3+ hour, 37+ min ago  (229+ words) A tenured art therapy professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago is under investigation over course materials that referenced Palestine, becoming the latest flashpoint in debates about eroding freedom of expression on American college campuses, the Guardian…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago  (300+ words) Six months after news broke that the New School was offering voluntary retirement and severance packages to large number of faculty and staff, the New York university has handed out layoff notices to around 15 percent of its employees. In a…...

6+ day, 21+ hour ago  (494+ words) A new "accountability" system would judge higher-education programs largely by graduates' earnings, posing unique risks for the humanities....

1+ mon, 5+ day ago  (245+ words) Leon Botstein, who has led Bard College since 1975 and shaped it into one of the art world's most influential liberal arts institutions, announced Friday that he will retire, after an independent report found he had not been "fully accurate" in…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (238+ words) Leon Botstein, whose leadership of Bard College has been questioned after connections with Jeffrey Epstein were revealed, has talked about retiring and moving into another role at the school after a successor is found, according to a report in the…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (474+ words) I don't think that anybody ever starts with a clear plan to sunset, but nor did I think that this would necessarily institutionalize in a way that would make it exist forever," artist and Chlo" Bass told ARTnews in a…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (178+ words) Hampshire College, a liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts, will close after 51 years in operation, becoming the latest school of its kind to shutter amid financial difficulties. The alumni list includes Christina Quarles, a painter who is now represented by…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (313+ words) On Thursday, the School of Visual Arts announced that starting next year, it will no longer offer a masters of arts degree in curatorial practice. The update was shared with faculty via an email from Steven Henry Madoff, who founded…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (484+ words) The decision to cancel a solo exhibition featuring anti-ICE art at the University of North Texas art school was an "institutional directive," Dean Karen Hutzel said in newly leaked transcripts of a faculty meeting. First reported by the Denton Record-Chronicle,…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (271+ words) Bard College has launched an "independent review" of its president's ties to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after newly released emails from the Department of Justice revealed close links between the two. The Times Union also reported that…...