Academic Peter Ridd has lost his “all or nothing” high court appeal against James Cook University, after he was sacked for breaches of the university’s code of conduct relating to public commentary about the Great Barrier Reef which the university said denigrated a colleague. Apply online

As part of an “Anti-Racism Faculty Hiring Initiative” underway at the University of Michigan, the school has announced it will soon hire three “Professorships in Racial Justice & Technology.” Read more

The Eighth Circuit denied an appeal from conservative plaintiffs on Monday in their lawsuit against the University of Minnesota. Read more

Report on speech policies for students studying abroad speaks to tensions in balancing student rights and student safety overseas. Read more

The mantra of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, or DEI, has become increasingly dominant in higher education, but two professors have created an alternative to DEI called “Merit, Fairness and Equality,” or “MFE. Read more

Last year, Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton and his wife Anne Case, both emeritus professors at Princeton University, published “Deaths of Despair,” a much-acclaimed book that delved into why the mortality rate among non-Hispanic white Americans without a college degree has been rising, undoing a century of progress. Read more

The stickers feature a popular video game character/meme accompanied by text that reads 'CHINA KINDA SUS.' Read more

As National Youth Justice Action Month is marked in October, the Biden administration is again voicing allegations of racial disparity in juvenile misconduct prosecution, with a September 30 proclamation decrying such bias. Read more

First they got tenure at Colby College. Then they each got $100,000, no strings attached. Could the Haynesville Project be the new donation paradigm? Read more

A headteacher and her father have been sentenced for the second time for running an illegal unregistered school in south London following a crackdown by the schools watchdog Ofsted. Read more