higher education

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• SOURCE: Forbes
  6/3/2022
  

  Ellen Schrecker on the Parallels between Today's Attacks on Universities and the 1960s?

  by Marybeth Gasman

  Historian Ellen Schrecker's new book examines how the antiwar movement led the right to mobilize against universities, and the costs of that battle. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  5/31/2022
  

  Senator (and History PhD) Ben Sasse: How to Fix Higher Education

  The Senator says that large-scale student debt relief would leave in place the dysfunctional features of higher education. Find out what he, presumably in a position to do something, thinks would work better.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  6/2/2022
  

  Do Heterodox Academy Surveys Tell Us Anything Useful About the Campus Speech Climate?

  Experts debate whether polls showing students perceive stifled speech on controversial subjects are reflecting or driving reality, and if they are being used in a conservative attack on higher education. 

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• SOURCE: Salon
  5/31/2022
  

  The Far Right is Coming for Colleges

  by Kathryn Gin Lum

  Under the banner of "classical education" and civics, the far right is funding a growing number of academic centers to advance conservative views. Historians Michael Butler, Nancy MacLean and Bethany Moreton comment. 

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• SOURCE: Truthout
  5/2/2022
  

  Public Colleges Need More Democracy, Not More Administration

  by Larry Hanley and Vida Samiian

  The Cal State system is showing the effects of a bloated management structure without accountability that is increasingly common across higher education. 

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• SOURCE: Patheos
  4/27/2022
  

  What Makes a Conservative Christian College?

  by Andrea L. Turpin

  What does it mean when a self-identified "Conservative Christian" college determines that it has violated its own mission by teaching Critical Race Theory? Is the violation religious or political in nature? 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  4/26/2022
  

  How "Divisive Concepts" Laws are Targeting Universities

  A survey of recent legislation affecting the teaching of "divisive concepts" in history and other courses, plus changes to what kinds of diversity trainings are required or permitted in multiple states. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4/19/2022
  

  Nepotistic Legacy Admissions are the Gaping Loophole of American Meritocracy

  by Richard Reeves

  Is a campaign of shaming over legacy admissions necessary to shift American norms away from tolerating these policies that reproduce generational privilege? 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  4/12/2022
  

  John Thelin, Approaching Retirement, Shares Insight on the Past and Future of Higher Education

  A college campus can be a spectacular stage set, but it's ultimately people – professors, students, and administrators – who make the campus a dramatic space reflecting and influencing the wider society. 

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• SOURCE: Commentary
  4/16/2022
  

  Dan Patrick's Illiberal Attack on Higher Ed

  by Jonathan Marks

  There are good conservative arguments for abolishing faculty tenure; Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick isn't advancing one of them as he seeks to punish political opponents for their ideas.

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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: Nature
  4/12/2022
  

  Campus CRT Battles Recall 1920s Evolution Fight

  by Adam Laats

  Faculty and teachers who want to fight back against the Critical Race Theory panic can take the high ground by stressing the importance of quality research and teaching, if the 1920s are a guide. 

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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: Chronicle of Higher Education
  3/21/2022
  

  The University in Ruins: Against Farcical "Innovations"

  by Johann N. Neem

  "It’s not clear what role universities should play in society, and to what or to whom they are accountable, other than their corporate interests."

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  3/9/2022
  

  Florida Legislature Seeks Conservative Stamp on Higher Ed

  "National higher-education experts and faculty members in Florida say the legislation is part of an attack on bedrock principles that preserve the academic autonomy of faculty members and institutions."

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• SOURCE: Insurrect: Radical Thinking in Early American Studies
  2/10/2022
  

  Notes from a Grad School Survivor

  by Kellen Heniford

  This week's revelations of sexual harassment and institutional complicity at Harvard are striking a chord with women academics because they're not surprising. The author discusses her own experiences and the power dynamics stacked against students and survivors.

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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: Wall Street Journal
  1/10/2022
  

  Federal Lawsuit Charges Ivy League, other Elite Universities with Collusion on Admissions, Tuition

  "According to a lawsuit filed in Illinois federal court late Sunday by law firms representing five former students who attended some of the schools, the universities engaged in price fixing and unfairly limited aid by using a shared methodology to calculate applicants’ financial need."

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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."