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Advocacy group survey: Faculty fear backlash for free speech

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Image: The authors of a new survey and report on faculty members’ free speech views concluded that they generally oppose punishing free expression. Faculty members also express more support for what the report, released Tuesday, labels “soft authoritarianism. four-year public and private nonprofit universities.

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Report: U of Arkansas system may buy University of Phoenix

Confessions of a Community College Dean

A few years later, in 2020, the University of Arizona, a public land-grant institution, purchased for-profit Ashford University in a deal that included roughly 35,000 students—all online. They also questioned why they had largely been sidelined in discussions.

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Reflections on 2018 and Predictions for 2019: with Drumm McNaughton | Changing Higher Ed Podcast 012

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Some of those mergers were huge ( Purdue acquiring Kaplan , Strayer acquiring Capella, National University System acquiring Northcentral ). In addition, 14 nonprofit universities closed and five merged while 36 public institutions merged or consolidated. Negotiations with Faculty. Faculty Promotion and Tenure.