Michigan Prof’s Only Offense: Humanizing Palestinians
Shamai Leibowitz Informed Comment I am a Jewish American-Israeli, and a veteran of the IDF. But according to the University of Michigan administration, I am someone who needs to be…
As More Universities Agree To Immigration Enforcement On Campus, Students Are Fighting Back
Julia Luz Betancourt for Prism She was beginning her spring semester as a second-year law student and paralegal when she received the news: The immigration clinic where she volunteered would…
A Court Ordered Trump’s Department of Education to Roll Back Its Anti-DEI Efforts. Why haven’t Universities Reversed Course?
Last month, the department conceded that it could not make universities’ race-conscious efforts illegal, but universities nationwide have yet to reinstate their diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts Meghnad Bose and…
The Shakedown: Trump’s DOJ Pressured Lawyers to “Find” Evidence That UCLA Had Illegally Tolerated Antisemitism
Trump’s DOJ threatened UCLA with discrimination lawsuits, demanded more than $1 billion in fines and pressed for changes that had nothing to do with antisemitism.
Teachers and Unions Fight Back as UC Campuses Prepare to Fuel Trump’s Witch Hunt
A coalition of University of California faculty, students, staff, and labor unions is suing the Trump administration.
New Report Details Police Repression of Palestine Activism at UCLA
According to a new report, a total of $12.3 million was spent on "managing" UCLA’s protests around the school's Gaza solidarity encampment last year. Additionally, there were over 200 arrests,…
Universities in Dark Times: Beyond the Plague of Neoliberal Fascism
Neoliberal ideology, marked by the irrational belief in the ability of markets to solve all problems, has deeply infiltrated public life, depoliticized critical issues and shifted education’s focus to workforce…
Joseph Massad Responds to Fabrications and Lies About Him in Congress
By Ali Abunimah / The Electronic Intifada On 17 April, Minouche Shafik, the president of Columbia University, appeared before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, the latest episode…
Israel Has Formed a Task Force to Carry Out Covert Campaigns at US Universities
A major Israeli news site says Israel’s foreign affairs and diaspora affairs ministries are behind the operation.
One of US’s Largest Public Universities Could See First Strike in Its 257 Years
Unionized academic workers at Rutgers University have organized across hierarchies and are preparing to go on strike.
Free Speech and Academic Freedom in the American Corporate University
By David Schultz / CounterPunch Free speech and academic freedom are under attack in American higher education. From the right the allegation is that wokeness and political correctness have taken…
Ralph Nader: Students, Campuses and Dominant Corporate Power
Students need to think about civic engagement and the corporate power over the educational institutions that the students attend.
Erwin Chemerinsky: What Free Speech Looks Like on Campus
The Dean of Berkeley's Law School discusses his new book, "Free Speech on Campus," and the limitations of the First Amendment.