There are also questions about the rationale MIT gave for its decision.

Grove City College launched a special inquiry earlier this year into whether it’s suffering from mission drift, in response to backlash regarding its diversity work. One specific concern of parents and alumni was that a new education elective taught by one the campus’s only Black scholars, which included the book How to Be an Antiracist on its syllabus, was promoting critical

Course syllabi set the tone for the whole semester. With the help of a new tool kit, some instructors are overhauling theirs to make them more welcoming, inclusive and focused on student success.

As crime rises in some cities, students’ parents are calling for more security, steps that often conflict with student and faculty efforts to reduce campus policing. Administrators are caught in the middle.