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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
1/19/2023
Colleges are Vulnerable to Political Attacks Because They've Abandoned their Roots
by Christine Adams
"Despite the persistence of conservative campaigns against higher education, American colleges and universities have never really hit on an adequate response to these attacks."
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SOURCE: New York Times
1/15/2023
Affirmative Action Cases May Force Colleges to Rethink Everything
Some experts warn of a possible lost generation of college students from underrepresented backgrounds if race-conscious admissions are prohibited.
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SOURCE: Christianity Today
1/13/2023
Council of Christian Colleges and Universities Gets Court Win on Exemptions to Discrimination Law
A judge dismissed a lawsuit by LGBTQ students that challenged the faith-based exemptions that Christian colleges can claim from enforcement of antidiscrimination laws.
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SOURCE: CNN
12/7/2022
Beyond Yale and Stanford, Colleges are Dropping the Ball on Student Mental Health
by David M. Perry
If two high profile incidents are any indication, many colleges seek to move students with mental health concerns off campus as quickly and quietly as possible, putting their own liability and reputation ahead of the needs of students for supportive community.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
11/29/2022
Can Universities Protect Diverse Admissions and Excellence?
by John Thelin
The vastly improved technology available to college admissions officers means that a handful of selective institutions can serve the interest of both nominal diversity and elite reproduction, while exacerbating the divide in elementary and secondary educational quality in the nation.
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SOURCE: Vox
11/21/2022
Demographics and the Shrinking Future of College
As the number of students promises to contract in coming years, the workforces and communities that depend on small colleges and regional public universities face dire prospects.
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11/20/2022
Should We Burst the Campus "Bubble"—Or Balance It?
by Elizabeth Stice
"It is fine for a university to be unusual compared to other environments. That does not make it inherently incapable of preparing people for the real world."
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SOURCE: Academe
10/15/2022
Higher Ed's Past is Gilded, Not Golden
by Elizabeth Tandy Shermer
Despite unfavorable comparisons between today's college costs and labor conditions and those prevailing in the 1960s, public higher education was never based on a deep commitment to egalitarianism, and has long financed, rather than funded, college.
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SOURCE: Academe
10/18/2022
A New Framework of Values for Universities?
Historians Jennifer Mittelstadt and Davarian Baldwin discuss how universities must reject the "ivory tower" model to be contributors to the well-being of the communities around them as well as to maintain their intellectual vitality.
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SOURCE: The New Republic
10/12/2022
Will Other Elite Unis Follow Princeton's Lead in Rejecting Fossil Fuel Money?
by Ilana Cohen and Michael E. Mann
A student movement is realizing its first successes in convincing university administrators to refuse donations that, activists argue, inevitably compromise the integrity of university research on climate change.
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
9/16/2022
Partisan Attacks on Universities Show Administrators Need to Drop the Charade of Political Neutrality
by Holden Thorp
A veteral university administrator and scholarly journal editor says that the right is bound and determined to attack universities regardless of how much administrators proclaim their commitment to open debate. They need to embrace the role of truth-seeking instead.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
9/13/2022
The Half-Century Road to the Student Debt Crisis
by John Thelin
A fatal mistake made by Congress in 1972 was to expand aid to students, imagined as consumers, through the Guaranteed Student Loan program, instead of subsidizing institutions to control costs.
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SOURCE: New York Times
9/12/2022
Descendants of Enslaved Ask What Harvard Owes Them
A student research project led to Roberta Wolff-Platt becoming the first identified descendant of persons enslaved by the benefactors of Harvard College. Now Harvard considers how to begin the process of atonement.
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
9/6/2022
Colleges Should Quit Trying to Appease the Right
by Silke-Maria Weineck
"When J.D. Vance says that 'professors are the enemy,' he is correct. He is our enemy, and we must be his. I welcome his hatred."
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SOURCE: Against the Current
8/15/2022
Faculty Need Labor Organizing, Not Shared Governance
by Eva Cherniavsky
"Beyond the walls of the academy, where the default vision of the college professor is (still) that of an over-educated, privileged elite reveling in the outrageous luxury of career-long job security, no one at all is much concerned with the erosion of faculty power. Yet they should be."
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SOURCE: Athletic Director U
8/1/2022
The Power 5 Conferences Should Split Revenues with College Football Players
by Victoria Jackson
Another college football season means another chance to demand that universities and the NCAA recognize a fundamental fact about the dangerous and isolating work performed by players: they are not student-athletes, but employees of the football team.
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7/31/2022
Collegiality, Interdisciplinarity, and the Historian's Work
by Elizabeth Stice
Universities should encourage, and scholars should embrace, opportunities for collegial cooperation that encourage the lowering of the barriers to cross-disciplinary conversations. Both the researcher and the university will benefit.
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SOURCE: Slate
7/27/2022
Young Faculty Refusing the "Free Labor" Their Predecessors Performed Have Their Reasons
by John Warner
Faculty used to operate in a gift economy of unpaid labor supporting peer review, journal editing, and writing letters for tenure reviews. Now that institutions have withdrawn the possibility of that work being cashed in for job security, why should any faculty bother with it?
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SOURCE: Public Books
7/19/2022
Robert Lee on "Land-Grab" Universities
Robert Lee of Cambridge University discusses his work documenting the treaty-like arrangements by which universities appropriated indigenous lands to build their endowments, an understudied aspect of the land-grant university system.
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SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
7/20/2022
University Attempt to Give Back Gets Backlash
Higher ed historian Davarian Baldwin says that Fairfield University's plan to develop a low-cost Associates Degree college will be an incomplete solution to the problems of uneven development in Bridgeport, Connecticut (a problem that is partly fueled by the operation of private universities).
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