West, D-Dallas, asked the bill's author, Sen. Brandon Creighton, R-Conroe, whether voluntary training would be allowed under the bill. Creighton said "the bill specifically restricts against mandatory training. As long as there is no mandatory training, then you're in compliance with the bill." In 2020, the NCAA created a new requirement for member institutions: every college or […]
Most anti-CRT legislation targets K12 and higher education, a new report by CRT Forward suggests. As a result, faculty and school leadership is walking on eggshells over the thought of being sued by parents in the community.
Following Florida's TikTok ban across its public universities, at least five states have also issued similar restrictions, whether for its state colleges or universities—or both. Tennessee is about to make it six, pending the signature of the governor.
The yearly rate of students considering withdrawing continues to climb, with emotional stress the main culprit. Those who fare best: students who report supportive faculty and peers as well as access to adequate campus resources.
With more than 200 lab instruments available at a student's fingertips from CMU's revolutionary cloud lab, the only limit to what a scientist can do is dictated by their own ingenuity. "We are automating science," Dean Rebecca Doerge says.
FIRE's recent report of almost 1,500 discovers faculty are more likely to self-censor their academic publications more than social scientists feared writing something controversial in the 1950s.
PEN America and the American Council on Education (ACE) teamed up to provide campus leaders with viable strategies to fend off legislative attacks and leverage media relations and campus stakeholders in their defense.
Despite pressure from at least 19 state governors banning TikTok use on public university campuses, the majority of young college students are thinking the same thing: "lol, no."
From "devious licks" to vandalizing school property, more districts are becoming aware of the dangerous TikTok trends that students can't get enough of. Then there's the fact that it can cause massive cybersecurity issues.
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Freedom (FIRE) selected these institutions based on some of their head-scratching decisions such as circumventing a teacher's academic freedom, removing funding from a LGBTQ+ events, instating policies that would streamline firing tenured professors, and others.
