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Newsletter Archive
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March 23, 2023Academe Today: Meet the Stanford Professor at the Center of the Math Wars
Stanford puts diversity official on leave in aftermath of disrupted speech; emotional stress continues to weigh on college students; and more. -
March 22, 2023
Academe Today: Free-Speech Surveys Show a Common Worry on Campus -- Peer Pressure, Not Professors
President cancels student group’s drag show; despite attacks, Black studies holds steady; unexpected promotions; your letters; and more. -
March 21, 2023
Academe Today: Students Shouldn’t Always Choose Higher-Paying Majors (Opinion)
New data on campus research space; whether minority-serving institutions really are; N.C. lawmakers want details on diversity training; and more. -
March 20, 2023
Academe Today: Fla. Professor Loses Job After Complaint About His Lesson on Racial Justice
Our newly updated tracker of DEI legislation; combating campus tribalism; unions are treated with contempt on campus; New Mexico shooting; and more. -
March 17, 2023
Academe Today: International Students Often Struggle Academically. Here’s How a University Helped.
Faculty members still aren’t sure what to make of ChatGPT; a ChatGPT primer and a backgrounder; teaching graduate students to teach; and more. -
March 16, 2023
Academe Today: DEI Goals Are Worthy. Campus DEI Bureaucracies Fail Them. (Opinion)
DEI efforts are poorly funded and ineffective, survey finds; colleges can bring world to class; new effort aims to expand campus child care; and more. -
March 15, 2023
Academe Today: How Florida’s Controversial DEI Statement Came Together
When mentors fail us; diversity dean draws fire after Stanford students disrupt a judge’s speech; the lost art of academic conversation; and more. -
March 14, 2023
Academe Today: Crises Continue to Mount at New Mexico State U.
Distraction, new and old; what a culture of well-being looks like on campus; more on fear, rage, and anguish; your letters; and more. -
March 13, 2023
Academe Today: Why Evidence-Based Teaching Doesn’t Always Go as Planned
Down and out at the AHA meeting; Temple grad-student strike yields raises and rifts; Texas Republicans have big plans to reform higher ed; and more. -
March 10, 2023
Academe Today: Bills in 13 States Would Restrict Colleges’ DEI Efforts
Explore our interactive map on anti-DEI legislation; Education Dept. rethinks student-recruiting guidance; a collegewide learning language; and more.
