Should you ever write something that a fair number of people read, or say anything out loud to an audience of more than 10 people, somebody will be upset by your words. During the past 10 years, people have increasingly come to believe that every random stranger owes them a duty of inoffensiveness. Hate mail…
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Marymount Manhattan College, in New York City, has struck a deal to merge with Northeastern University, in Boston. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The boards of both institutions approved the merger agreement, which…
Dawn Leaks RagsdaleDawn Leaks Ragsdale has been named executive director of the Center for Inclusive Growth for Yale University and the City of New Haven. She served as executive director of the New Haven-based nonprofit Collab. She holds a bachelor’s degree in information technology from Bay Path College as well as a master’s in communications…
(Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Alito Still Keeping Up The Impartial Act: Why stop blaming the wife if it keeps working? Prepare For The TikTok Showdown!: The major free speech case is on the fast track. Adios, Jenna Ellis!: Have fun with that suspension. So, What Are You Doing After This?: Lawyers share advice on…
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Union members at the University of California’s Los Angeles and Davis campuses went on strike Tuesday over the system’s handling of pro-Palestinian protests and counterprotesters. UCLA and UC Davis union members are joining fellow UAW…
Before 2011, Amy Chua would have described herself as a “mild mannered professor.” She was teaching law at Yale University and raising her two daughters. “Nobody knew who I was, I had never been on major TV — I didn’t even have a Facebook,” says Chua. “And suddenly, overnight, there were headlines: ‘Most Hated Mother…
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The government cannot jail journalists for asking a question. But local officials in Laredo, Texas, did just that, arresting citizen journalist Priscilla Villarreal for exercising her core First Amendment right to ask government officials for information as part of her local news reporting. The officials relied on a criminal statute, never enforced locally in the law’s…
Tim Eckenfels, head of IH Sydney Training Services, spoke with The PIE at the IH Directors conference, and said the fact the draft framework is being directed more at public universities is about the “most foolish thing the government can do” from its own cost perspective. “It’s been all the middle tier and lower tier…
SCOTUS NEWS By Amy Howe on May 29, 2024 at 4:42 pm Justice Samuel Alito, his wife Martha-Ann behind him, during his confirmation hearings before the Senate. (Rob Crandall via Shutterstock) Two weeks after the New York Times first reported that an upside-down American flag – popular among the “Stop the Steal” movement – flew…