Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Connecticut lawmakers advanced a bill Thursday that would ban the state’s public and private colleges from using legacy admissions to give preferential treatment to applicants related to alumni. Lawmakers on the state’s higher education committee…
Dive Brief: Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb, a Republican, signed a bill into law Wednesday that will tie tenure at the state’s public colleges to whether professors promote intellectual diversity and free inquiry. Under the law, faculty members may be denied tenure if they are deemed unlikely to encourage intellectual diversity or expose students to scholarly…
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Utah House lawmakers Friday approved final changes to a sweeping bill that would effectively eliminate public colleges’ diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, one of the last key steps before it heads to Gov. Spencer Cox’s…
Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: A new Kentucky bill would largely ban diversity, equity and inclusion efforts at the state’s public colleges and prohibit race-based scholarships. The proposal follows similar moves in other conservative states. If passed, colleges could not…
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Utah colleges would be barred from asking prospective hires or students about their views on diversity, equity and inclusion under newly proposed legislation. Banned topics would include implicit bias, critical race theory, intersectionality and racial…
This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Rep. Virginia Foxx, chair of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, introduced a wide-ranging legislative package Thursday meant to reshape the student loan system and reduce college costs. Known as the College Cost Reduction Act, the proposal would…
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: A Kentucky lawmaker introduced a bill last week aimed at curbing diversity, equity and inclusion efforts on college campuses, furthering a nationwide conservative push against such programs. The proposed legislation would ban public colleges from…
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. A bill introduced in Congress — the Artificial Intelligence Literacy Act — aims to build AI skills and workforce preparedness as the emerging technology continues to change workplace dynamics. The legislation, introduced Dec. 15, 2023, has drawn…
Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Rep. Dan Crenshaw, a Republican from Texas, introduced a legislative proposal this week that would strip colleges of federal funding if they require employees, students or applicants to write diversity, equity and inclusion statements. Colleges…