By Scott Jaschik. California State University at Fresno announced late Tuesday that it would not punish a professor whose tweets calling the late first lady Barbara Bush racist prompted numerous calls for her firing -- although many experts on academic freedom said that there was no basis for doing so. More...

By Scott Jaschik. Richard Spencer, the white nationalist, has dropped his lawsuit against the University of Cincinnati. Spencer sued after the university said he could speak, but only during spring break and if he paid standard security fees. More...

By Scott Jaschik. In 2016, inflation-adjusted spending for academic humanities research decreased for the first time since 2007, the first year for which reliable data are available. Expenditures in 2016, approximately $435 million, were down slightly (less than 0.1 percent) from the year before. The data are from the Humanities Indicators, a project of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. More...

By Scott Jaschik. A faculty member's tweets -- and an incident that followed debate about them -- have set off discussions at Knox College about whether Jewish students and faculty members face hostility at the Illinois liberal arts college. More...

By Scott Jaschik. Jennifer Polk set off an interesting discussion on Twitter by noting that she thanked her favorite band in her Ph.D. dissertation acknowledgments and asking others for unusual thank-you notes they made when finishing their doctorates. More...

By Scott Jaschik. Warren Wilson sees success in part of strategy to make campus more welcoming to conservative students. Swarthmore expands recruiting. More...

By Scott Jaschik. Admissions leaders may be changing their attitudes about the appropriateness of looking at applicants' social media accounts, a new survey finds, with a large share saying they consider it legitimate to view applicants' social media postings. At the same time, only a minority are actually viewing them. And that minority may be shrinking. More...

By Scott Jaschik. Last week, Syracuse University first suspended and then expelled its chapter of Theta Tau after The Daily Orange published video of an initiation ceremony that featured members mocking black, Latino, Jewish and gay people and using slurs about all of them. More...

By Scott Jaschik. Philosopher discusses his new book about how Americans respond to frank discussions of racism -- and about harassment he received for an essay in The New York Times. More...

By Scott Jaschik. The push to end the dominance of the LSAT in law school admissions scored a big win last week. But the fight over the issue is far from over -- and some portrayals of last week's news may have overstated its immediate implications. More...