By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. The Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics has revamped its database of college athletics finances and found that the Football Bowl Subdivision, the most competitive of Division I institutions, took in more than $8.3 billion in revenue in 2017. More...
U of La Verne Cancels Classes After Racial Threats
By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. Officials at the University of La Verne, a private, Hispanic-serving institution in California, are pledging more resources for diversity and to listen to the campus after a backpack was set on fire in a student’s car in what is believed to be a racially related incident. More...
A Tough Balance
By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. As President Trump says colleges ignore free speech, University of Tennessee at Knoxville cites the First Amendment as a reason not to expel students for blackface. In protest of that decision, students engage in form of protest Trump repeatedly questions. More...
Even More White Supremacist Fliers
By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. The Anti-Defamation League found more than 300 verified incidents of white nationalist propaganda on college campuses last year. More...
How Dormitories Have Evolved
By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. How have residential spaces for college students changed? An art historian discusses her new book on the topic. More...
Can Chapel Hill Take a Joke With a Point?
By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. University removed a student's satire website on race relations -- and restored it only after faced with legal pressure. More...
Letter: 'Racial Profiling Harms Science'
By Elizabeth Redden. A letter published in Science Thursday from several groups of Chinese or Chinese American scientists registers concerns about what the writers describe as “the recent political rhetoric and policies that single out students and scholars of Chinese descent working in the United States as threats to U.S. national interests.” More...
Compromising Conference Locations
By Elizabeth Redden. Members of Asian studies group debate whether to continue holding conferences in Asia after India barred Pakistanis from participating in a conference in New Delhi. More...
Professor Suspended After Criticizing China’s Leadership
By Elizabeth Redden. A constitutional law professor who wrote a series of essays critical of China’s leadership has been suspended from teaching at Tsinghua University, one of China’s leading universities, the Financial Times reported. More...
Suggestions to Counter Academic Freedom Threats From China
By Elizabeth Redden. Human Rights Watch on Thursday released a 12-point code of conduct to help colleges counter Chinese government efforts to undermine academic freedom abroad. The proposed code of conduct is based on interviews with more than 100 academics, graduate students and administrators at universities in Australia, Canada, France, the United Kingdom and the United States. More...