Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2025

The court determined the directive potentially contradicts established legal protections for academic freedom and may violate constitutional rights by imposing vague restrictions on curriculum and programming. Gilles Bissonnette, legal director of the ACLU of New Hampshire, emphasized the importance of the ruling for educational inclusivity.

Education 264

Education Compliance Inclusion Curriculum 264

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 3, 2024

This dynamic not only informs how we advocate for students but also shapes how we collaborate with faculty, staff, and other leaders to build systems that uplift every learner. Rather than constraining educators, AB 705 lays the groundwork for new strategies—like culturally relevant pedagogy, curriculum revisions, and embedded supports.

Student success 283

Student success Success Compliance Students 283

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2025

The report notes that the original protections the law intended to provideensuring adequate investment in instructionhave largely been made redundant by other mechanisms, including faculty unions, the Faculty Obligation Number (which requires 75% of credit instruction be taught by full-time instructors), and the Student-Centered Funding Formula.

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Student success Community college Success Instruction 179

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 30, 2024

Support for Students with Disabilities: Ensure that students with disabilities receive appropriate accommodations and support, with a focus on equity and inclusion rather than mere compliance with legal mandates.

Education 58

Education Students Inclusion Instruction 58

EAB

MAY 25, 2023

Dr. Louis Slimak , Associate Provost for Curriculum and Assessment at West Virginia University (WVU), has done extensive work to overhaul the WVU’s program review process—and its culture around data more broadly—since his arrival in 2016. We’re also standing up a dedicated Edify dashboard for our faculty hiring process.

Literacy 52

Literacy Faculty Communication Compliance 52

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 13, 2025

In what legal experts are calling a landmark case for academic freedom, Harvard faculty and the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, alleging unconstitutional attempts to control campus speech and governance through threatened funding cuts. Nikolas Bowie, Louis D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 4, 2025

It demanded academic departments be ideologically reshaped, student organizations dismantled, and faculty policed for anything considered activism. That student protests against war, colonialism, or genocide are threats to campus life, while administrative compliance with authoritarian demands is somehow neutral.

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Compliance Literacy Equity Curriculum 263