Not sure if "everyone" knew these, but philosopher Dan Kaufman (Missouri State) is definitely on to something interesting about the evolution (or devolution) of cultural norms (in part due to the ...

If you're going to forcibly separate people from their family because they are ill, until tests clear them, then people simply won't disclose their conditon to the authorities, which will make things ...

Six plaintiffs joined [Stanford student] Kalea Woods ’20 in the class action lawsuit filed against Stanford and seven other universities implicated in the college admissions bribery scandal in an ...

This CHE article suggests as much: Experts on [the AAUP's] standards-setting Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure revised the definition of financial exigency in 2013. Under the previous ...

Philosopher Simon Kirchin, formerly of Kent, asked me to share the following: Further to previous announcements of plans, the University of Kent has decided to close its Department of Philosophy. It ...

Oxford's announcement is here. Some friends on FB were puzzled that the endowment wasn't used to create a new Chair. I suspect the explanation is that the White's Professorship was not endowed at all, ...

Section 230 of the ironically-named 1996 "Communications Decency Act" provides that: "No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any ...

...or a kind of pseudo-tenure, as Keith Whittington explains: Section 3(c) defines the property interest in tenure as a single year salary. This is designed to allow university to fire tenured faculty ...

UN chief Antonio Guterres warned nations Monday that he fears the likelihood of further escalation in the Russia-Ukraine conflict means the world is heading towards a "wider war".... Top of the list ...

A useful and realistic overview of what lies ahead for America regarding the pandemic Here, and it makes clear the costs of the criminal incompetence of the Trump Administration in failing to provide ...

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That's one of the apt points made by Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel (Penn) in this interview; his introductory remarks start around 2:30 and run about 12 minutes, followed by questions (I haven't watched his ...