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Most schools are relying on existing policies that allow for individual accommodations. But some are also tapping into ...
Five faculty members have been selected for a 2025 Chancellor’s Fellowship recognizing their work to, in the words of the ...
To gauge how other higher ed institutions are working to allay undocumented students’ fear of ICE arrests, LAist reached out ...
The Academic Senate voted to endorse a statement outlining a list of shared values of higher education amid the Trump administration policies at its meeting Wednesday. The resolution passed by a vote ...
Senate President Karen Spilka wants her chamber to approve a statewide ban on cellphones in Massachusetts public schools.
This post was updated May 27 at 12:56 a.m. Tim Groeling, a professor of communication, will be the 2026-2027 chair of the UCLA Academic Senate. Senate Elections Commissioner Joseph Watson ...
Understanding academic freedom as a collective faculty responsibility provides a basis for protecting academic rights, Will Clark writes.
Republican governors this spring have signed into law a wave of laws targeting diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts, tenure, and struggling academic programs as part of a concerted effort to ...
This means that the president cannot dictate the procedural rules of the Academic Senate, as he appears to be trying to do.” Several members of the Academic Senate made similar arguments Monday.
The University of California Board of Regents approved Dr. Dennis Assanis as UC Santa Barbara’s sixth chancellor.
During announcements, Allison Butler, a representative from the Academic Matters Council, spoke to open the meeting. Her presentation, titled “Academic Matters Council: Policy work on Academic ...
The University of Oregon Senate has voted in favor of urging UO President John Karl Scholz to establish a Mutual Academic Defense Compact with other universities of the Big 10 Academic Alliance ...