A poster protesting TNS President Joel towers next to students, faculty and staff picketing on December 10, 2025. Photo Credit: Hyperallergic . A shock-therapy restructuring currently being carried out by senior administrators at The New School threatens the institution which, from its beginning, has been dedicated to academic freedom and critical inquiry. This current crisis shows how threats to academic freedom are intimately connected with the growing power of a managerial class within...

Left: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights is based. Right: San José State University's Clark Hall, home of the College of Social Sciences and the Justice Studies Departement. Photo Credit: San José State University . Sang Hea Kil became the first tenured professor to be fired from a public university in the US over Palestine activism since October 7, 2023. Kil was fired from San José State University (SJSU) in...

The Trump administration sued the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) on November 18, 2025, citing the university’s refusal to turn over personal information about its Jewish employees. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) had subpoenaed information such as “names, phone numbers and physical addresses” for Jewish employees at UPenn as part of an ongoing antisemitism investigation against the university. As reported by The New York Times on November 21, 2025, the requested...