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Jeffrey S. Flier is the Higginson Professor of Physiology and Medicine and a co-president of the Council on Academic Freedom at Harvard. A recent policy decision by the American Association of ...

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Roth is president of Wesleyan University. His most recent book is The Student: A Short History. At least since the 1800s, colleges and universities in the United States have emphasized their civic ...

C olleges are entering what is likely to be their greatest crisis since the McCarthy period. We have lost public confidence, and the Trump administration has made clear that business as usual is no ...

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Academic Notice – it is not a phrase Boilermakers and their families want or plan to hear. Being placed on academic notice is a notification from the university that we are concerned about your ...