The former Sacramento State provost will try to stabilize the slumping state university as the Board searches for a permanent leader.

Charles McMicken's name, which adorns its main campus building, 'betrays academic values' and symbolizes 'the university's failure to commit fully to the principles of diversity and inclusion that it professes.'

President and professor say the debate over transgender athletes illustrates a larger problem: jumping to partisan conclusions based on isolated incidents taken out of context.