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Yesterday, the University of Pennsylvania completed its years-long end run around academic freedom to punish law professor Amy Wax. FIRE’s working hard to ensure Penn’s dubious tactics won’t become the new playbook for private universities, which, unlike public universities, are not bound by the First Amendment. Long under pressure to “do something” about the controversial…
Convening in Toulouse ahead of the international EAIE 2024 conference, Universities Canada and France Universités signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to strengthen the two countries’ higher education sectors and communities. “The partnerships and insights gained through this agreement will help Canadian universities collaborate across Europe to tackle some of the biggest global challenges…
The landscape of higher education is evolving rapidly, driven in large by part by the ability of artificial intelligence (AI) to reshape the way colleges and universities operate, from personalized learning experiences to enhancing administrative efficiency. To help industry professionals gain a better understanding of the opportunities and considerations surrounding the implementation of AI on…
It’s no secret that America’s colleges and universities struggle to uphold a foundational constitutional right: Freedom of expression. FIRE’s 2025 College Free Speech Rankings show that roughly a quarter of students think it is not clear that their administration protects free speech on campus. And if a free speech controversy were to erupt? More than a…
BALTIMORE, Sept. 26 2024 —The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Maryland, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, and the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University filed an amicus brief last night in support of University of Maryland Students for Justice in Palestine’s lawsuit, which challenges the university’s ban on all student-led expressive…
Can free speech and content moderation on social media coexist? Jonathan Rauch and Ren?e DiResta discuss the complexities of content moderation on social media platforms. They explore how platforms balance free expression with the need to moderate harmful content and the consequences of censorship in a digital world. Jonathan Rauch is a senior fellow at…
A recent survey revealed that 78% of teachers believe AI can significantly enhance creativity in the classroom, yet many feel underprepared to integrate it meaningfully into their practice. Take Ana, an English Language teacher in São Paulo. Ana was initially wary of AI, fearing it might depersonalize her approach to teaching. However, after experimenting with an…
It’s finally happened. After years of studying higher education and teaching thousands of students, I’m now the parent of a high school senior who’s running the so-called college admissions gauntlet. Earlier this month I attended a parent meeting at his Philadelphia public school and listened as an experienced educator told us, “At some point during…
EU countries including Germany, the Czech Republic and Poland are paving the way for more intled opportunities as the bloc looks to benefit from international students, delegates at last week’s EAIE conference 2024 heard. More than 40,000 of Poland’s nearly 150,000 international students are studying in English, said the country’s undersecretary of state in the…
Dive Brief: While graduate degrees yield higher incomes overall, ever-rising costs and higher debt loads make postgraduate education a “risky” bet for students, according to a study released Wednesday by Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce. The report found that graduate degree costs for students tripled from 2000 to 2020 while the median…