The 2025 Republican-led bill HB 0793 permits Tennessee public schools to deny enrollment to, or charge tuition for, students who cannot establish their legal immigration status. Proponents of the bill cite the need to protect the state’s fiscal interests as its main justification, while critics argue that it would violate federal law regarding undocumented students, […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt of an article originally published on the author’s Substack Diogenes In Exile on December 2, 2024. With edits to fit MTC’s style, it is crossposted here with permission. Under what circumstance would it be acceptable for accreditors to knowingly require a standard that flouts state law? The idea is worth consideration […]
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What you may have heard coming out of Nashville recently is not the twang of country music but the shrill trill of academic controversy provoked by the decision of historically black Tennessee State University to eliminate two programs from opposite ends of the curriculum, physics and Africana studies. According to Inside Higher Ed, Administrators said the reorganization […]
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