The University of Virginia agreed to a settlement with the Trump administration that will pause investigations over allegedly illegal diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
By Josh Moody
22 October
A growing number of institutions are censoring faculty speech and instruction through murky verbal directives that sow fear and confusion. Can they be enforced?
By Emma Whitford
22 October
The University of Virginia is the first public, and Southern, institution to publicly turn down the administrations Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.
After the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill refused to proffer faculty course materials in response to an open-records request, UNC Greensboro officials made the opposite decision.
By Emma Whitford
17 October
Institutions and advocates took issue with the proposals vague language and lack of privacy safeguards as well as the vast time and effort needed to collect the required data.
The Trump administration is trying to extort universities to submit to its control. To defend the university against such overreach is to affirm a broad constitutional tradition that limits state power over institutions devoted to truth and justice, writes Adam Sitze
