The announcement came a day after protesters confronted attendees of a campus event hosted by Turning Point USA, the conservative group founded by Charlie Kirk.
Bucknell University says it’s closing its storied academic press to focus more resources on undergraduate students. But faculty and other scholars say the press has long been a part of the value proposition at a student-centered university. Faculty and academic press advocates are pushing back against Bucknell University’s unilateral decision to close its academic press, which has a decades-old reputation for publishing important work in the fields of 18th-century studies and Latin American literature.
