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SOURCE: Austin American-Statesman
3/11/2023
Texas Legislation Takes Aim at University DEI Programs
The legislature would prohibit the operation of DEI offices on public campuses in Texas and maintain a list of university staff who violate the law, with consequences for employment.
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SOURCE: New York Times
3/8/2023
Edsall: Florida's Education Legislation Threatens Academic Freedom. Opinions Differ Whether That's Good
by Thomas Edsall
Columnist Thomas Edsall checked in with historian Amna Akbar, a DEI critic, about Florida's education legislation. Akbar isn't a fan, though may conservative think-tank fellows interviewed are.
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SOURCE: CNN
2/13/2023
The Three Little Letters that Have DeSantis on the Attack
by Khalil Gibran Muhammad and Erica Licht
By defunding Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programs in Florida's colleges, the governor is putting the state out of step with research-driven findings about how institutions and workplaces can incorporate diverse populations like Florida's – students, campuses and employers will pay the price for political posturing.
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
2/6/2023
Yes, DEI Can Conflict with Academic Freedom—and Academic Freedom Should Win
by Amna Khalid and Jeffrey Aaron Snyder
Many scholars have crafted careful rationales for why free inquiry and formal policies on inclusion can coexist peacefully. The Hamline University incident shows that, in a moment of crisis, administrators won't deliberate, but will follow a policy script in ways that disempower faculty, infantilize students, and become blunt instruments for reactionaries.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
11/10/2022
Miami Was Once a Model for Diversity Training—But it was Always Controversial
by Catherine Mas
Beginning in the 1970s, Miami-Dade County led the way in exploring ways to train health and human services professionals to interact with the area's diverse populations with respect and effective communication. The conflicts exploited by the "Stop WOKE" Act date back to this period.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
10/4/2022
Corporate America Copied the NFL's "Rooney Rule"—But Also its Lack of Enforcement
The NFL teams' agreement to interview minority candidates for coaching jobs always had a fault: nothing happened to teams who abused the process and interviewed candidates with no intention of hiring them.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
9/21/2022
The Defeat of Identity Politics
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Philosopher Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò argues that the rhetoric of diversity has allowed an "elite capture" of racial justice movements that strips those movements of the impulse to transform society. Historian Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor reviews his new book of essays.
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
9/2/2022
Legal Scholar: "Diversity" a Weak Substitute for Justice, Opened Door to SCOTUS Killing Affirmative Action
by Richard Thompson Ford
The cause of equality was dealt a fatal blow when courts and colleges shifted the focus of affirmative action from fighting racism to promoting diversity, argues legal scholar Richard Thompson Ford.
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SOURCE: New York Times
10/13/2021
Ryan Russell: Jon Gruden Emails Should Have Shocked Me. They Didn't
"The long delay in disclosing these emails, coupled with their conversational nature, suggests that others in the N.F.L. are, at best, tolerant of these divisive views. At worst, they share them."
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
10/1/2021
New "Wonder Years" Revives a 1970s Tactic for Diversifying TV. Will it Work?
by Kate L. Flach
The technique of "racial inversion" was intended in the 1970s to encourage white viewers to empathize with Black characters. Today, as then, the results show that TV alone can't bridge the nation's racial divisions.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
7/26/2021
Can Affirmative Action Survive the Supreme Court?
by Nicholas Lemann
The moderate Republican appointee has always served as the Justice to protect modest versions of affirmative action. What will happen in a pending case now that such Justices are gone from the court? The historical trajectory of supposedly meritocratic admissions offers clues.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
6/8/2021
Social Fissures have Made Building a Broad Liberal Coalition Hard for 50 Years
by Steven M. Gillon
Hostility toward the welfare state, frequently driven by the idea that government programs unfairly benefit minorities at the expense of whites, has prevented the Democratic party from consolidating a political majority for decades. Worshipping fallen heroes like Robert Kennedy obscures the political work needed to build and keep a coalition.
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
5/24/2021
A University Suspended Diversity Courses Because of an Incident That Almost Certainly Didn’t Happen
An incident in which a conservative student was allegedly subjected to ideological bullying and harassment was used as a pretext to cancel a set of courses addressing diversity issues at Boise State University. An outside law firm's investigation found no evidence to substantiate the description of the incident.
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
1/26/2021
Race on Campus: The Mental Burden of Minority Professors
Fernanda Zamudio-Suaréz writes about mental health challenges facing minority faculty at predominantly white institutions, quoting historians Marcia Chatelain and Katrina Phillips.
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
10/13/2020
Higher Ed’s Shameful Silence on Diversity
by Hasan Kwame Jeffries
Right-wing diatribes about diversity training often ended with a call for Trump to issue an executive order banning federal agencies from holding them. So it was not unexpected when, on September 22, Trump signed an executive order forbidding diversity training within the government.
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SOURCE: Washington Monthly
10/5/2020
Princeton, Betsy DeVos, And The Need For a Real Debate About Race
by Jonathan Zimmerman
Although the Department of Education investigation of Princeton is likely in bad faith, Jonathan Zimmerman contends that Princeton's self-flagellation about its institutional racism reflects a rising orthodoxy, not a deep debate about how the university operates.
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SOURCE: Association of University Presses
10/8/2020
AUPresses Statement on US Executive Order on Combatting Race and Sex Stereotyping
The international association of scholarly publishers calls the Trump adminstration's attacks on critical race theory and antiracism training a "chilling and frankly un-American" attack on intellectual inquiry.
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SOURCE: Daily Iowan
10/5/2020
University of Iowa Will Halt Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Training After White House Executive Order
The university's statement claimed in essence that the threat of losing federal grants and contracts could not be ignored.
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9/8/2020
The "Critical Race Theory" Controversy Continues
Florida's legislature is working to implement the agenda laid out by Governor Ron DeSantis, including eliminating Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives and putting control of faculty hiring in the hands of university presidents, not faculty.
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SOURCE: USA Today
8/11/2020
Kamala Harris Vice Presidential Pick Launches Biden Towards A Cabinet That Looks Like America
by Lindsay M. Chervinsky
Joe Biden's selection of former rival Kamala Harris suggests he will follow other successful presidencies and appoint a cabinet that brings different views to policy discussions.
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