Lawmakers worsen the campus free-speech crisis; a quarter system complicates students' job hunt; why lottery-based admissions is a bad idea; and more.
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Thirteen scholars say they’ll cut ties with the university’s ethnicity, race, and migration program, which they say has been stifled by a lack of resources and stature, despite a $50-million effort to diversity the faculty. PREMIUM
Putting principles into practice takes leadership, resources, and commitment. These colleges are using multistage anti-bias procedures to shake up the status quo. PREMIUM
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By Katherine Mangan
The national debate has become “a deeply partisan feud, with each side trying to catch the other in transgressive acts that can be amplified to rile up the faithful.”
Because they finish classes about a month behind their peers on the semester calendar, critics say they are at an unexpected disadvantage in their job search.
