colleges and universities

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• 5/22/2022
  

  Jane Stanford's Murder Shows the Moral Vacuum of Gilded Age Fortune and Philanthropy

  by Richard White

  Jane Stanford's murder by poisoning in 1905 was part of a long chain of inequities and moral abdications that attended the great Gilded Age fortunes at every step, from their accumulation to their dispersal as philanthropy. 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  5/3/2022
  

  What Will Post-Roe Campuses Be Like?

  Student life and mental health, gender equity, medical school curricula, and faculty recruitment are just some of the areas of change likely if some states are able to ban abortion. 

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• SOURCE: Slate
  4/16/2022
  

  Longtime Professor: Campus Free Speech Problem Isn't What You Think

  by Lucas Mann

  The campus free speech debate is framed by a fishbowl of the most selective campuses serving a tiny fraction of the student population. 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  4/8/2022
  

  Why Legislators Want to Fire All of University of South Carolina's Trustees

  Legislators have challenged the board's handling of a presidential search and the campus budget, among other concerns. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  3/30/2022
  

  The Delicate Balancing Act of Black College Presidents in the Civil Rights Era

  by Eddie R. Cole

  Although Black college presidents were often reluctant to publicly endorse sit-ins for fear of antagonizing segregationist state officials, they often were able to increase opportunity for individual students by lobbying for increases to public scholarship funds that sent Black students out of state to pursue degrees.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  2/15/2022
  

  Avoiding Racial Justice at Alabama

  by Antar Tichavakunda

  The University of Alabama's initial decision to add desegregation pioneer Autherine Lucy's name to a building already honoring a former governor and Klansman was a PR blunder, but it sheds light on the way that universities typically use symbolic changes to sidestep demands for systemic reform.

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• SOURCE: MSNBC
  1/28/2022
  

  SCOTUS Could Kill off Affirmative Action with Devastating Results

  by Keisha N. Blain

  Affirmative action policies have always aimed at changing the nation's long history of racially unequal education; that's why they've faced militant opposition all along, and why a conservative Supreme Court wants to destroy them. 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  1/24/2022
  

  Will SCOTUS Take the Opportunity to Ban Race-Conscious Admissions?

  A veteran higher education lawyer says that dire predictions that the Supreme Court will ban race-based affirmative action in admissions; narrowly-tailored diversity initiatives may survive despite the court's broad conservative majority. 

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  1/18/2022
  

  Columbia Has Lost Its Way

  The university's negotiations with its graduate student workers' union show an institution organized around the values of a corporation. 

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  1/14/2022
  

  Michigan Professor's Intro Video Stunt Leads to Suspension (content: language)

  Historian of Science Barry Mehler was suspended by Ferris State (Mich.) University after releasing a welcome video for his spring course that took what could be described as a bold and provocative approach to protesting the college's mandatory in-person teaching. 

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• 12/19/2021
  

  It's Time to Confront Special Privilege in Admission to Elite U.S. Colleges

  by Lawrence Wittner

  Merit-based admission at the nation’s most elite colleges is severely undermined by those colleges' preferential treatment of the children of the 1%. 

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• 12/5/2021
  

  Universities Operating Like Businesses Seems Inevitable. Can They Choose Better Businesses to Follow?

  by Elizabeth Stice

  "If universities behaving more like businesses is the future, we must then aim to imitate sustainable businesses which understand and utilize their unique advantages."

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• SOURCE: Tampa Bay Times
  11/30/2021
  

  A UF Professor Used "Critical" and "Race" in a Sentence. Trouble Ensued

  Education Professor Chris Busey contends that he has been barred from stating his academic specialization, which is approved by his college, in his faculty profile. Is a political attack on critical race theory responsible? 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  11/29/2021
  

  A New Force in American Labor: Academics

  A member referendum in the United Auto Workers could make the union more amenable to direct democracy, and potentially make academic workers a major power bloc in the union. 

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• SOURCE: Gothamist
  11/25/2021
  

  Rutgers Gets Mixed Results in Examining Connections to Slavery

  "Just five years after the debut of the Scarlet and Black Project—a reference to the university’s colors as well as the African Americans directly impacted by the history—many Rutgers students are unaware of the work, or their school's history."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/26/2021
  

  Virginia's Universities are Part of a Long Racial Reckoning

  Virginia was at the center of the American slave trade, the Confederacy, and Jim Crow. It's not surprising that its colleges and universities are the site of intense debate about the legacies of racism. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  11/30/2021
  

  Conservatives Today Carry on Buckley's Legacy of Being Mad at Higher Ed – But Not His Motivation

  William F. Buckley warned in 1951 that Yale professors were too heterodox. Today's academic culture warriors are worried that faculty are inculcating an orthodoxy other than their own, argues Virginia Heffernan.

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• SOURCE: Diverse Education
  11/12/2021
  

  Brown Issues Expanded Report on University's Involvement with Slavery

  Brown University has released an updated and expanded version of its 2006 report on the university's involvement in the slave trade, which points to further work to be done by the university to contribute to reconciliation and justice. 

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• SOURCE: Dissent
  11/10/2021
  

  "The Ivory Tower is Dead": An Interview with Davarian Baldwin

  Davarian L. Baldwin's work interrogates how universities in postindustrial cities exemplify new models of economic development and are implicated in the problems of labor exploitation, gentrification and inequality. 

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  11/2/2021
  

  Replacing Sentiment with Action: Support HBCUs

  by Brian M. McGowan

  "Until the discipline is ready to recognize HBCUs, our faculty, and our students as equal participants, its statements on diversity and empathy for students of color will remain conditional."