higher education

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  6/12/19
  

  Free Speech on Campus Is Doing Just Fine, Thank You

  by Lee C. Bollinger

  Norms about the First Amendment are evolving—but not in the way President Trump thinks.

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• 6/9/19
  

  Whatever Happened to an Affordable College Education?

  by Lawrence Wittner

  Over the past 40 years, the average cost of attending a four-year college increased by over 150 percent for both public and private institutions.  

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• SOURCE: Salon
  5/27/2019
  

  Billionaires can't fix college: Jim Sleeper on the real crisis in higher education

  by Jim Sleeper

  In this conversation between historian Matthew Frye Jacobson and Professor Jim Sleeper, they discuss how to reclaim college from market ideology

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• 5/26/19
  

  The Chinese Threat to American Higher Education

  by Mark S. Ferrara

  As President Trump’s nationalistic rhetoric and restrictive immigration policies have resulted in a 10 percent drop in international student enrollments on American campuses, China’s “Double First Class” plan aims to make forty-two of its universities into world-class institutions by 2050.

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  5/20/19
  

  On the Recent Executive Order on"Free Inquiry" in Higher Education

  by James Grossman and Edward Liebow

  President Donald Trump’s executive order of March 21 on “free inquiry, transparency, and accountability in colleges and universities” is a textbook example of a classic negotiating ploy—misdirection. 

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  5/14/19
  

  Historians Argue That The History Major Won’t Go the Way of the Dodo

  Featuring Philip Balson, Olivia Daniels, Ethan Ehrenhaft, Max Minshull, and Marie-Capucine Pineau-Valencienne.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  5/15/19
  

  How the War on Drugs Kept Black Men Out of College

  A new study finds that federal drug policy didn’t just send more black men to jail—it also locked them out of higher education.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  4/14/19
  

  Long considered a high honor, the valedictorian tradition faces an uncertain future

  by John R. Thelin

  Though the tradition goes back to colonial times, the validity of valedictorian honor is increasingly being called into question. 

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• SOURCE: Twin Cities Pioneer Press
  5/5/19
  

  Revise, revise, revise. That’s how history works

  by Jeff Kolnick

  Revisionism is not something to be feared or rejected, nor is it something to be celebrated or revered. It is what historians do, and we do it all the time.

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• SOURCE: Financial Times
  5/2/19
  

  US declining interest in history presents risk to democracy

  by Edward Luce

  In an ever more algorithmic world, Americans increasingly believe humanities are irrelevant.

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  4/30/19
  

  Attack on the AHA Couldn’t Be More Wrong

  by Joy Connolly

  "As interim President of a large public graduate school, I believe passionately in providing education that empowers students to make the most of their lives, whether or not they pursue careers in the academy."

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  4/26/19
  

  A Moral Stain on the Profession

  by Daniel Bessner and Michael Brenes

  As the humanities collapse, it’s time to name and shame the culprits.

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• 4/28/19
  

  Yet Another Assault on the Meaning of an Education

  by David Barber

  Education which allows us to discover who we are and where our potentialities and passions lie can only be achieved if we demand it. 

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• SOURCE: Crosscut
  4/22/19
  

  Why we need history majors to understand our future

  by Knute Berger

  Featuring Margaret O’Mara, a history professor at the University of Washington.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Education
  4/24/19
  

  Taking Down ‘Birth of a Nation’

  Chapman University removes posters from prominent places in its film school after students object to centrality of a work full of racism.

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• SOURCE: The North Star
  4/25/19
  

  Senator Elizabeth Warren’s Education Plan Will Help Fund HBCUs

  by Maria Perez

  Warren’s education plan would cancel 95 percent of some student loan debt for the nearly 45 million Americans with debt and eliminate student loan debt for 75 percent of people. 

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle Review
  4/18/19
  

  Being a Black Academic in America

  Featuring short essays by historians Keisha N. Blain, Marcia Chatelain, Gerald Early, Stefan M. Bradley, and Noliwe M. Rook.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4/11/19
  

  Teaching the Holocaust in Germany as a Resurgent Far Right Questions It

  As those who lived through it are dying off, and some people claim it never happened, what will happen to sites of remembrance?

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4/8/19
  

  Thea Hunter: The Death of an Adjunct

  Thea Hunter was a promising, brilliant scholar. And then she got trapped in academia’s permanent underclass.

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• SOURCE: One Class
  Accessed 4/4/19
  

  Should Higher-Ed Admissions Be Federally Regulated?

  What the data can teach us.