Education

Having witnessed social media’s potential to carry professors’ statements far and wide, higher-education officials in Colorado and Kansas recently have moved to limit what messages take such a journey. They have argued that they are simply trying to protect their institutions, but their actions have raised the question of whether risk-averse definitions of academic freedom

Two years ago, Southeastern Oklahoma State University was having an identity crisis. Or rather, an imagery crisis.

The university had adopted a new nickname in 2006, the Savage Storm, in place of the Savages, after the National Collegiate Athletic Association enacted a policy banning “hostile and abusive” mascots, nicknames or imagery at NCAA championships — a

Racial tensions certainly are never absent from campuses. But this fall has seen a number of incidents — most notably charges that white students harassed a black student at San Jose State University for months — that shocked some.

The National Council of the American Studies Association announced Wednesday that it has unanimously endorsed a boycott of Israeli universities and other Israeli institutions — and urged its members to vote to make the boycott official policy of the association.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Faced with mounting evidence that get-tough policies in schools are leading to arrest records, low academic achievement and high dropout rates that especially affect