Declining math skills are a real problem nationally, but UC San Diego is an unusual case—and other California colleges offer a range of promising models for rethinking calculus requirements.

By Pamela Burdman and Marcelo Almora Rios

The legislatures in all 15 states that passed higher education censorship bills are Republican-controlled. Measures range from curricular control to curtailing faculty governance.

Efforts to censor Plato over his treatment of gender have a long history.

By Todd W. Reeser

Administrators say the professor teaching the course did not specify when and how race, gender and sexuality might come up in class. The professor says that would be impossible.

Just buying an institutional subscription to ChatGPT or Claude won’t ensure students have all the different AI tools they need.

By Kenneth Sumner

A&M officials have also instructed English faculty not to teach books in core classes that have major plotlines concerning gay, lesbian or transgender identities.

Instead of quiet quitting the take-home essay, we need a whole new model for writing instruction.

By Carla Arnell

For each of their courses, faculty must say whether they “advocate for” or “promote” certain race or gender identities.