New York Wants To Scrap Testing Requirements While School Spending Soars This week, the state's educational leaders moved to eliminate Regents exam requirements for high school students. Reason · Sep 17
CJ Roberts and the Smithsonian Bypass Congress To Build New Latino Museum On the same day that he accuses President Trump of bypassing Congress to build a new structure, his own entity bypasses Congress to build a new structure. Reason · Sep 2
Law School Recommended Against Student's Bar Admission, Partly for Alleged "Celebration" of Charlie Kirk Assassination in Law School Clinic The student sued seeking to undo the reprimand and report to the bar, but a federal court concluded that this particular remedy is barred by state sovereign immunity under the Eleventh Amendment/ Reason · May 22
Universities of Wisconsin president defies board’s demand to resign or be fired ‘I do not believe my resignation at this time is in the best interests of either the Universities of Wisconsin or the state of Wisconsin,’ Rothman said The Independent UK · Apr 2
Changes to Native tuition waiver could expand access to higher education for thousands Montana's university system has expanded its Native American college tuition waiver, and the move reshapes who qualifies and who pays The Independent UK · Mar 27
Texas Tech System limits how race and gender can be taught, says faculty could face discipline for noncompliance Tech, now the second Texas public university system to add similar teaching restrictions, had earlier directed faculty to follow state and federal guidance recognizing only two sexes. The Texas Tribune · Dec 2, 2025
Univ. of South Dakota Withdraws Planned Firing of Art Professor for Vulgar Tweet Calling Charlie Kirk a "Hate Spreading Nazi" From today's notice of dismissal, filed by the plaintiff's lawyerin Hook v. Rave: On October 3, defendants wisely abandoned their… The post Univ. of South Dakota Withdraws Planned Firing of Art Professor for Vulgar Tweet Calling Charlie Kirk a "Hate Spreading Nazi" appeared first on Reason.com. Reason · Oct 6, 2025
Court Blocks Impending Firing of South Dakota Art Professor for Vulgar Tweet Calling Charlie Kirk a "Hate Spreading Nazi" From today's decision by Judge Karen Schreier (D.S.D.) in Hook v. Rave: Hook is a tenured Professor of Art at… The post Court Blocks Impending Firing of South Dakota Art Professor for Vulgar Tweet Calling Charlie Kirk a "Hate Spreading Nazi" appeared first on Reason.com. Reason · Sep 24, 2025
FIRE Files Challenge to Texas A&M Drag Show Ban From the motion for a TRO and preliminary injunction in Texas A&M Queer Empowerment Council v. Mahomes, just filed yesterday… The post FIRE Files Challenge to Texas A&M Drag Show Ban appeared first on Reason.com. Reason · Mar 6, 2025
A University President Accused of Squandering Public Money Resigns in Exchange for a $2 Million Payout Western New Mexico University's Board of Regents approved the severance package for Joseph Shepard after a state audit highlighted $364,000 in "wasteful" and "improper" spending. Reason · Dec 31, 2024
“Always go out on top”: Texas A&M Chancellor John Sharp will retire June 2025 Sharp leaves after having transformed the institution, embedding it into state government, expanding its reach and boosting its academic and athletic reputation. The Texas Tribune · Jul 1, 2024
Pronouns and tribal affiliations are now forbidden in South Dakota public university employee emails A new South Dakota Board of Regents policy keeps employees from including their gender pronouns in school email signatures and other correspondence The Independent UK · May 24, 2024
Revisiting the protest movements at the University of Texas Protests have been a century-long tradition at UT-Austin, and The Daily Texan, the student newspaper, has faithfully covered and recorded these significant historical events. The Texas Tribune · May 16, 2024
Hall Pass: Your Ticket to Understanding School Board Politics, Edition #93 Welcome to Hall Pass, a newsletter written to keep you plugged into the conversations driving school board politics and governance. Ballotpedia · Jan 17, 2024
Reason · Dec 29, 2023 UW-La Crosse Chancellor Fired for Posting Porn Videos of Himself with His Wife The N.Y. Times (Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs & Dan Simmons) reports: The chancellor of a state university in Wisconsin was fired this week after posting pornographic videos with his wife online. The University of Wisconsin System's Board of Regents unanimously decided to dismiss the chancellor, Joe Gow, who had led the University…
The Texas Tribune · Nov 13, 2023 Texas A&M Interim President Mark Welsh will get nod to keep permanent position A&M System Chancellor John Sharp will recommend Welsh, a retired Air Force general, as the sole finalist for the job at a Board of Regents meeting later this week. Welsh has held the position in the interim since July.
The Texas Tribune · Sep 18, 2023 Texas A&M System’s guidance on the state’s DEI ban shows compliance might be a hard needle to thread The guidance asks universities in the system to avoid using the acronym DEI on their websites and walk a fine line between organizing events that “support diversity in a general way” but don’t “promote preferential treatment of any particular group.”
Reason · Aug 16, 2023 Arizona's Public Universities Drop Controversial DEI Statements for Job Applicants It may be part of a larger reassessment of subjecting all areas of life to ideological tests.
The Texas Tribune · Jul 29, 2023 Texas A&M regents could offer a settlement to the journalism professor at center of hiring controversy The system’s board also plans to formally appoint an interim president after Katherine Banks resigned last week following news that the school changed its job offer to Kathleen McElroy, a Black journalism professor, after outcries from conservative groups.
Reason · May 31, 2023 Georgia Campus Carry Rules Upheld Against State Constitutional Separation of Powers Challenge From today's unanimous Georgia Supreme Court decision in Knox v. State, written by Justice Ellington: Five University System of Georgia ("USG") professors filed suit to block a 2017 statutory amendment that removed public colleges and other public postsecondary educational institutions from the statutory definition of "school safety zone." Before the…
Ballotpedia · May 24, 2023 Nevada voters to decide on amendment regarding constitutional status of Board of Regents An amendment to remove the constitutional status of the Board of Regents in Nevada, an elected executive agency responsible for managing the state’s system of higher education, will appear on the ballot in 2024 for Nevada voters.