Scholars Decry Law School's About-Face on New Dean
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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 13 -- Scholars across the political spectrum protested what they called an assault on academic freedom after the University of California at Irvine withdrew a job offer from a liberal professor who wrote an op-ed criticizing the Bush administration.
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In the long-running debate on affirmative action, Scott E. Page, a professor at the University of Michigan, is a fresh voice.
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At Harvard, some faculty and activists have been troubled that the universityâs Carr Center for Human Rights Policy helped revise the counterinsurgency field manual.
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The Harvard Law School faculty has voted unanimously to overhaul its first-year curriculum by focusing more on complex problem-solving, international law, and modern law-making by government bodies and administrative agencies, marking a significant departure from more than a century of traditional legal education.
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Critics say universities' role as society's bulwarks of free intellectual exploration is being jeopardized.
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Jennifer Harrisâs discrimination lawsuit against Penn State Coach Rene Portland didnât simply open a dialogue nationwide, it also unveiled the sordid side of prejudice at work on the N.C.A.A. level.
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Lawyers for a Georgia school district  and a group of parents clashed on Monday over the  constitutionality of placing stickers that challenge the theory  of evolution on textbooks.
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Underperforming colleges face a tough new intervention regime under plans outlined by the education secretary.
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Longtime Business Week editor-in-chief Stephen Shepard is expected to be named the first dean of the City University&#39;s planned Graduate School of Journalism.
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Colleges around the country are closely watching for a key ruling in a bitter legal battle between Princeton University and a disgruntled alumnus who claims the school misspent the millions his family left the school in 1961.
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A lawyer for a Harvard graduate student accused of stabbing a teenager to death said Monday the scholar was defending himself from an "unrelenting" beating, but prosecutors called him a drunken aggressor who had his knife out even before the fight began.
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Lawyers for a Georgia school district and a group of parents clashed on Monday over the constitutionality of placing stickers that challenge the theory of evolution on textbooks.
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To say American is in search of an athletic identity is an understatement as the school is operating under an interim president and without an athletic director.
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As a law student, Antonio Calabrese envisioned himself becoming a hard-nosed, Perry Mason-like defense attorney.
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Michael Jackson, frequently savaged in the tabloid press, was picked apart by more rarified critics this week as scholars gathered for a conference on the pop star at Yale University.
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University students are warned over possible legal action for criticising lecturers on two websites.
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NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J.  Â A lawyer who represented a Rutgers University women's basketball player complained to the school that her coach pressured the athlete to drop a lawsuit against Don Imus over the radio host's sexist and racist remarks about the team.