News You Might Have Missed: 9/19/25

A collection of news and updates relating to admissions and testing over the last week.

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Multiple Faculty and Staff Members Have Been Fired for Comments About Charlie Kirk’s Death

In the wake of the killing of Charlie Kirk, a litany of comments were made online about his shooting, death, and the subsequent arrest of his killer. For some made by faculty and staff on college campuses, this led to being fired. The Chronicle of Higher Education has helpfully put together a list of faculty and staff dismissals at schools across the country.

The Chronicle is paywalled, but the basic fact is that this has happened nationally but not in all states. The comments also range from celebrating his death to wondering about the political fallout. Clearly, the second part was a good sense of what was to come. This is part of a larger right-wing backlash in the wake of Kirk’s killing. (And it isn’t just on college campuses. Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show was pulled from the air.) And some were suspended rather than terminated.

The irony is that Charlie Kir…