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“Finding a way to engage with those emotions, but in a way that isn't demoralizing and defeating — I'm trying to figure out what that's going to look like.”

As the national conversation about family separation at the U.S.-Mexico border continues, faculty members are grappling with how to incorporate the issue into their fall courses.
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The open seat will give President Trump an opportunity to appoint the second justice of his term and set the court on a more conservative footing for, possibly, decades.

A Reagan appointee, Kennedy provided a moderate voice and sometimes sided with the court’s liberal arm, as in his surprising opinion in 2016 on the use of race in college admissions.
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"When I stepped into the visiting room to see generations of mostly black and Latino men interacting with their kids under the gaze of guards, I was overwhelmed with sadness and anger that this was happening in the United States and that people weren’t talking about it."

In the aftermath of Harvard’s controversial decision to reject an ex-inmate for a graduate program, Elizabeth Hinton is pushing the university to confront that question.
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“It’s quite possible that this could promote greater assertiveness, maybe aggressiveness, by universities confronting unions at a time when resources are limited and stretched. Clearly, because of the ruling’s full-fledged opposition to the system of private financing and dispute resolution, it will create a lot of instability and litigation.”

A former chairman of the National Labor Relations Board says the effect of the decision on higher education depends, in part, on the appetite for “internecine warfare” on public-college campuses.
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An institution’s own history is a topic that can, and should, resonate with everyone. (From 2016)

For one thing, a large course with cross-disciplinary appeal creates a sense of community that, in both short and long terms, do a college good.
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If we are really committed to elevating human knowledge, are we on the right track? (From 2016)

The privilege to pursue knowledge carries a responsibility to share it with the world.  
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"As a woman whose life has been transformed by the opportunity to earn an advanced degree, I am deeply saddened that others have had their paths cut short. As a member of the professoriate, I am embarrassed by the behavior of some in my profession. As an administrator, I am determined to do my own part to make the campus environment safer for our students. "

It’s time to breach the “firewall” that protects professors from accountability for abhorrent behavior in the name of academic freedom.
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The proposed change risks devaluing liberal education "at a time when we have reduced higher education to employability." said Lynn Pasquerella, president of the Association of American Colleges and Universities. "It reinforces the idea that the only value of an education is whether you can get a job upon completion."

A proposal to strike the word from the governing laws of the University of Colorado Board of Regents points to unease and confusion surrounding the term in higher education.
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One theory in legal circles is that a campus should be a community of rational discourse, where order and morality trumps whatever you feel like saying. But others believe that if there’s any place where free speech should reign, it’s the university.

Campus lawyers debated the question on Tuesday during the annual conference of the National Association of College and University Attorneys.
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The travel ban — and more recently, the separation of migrant children from their parents at the U.S.- Mexico border — horrified and galvanized many Americans. But for international students — those already studying in the United States and those thinking of coming here — those little-noticed rules changes and regulatory revisions have continuously ratcheted up anxieties first sowed by the travel ban.

The president may restrict travel from certain countries, the justices said. Higher ed has mobilized against that unwelcoming signal to the world, but many foreign students have already factored it into their choices. “The damage is done,&rdquo
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The Education Department found shortcomings in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s current policies for reporting complaints.

In a closely watched case, the Department of Education has found that the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill violated the federal law in its handling of five complaints.
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"One of my co-workers is having a very difficult time with my transition and tends to avoid me when possible." (From 2017)

A librarian at a small college chronicles the ups and downs of transitioning in academe.
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Barring speakers or preventing hate speech does not safeguard the oppressed. It empowers the oppressors, and it suggests that their words are to be feared for a compelling, persuasive power that, absent the muzzle, might infect others. (From 2017)

Protecting the mainstream from novel — even outlandish — ideas never ends well.
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Merging the Departments of Education and Labor is a powerfully bad idea that would solve none of the department’s current problems and would exacerbate some of its most glaring weaknesses. Chief among those weaknesses has been a refusal or an inability to appreciate and understand both the wide variety of types of institutions that make up postsecondary education in the United States and the multiple goals of education within a democracy.

A merger with the Labor Department would only exacerbate the worst aspects of the deeply flawed agency under Betsy DeVos.
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Higher-ed lawyers are still on edge after a chaotic 2017 filled with high-profile protests and tensions surrounding controversial speakers.

General counsels adapt to a new normal of unrest and scrutiny.
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Faculty members of color, Rahuldeep Gill says, are “hypervisible when they needed us to be in glossy brochures and invisible when it came to our needs.”

Putting principles into practice takes leadership, resources, and commitment. These colleges are using multistage anti-bias procedures to shake up the status quo.
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