools, per regulation

University Business

.” The broad language of the regulation, like other recent policies written by Florida legislatures aimed at K12 and higher education, has sparked concern in faculty and other education leaders on how expansively it can be applied. It has a ripple effect on the entire state university system.”

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U of Arizona professors say they're blackballed from service

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Professors at the University of Arizona are demanding information regarding an alleged list of faculty members deemed too troublesome to serve on a key faculty governance committee. CAFT is charged with dealing with faculty employment concerns and internal grievances.

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New York pledges more higher ed funds, but deficits run deep

Inside Higher Ed

” This shift, Kowal said, comes at a precipitous moment for the state’s colleges and universities. But many leaders and faculty members at New York’s public higher ed institutions also say the increased support isn’t enough to pull them out of the financial pit created by years of state cuts and disinvestment.

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Cost allocation in the research university and what it tells us

Changing Higher Education

Lombardi , in How Universities Work. This somewhat cynical observation by Lombardi was informed by his broad and sometimes painful experiences as Provost at Johns Hopkins University, President of the University of Florida, Chancellor of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and President of the Louisiana State University System.

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AAUP Report on Political Interference in Higher Education: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 185 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Henry “Hank” Reichman

The Change Leader, Inc.

Drumm McNaughton McNaughton and Reichman cover the processes and conclusions of the AAUP report, emphasizing the detrimental effects on academic governance, academic freedom, and the well-being of faculty and students. Notable among these are faculty departures and a discernible decline in academic standards.

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Is DeSantis Right or Wrong?

Inside Higher Ed

When conservatives look at our colleges and universities, what do they see? Faculty are overwhelmingly democrats or left-leaning, by a ratio of 9 to 1. On the one hand, staff and faculty at colleges and universities must not tell students what to think or believe. This is not neutrality: pluralism is an ideology.

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Hard Jobs

Susquehanna President's Blog

At the Intercollegiate Athletics Forum in early December, Mark Emmert, president of the NCAA, said “Being a university president is the hardest job in America.” Being a university president isn’t the hardest job I have had. Being a university president isn’t even the mostly intellectually taxing job I have had.