By Nick Roll. Another academic association has dropped Texas as a location to host its conferences. The Public Philosophy Network’s 2018 conference will take place in Boulder, Colo., in February, instead of Denton, Tex., where it was originally scheduled. More...

By Nick Roll. Leaked Google memo, described as an “anti-diversity screed,” reminds many women in STEM fields of the challenges that remain not just in industry, but in academe. More...

By Nick Roll. Cost of Columbia’s new graduate degree in data journalism slammed by journalists.
For those with an extra $147,514 lying around, there is a new a master of science in data journalism from Columbia University’s School of Journalism. More...

By Nick Roll. Some of those photographed in Charlottesville are students at various colleges, which are now being called on to denounce -- or in some cases expel -- those pictured. More...

By Nick Roll. The gathering of white supremacists, white nationalists and neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend originated -- at least on the surface -- from the groups’ opposition to the planned removal of a Confederate monument to Robert E. Lee in the college town. More...

By Nick Roll. Many women in STEM fields, for example, have cited discrimination and discriminatory attitudes as hardships they face in academia and in the private sector, and a new paper adds another factor to the mix: feminine norms, and how women perceive and adhere to femininity. More...

By Nick Roll. A statue of Robert E. Lee was vandalized at Duke University sometime in the night between Wednesday and Thursday. The statue of Lee is one of 10 statues that adorn the Duke chapel, which are drawn from figures in Protestant and Methodist traditions, as well as the American South. The vandalism -- the statue’s face was damaged, and its nose chipped off -- comes as tensions are rising around Confederate monuments and white supremacy’s role in America in the past and the present. More...

By Nick Roll. One says he was kicked out of Pensacola Christian after showing up to the Robert E. Lee statue after the protest with a Confederate flag. Another says he is leaving Boston U over threats for having attended. More...

By Nick Roll. Amid renewed push against Confederate monuments, Washington and Lee University says being named after the Confederacy’s top military leader reflects institutional history. Others see idolatry. More...

By Nick Roll. Essay by law professors at Penn and San Diego asserts that “all cultures are not equal,” decries modern culture, birth control, “inner-city blacks” and “anti-assimilation” Latino immigrants. Many at Penn are demanding the university speak out. More...