Indiana University President Pamela Whitten told faculty she would not resign during two listening sessions with faculty leaders from the College of Arts and Sciences (COAS) last week. Whitten also defended IU and Indiana State Police’s response to the Dunn Meadow encampments while stating there was no actual threat of violence. The listening sessions come […]
ATLANTA — President Joe Biden will deliver the commencement address at Morehouse College on Sunday morning, his most direct engagement with college students since the start of the Israel-Hamas war and a key opportunity for him to engage with a group of voters that data suggests is softening on him: young, Black men. A White […]
Morehouse College faculty voted on Thursday to confer an honorary doctorate on Joe Biden during its upcoming graduation ceremony on Sunday, for which he plans to deliver the commencement address. The vote to confer the honorary doctorate was a 50-38 decision, with about a dozen faculty members abstaining ahead of the planned visit, which has […]
ATLANTA — Morehouse College’s faculty voted in favor of conferring an honorary doctorate on President Joe Biden during its upcoming graduation ceremony, where he is slated to deliver the commencement address. But dozens of faculty members either voted against the honor or abstained from voting, amid frustrations with some of the president’s policies and the […]
CHICAGO – University of Chicago faculty will host a teach-in and rally at the Hyde Park campus Main Quad where students set up a protest encampment in solidarity with Gaza earlier this month. The University of Chicago Faculty for Justice in Palestine said the rally is meant to honor the Palestinian people on the 76th […]
Belmont University broadened its criteria for hiring faculty and staff “regardless of religious faith,” effectively opening the former Southern Baptist-affiliated college to Muslim, Jewish, and other non-Christian faculty. The decision, a revised nondiscrimination policy, is both a big step forward for Belmont and a response to ongoing changes accompanying an increasingly diverse student body. It’s […]
The Louisiana Senate gave final legislative approval to a bill that would provide more lucrative retirement savings options to thousands of state college and university employees. (Allison Allsop/Louisiana Illuminator) The Louisiana Senate gave final legislative approval to a bill that would provide more lucrative retirement savings options to thousands of state college and university employees. House […]
ATLANTA — A group of Morehouse College faculty members are pushing to stop the school from conferring an honorary doctorate on President Joe Biden at its commencement ceremony on May 19. Morehouse President David Thomas met virtually with faculty members Wednesday to discuss the issue. “A majority of the comments were opposed to an honorary […]
A group that organized pro-Palestinian protests on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus last week is calling on faculty and teaching assistants to withhold grades to “demand amnesty” for students facing disciplinary actions. It was unclear Monday morning how many instructors are joining the call to withhold grades, though university leaders told deans and department chairs that […]
ST. CLOUD — St. Cloud State University leaders plan to cut about 100 programs and 57 faculty to help balance the chronic budget deficit that also led to last year’s sweeping cuts. Larry Lee, acting president, announced the proposed cuts to a stunned campus community Monday afternoon. Administrators are aiming for the university to lean […]
CHICAGO — Faculty members at the University of Chicago are coming out in support of student protestors Monday. About 120 faculty and staff stood in solidarity with student protestors during a press conference. Monday marks the eighth day of encampment on the Main Quad of the campus by pro-Palestine protesters. It’s one of several around the country […]
Faculty from Indiana University’s College of Arts and Sciences (COAS) – the university’s largest college by student enrollment – overwhelmingly called for the Board of Trustees to terminate the employment of President Pamela Whitten and Provost Rahul Shrivastav during a college-wide vote on May 1. More than 75% of the college’s faculty participated, with 911 […]