NIH nominee may base funding on campus educational freedom

President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to run the Nationwide Institutes of Well being is contemplating one way or the other factoring campus educational freedom into how seemingly a college is to obtain analysis grants, unnamed sources instructed The Wall Road Journal. The NIH distributes giant sums of cash to establishments yearly. The NIH nominee—Dr. Jay Bhattacharya…

Many college say tutorial freedom is deteriorating

Practically 60 p.c of the roughly 1,100 respondents to an Inside Increased Ed/Hanover Analysis survey—carried out within the lead-up to final week’s election—strongly agreed that tutorial freedom in greater training is beneath menace. Throw in those that say they considerably agree it’s beneath menace, and the share grows to 91 p.c. Greater than 40 p.c stated their sense…

Exhibit cancellation an insult to educational freedom (opinion)

Maxiphoto/iStock/Getty Photos Plus In February I printed an essay decrying the abrupt cancellation of a significant artwork exhibit scheduled to open at Indiana College Bloomington’s Eskenazi Museum of Artwork. The long-planned exhibit, “Facilities of Vitality,” represented a retrospective of the work of famend Palestinian American artist (and IU alumna) Samia Halaby; the exhibit was to…

AFT launches push for tutorial freedom, job safety, entry

The American Federation of Lecturers, of which the American Affiliation of College Professors is an affiliate, is launching a $1 million marketing campaign to assist campus and statewide AFT/AAUP chapters in preventing for tutorial freedom, job safety and faculty prices. The multiyear effort will likely be known as Actual Options for Greater Schooling, AFT introduced in…

Instructor Tom: Freedom of Motion

When visiting Woodland Park for the primary time, and particularly our playground, many adults at first really feel disoriented.  Not solely are there dozens of youngsters racing about, shouting, bickering, and laughing, however at first blush the area — so in contrast to adult-oriented areas like workplaces, museums, and libraries — appears disorderly, even chaotic. Those…