Indiana Law Requires Professors to Promote ‘Intellectual Diversity’ or Face Penalties

A brand new regulation in Indiana requires professors in public universities to foster a tradition of “mental range” or face disciplinary actions, together with termination for even these with tenure, the most recent in an effort by Republicans to say extra management over what’s taught in lecture rooms. The regulation connects the job standing of … Read more

After Oakland University Upset Kentucky, Students Bask in the NCAA Spotlight

Earlier than Thursday evening, if you weren’t acquainted with Oakland College, you weren’t alone. Not removed from the campus, even locals at a Detroit bar, who had been watching the staff shock No. 3 seed Kentucky within the first spherical of the N.C.A.A. match, had been asking if “that Oakland was in California” or the … Read more

College Basketball Coach Turns Worst Coaching Job Into Slam Dunk at Salkehatchie

Slightly over a yr in the past, the College of South Carolina Salkehatchie posted a job opening for its males’s basketball coach. It may need been a single sentence: functions being accepted for the worst faculty teaching job within the nation. The college, a junior faculty at a rural outpost about an hour’s drive west … Read more