What’s behind the push for “institutional neutrality”?

Within the two weeks after George Floyd’s 2020 homicide, greater than 200 U.S. schools and universities issued statements mentioning his identify, in line with a joint report from associations representing pupil affairs directors and variety officers. Most of the statements referenced discrimination towards African Individuals and structural racism. The teams ranked the messages and criticized…

Why grad colleges ought to push public scholarship (opinion)

Lyudinka/iStock/Getty Pictures Plus In case you’ve ever attended graduate college, you in all probability have an inventory of stuff you want your program had carried out higher—or not less than in a different way. A few of them could have been identifiable once you had been there, whereas others might need turn out to be…

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…

AP leaks immediate rating cancellations, digitization push

Final week, highschool college students all over the world obtained an electronic mail telling them their Superior Placement examination scores had been beneath evaluation for potential tutorial integrity violations—and, if corroborated, they could possibly be canceled. Many college students thought it was a phishing rip-off at first. In incredulous Reddit posts and panicked Tik Tok…