I n the fall of 2023, as pressure was ramping up on the University of Pennsylvania over antisemitism concerns from students, ...

Others, such as Brown, Cornell, and Stanford are now following suit, while many other institutions have chosen to continue or ...

University leaders in the United States are slashing the humanities left and right. If you take what they say at face value, ...

The government’s missives sought to “substantially alter the legal obligations of schools and educators” without following ...

For 15 years, I’ve guided college students through the deeply human work of personal narrative, helping them excavate ...

Since before Donald Trump’s second inauguration, higher-education leaders have grappled with how to respond to his criticisms ...

Historians are in the storytelling trade. It’s time we told a better narrative about the relevance of our discipline. Our ...

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Correction (Aug. 11, 2025, 11:18 a.m.): A previous version of this article paraphrased Caplan as saying that the Trump ...

For the past few years, I’ve taught an environmental-humanities course called “Witnessing Climate Change.” I’m a literary scholar and writer, so it’s mostly a writing co ...

The federal government found that UCLA had abided antisemitism, invoking a civil-rights term that experts say is easy to misuse.

A draft rule would bar scientists funded by the agency from collecting data about gender identity, following other steps the ...