Members of the American Association of University Professors gathered on Friday to protest the Laboratory Schools’s adoption of a policy calling for “viewpoint neutrality” in the classroom, which critics say will suppress academic expression and open inquiry.
The new Core writing course Inquiry, Conversation, Argument—which will be taken by approximately half of first-years in the 2026–27 school year—will also become a prerequisite for social science Core courses starting in autumn 2027.
Council of the University Senate members will meet for a previously unscheduled meeting on Friday to continue discussions about the creation of a new academic division, the first in nearly 100 years.
In a conversation with IOP Founding Director David Axelrod, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defended her past comments about billionaires, criticizing a Washington Post editorial that she called a “veiled threat.”
The union is seeking voluntary recognition by Friday to begin contract negotiations. A supermajority of the 139 eligible workers have already signed union authorization cards, a union spokesperson said.
The new iteration of the sequence, which will survey Western civilization from the ancient world to the European Union, resurrects a once-flagship College course that was condensed in 2002 after an overhaul of the Core Curriculum.
Pence spoke about U.S. foreign policy, his interactions with President Donald Trump on January 6, and the role of traditional conservatism in the Republican Party’s future during Tuesday’s event at I-House.
