Afternoon Update: Federal judge blasts UCLA for allowing encampment protesters to block Jewish students

Liberal-arts degrees as "credentials of value"; normalize open disclosure of AI use; U. of Arizona provost leaves after just one month; and more. ADVERTISEMENT [Afternoon Update Logo]( You can also [read this newsletter on the web](. Or, if you no longer want to receive this newsletter, [unsubscribe](. CAMPUS UNREST [Federal Judge Blasts UCLA for Allowing Encampment Protesters to Block Jewish Students]( By Katherine Mangan [STORY IMAGE]( The university must allow the students equal access to the entire campus, the judge said in a preliminary injunction. An expert said it could have implications for other colleges. ADVERTISEMENT [Federal Judge Blasts UCLA for Allowing Encampment Protesters to Block Jewish Students]( THE EDGE [Yup, Liberal-Arts Degrees Are ‘Credentials of Value’]( By Goldie Blumenstyk [STORY IMAGE]( Texas now funds community colleges based not on enrollment but for degrees that pay off and on outcomes like enrolling low-income and adult students. LATITUDES [In Exile, the American U. of Afghanistan Doubles Down on Its Mission]( By Karin Fischer [STORY IMAGE]( Three years after the Taliban took power again, there is urgency to provide access to Afghan students, especially women. ADVICE [Why We Should Normalize Open Disclosure of AI Use]( By Marc Watkins [STORY IMAGE]( It’s time we reclaim faculty-student trust through clear advocacy — not opaque surveillance. LEADERSHIP [U. of Arizona Provost to Leave for Florida After Just One Month on the Job]( Joseph Glover, a former provost at the University of Florida, said he would return there at the request of W. Kent Fuchs, [a former president]( who was named interim leader after [Ben Sasse stepped down]( in July. Glover was appointed Arizona’s provost by Robert C. Robbins, who is [stepping down]( as president and [will be succeeded]( by Suresh Garimella. (Arizona Daily Star, KTAR, The Chronicle) ACADEMIC FREEDOM [Indiana Argues Professors Lack First Amendment Rights in Public Classrooms]( In a [brief]( defending the state’s new law [tying tenure]( to “[intellectual diversity]( the Indiana attorney general wrote that “the classroom curriculum of a public university is government speech” and faculty members “have no right to control how the state speaks.” The [unpopular argument]( follows [one made by Florida]( to [defend a law]( that has thus far been [struck down]( in court. (Inside Higher Ed, The Chronicle) ANTI-DEI EFFORTS [Georgia Colleges Are Not Fully Complying With Diversity-Statement Ban, Review Shows]( The internal review found that the 26-campus University System of Georgia had complied incompletely with a ban on diversity statements and ideological tests in recruiting and training employees. The system imposed the ban a year ago, one of [many such steps]( taken by [public colleges and universities]( in advance of [anti-DEI legislation](. (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Chronicle) CONSOLIDATION [Lackawanna and Peirce Colleges, Both in Pennsylvania, Announce Plans to Merge]( Lackawanna, based in Scranton and with six other locations, enrolls 2,100 students, many of them first-generation. Peirce, in Philadelphia, has about 1,400 students, mostly women of color. The colleges, oriented toward adult students, are in good shape financially, they said, and aim to finalize the merger, under Lackawanna’s name, by next July. Its president will lead the merged institution. (WVIA) UPCOMING WORKSHOP [The Chronicle's Leadership Transformation Collaborative | Starting in August 2024] Join The Chronicle’s Leadership Transformation Collaborative this fall to not only learn a new set of leadership skills, but to gain a structure for implementing them into your day-to-day work. 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