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Student voting offers a special test and opportunity for American institutions of higher education, which are in the midst of an authoritarian assault not seen since…

The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights, which is supposed to protect students from discrimination based on race, ethnicity, sex, age and disability status, isn’t what…

A British university complied with a demand from Beijing to halt research about human rights abuses in China, leading to a major project being dropped, the…

The U.S. Department of Education on Tuesday took the next step in firing more than 250 office for civil rights employees who have been in professional…

Kim Richey recently served as a senior chancellor in the Florida Department of Education. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee The Senate voted this week…

The last U.S. Supreme Court term was among the most consequential in recent years for K-12 education, with the justices issuing major rulings on special education,…

People granted asylum will no longer be given “the golden ticket” of resettlement and family reunion rights, Keir Starmer said, amid deepening concerns from charities that…

Marc Maron, who wasn’t invited to perform at the Riyadh Comedy Festival, has spoken out against participation in the event, owing to Saudi Arabia’s appalling human…

In June, in an escalation of the Trump administration’s pressure on Harvard University to bow to its demands, a federal Office for Civil Rights announced that…

The Biden and Trump administrations have both stepped up enforcement of Title VI in the last two years. Photo illustration by Justin Morrison/Inside Higher Ed |…