colleges and universities

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  1/11/2021
  

  A Fraught Balancing Act

  Questions of free speech and incitement, plus the demonstrable falsity of many claims made by pro-Trump student activist groups, makes for complicated choices for university administrators who may decide on disciplinary actions against students believed to incite violence. 

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• 1/10/2021
  

  Will VMI Move Further Toward Change and Away from Stonewall Jackson?

  by Wallace Hettle

  Removing the statue of Stonewall Jackson from campus is just one step that the Virginia Military Institute must take toward separating itself from the Lost Cause myth and serving all Virginians. 

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• SOURCE: Scholarly Kitchen
  12/17/2020
  

  The Humanities [Are Everywhere] in American Life

  by Karin Wulf

  A new report indicates that Americans both value and use the humanities. 

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• SOURCE: New York Review of Books
  12/17/2020
  

  College Cuts in the Green Mountain State

  by Dan Chiasson

  "Data-driven" decisions to cut programs in the humanities are based in unstated assumptions of value that point to a troubling direction in higher education. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/9/2020
  

  The Founder of Johns Hopkins Owned Enslaved People. Our University Must Face a Reckoning

  by Martha S. Jones

  "This year, so many of us at Johns Hopkins have taken pride in being affiliated with our colleagues in medicine and public health who have brilliantly confronted the coronavirus pandemic. That pride, for me, now mixes with bitterness."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  12/9/2020
  

  At Johns Hopkins, Revelations About Its Founder and Slavery

  Historian Martha S. Jones led an internal investigation into whether Johns Hopkins owned slaves after a researcher in the Maryland State Archives discovered evidence in the 1850 Census. 

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  12/4/2020
  

  ‘Never Waste a Good Pandemic’

  "Robert J. Ferry, associate professor of history and chair of Boulder’s Faculty Assembly, said that he hadn’t been involved in any discussions about the proposal thus far but that future consideration 'needs to have full involvement of the faculty'."

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  12/6/2020
  

  Hit by COVID-19, Colleges Do the Unthinkable and Cut Tenure

  College administrators have invoked financial exigency to make radical revisions to the tenure protections enjoyed by faculty and diminish the faculty role in campus governance. The American Association of University Professors calls it a crisis.

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  

  What Does African American Studies Need to Thrive?

  A recent eruption of dissention in UCLA's African American Studies department arguably reflects the strains caused by poor institutional support by the university, an issue faced by Black Studies departments on many campuses.

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  11/17/2020
  

  The Outrage Peddlers Are Here to Stay

  Campus Reform seeks to "stoke outrage at ‘liberal’ professors, with the political intent of creating a viral sensation that circulates through a highly partisan right-wing media ecosystem, and into the broader public discussion,” says Isaac Camola, a political science professor who has been active in organizing professors who are targeted by outrage campaigns.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  11/12/2020
  

  Public Colleges and Universities Need Federal Relief

  by F. King Alexander

  Without additional stimulus, further state disinvestment is imminent, significantly limiting accessible and affordable educational opportunities for students across America.

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  11/9/2020
  

  Why Some Stanford Professors Want the Hoover Institution Gone

  Ill-informed and arguably dangerous pronouncements about COVID-19 made by fellows of Stanford's Hoover Institution have brought longstanding tensions between the conservative think tank and the university's faculty to the surface. 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  11/6/2020
  

  Trump’s Presidency May Be Over. The Effects of Trumpism on Campus are Not

  The Trump presidency has raised issues about the extent of racial resentment in White America, the significance of identity politics, and the place of intellectual discovery and academic research in American life that are a long way from resolution. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  

  Historically Black Colleges and Universities are Remaking American Politics

  by Crystal R. Sanders

  The 2020 presidential election has debunked the myth that historically Black colleges do not prepare students to work in white-dominated institutions, and demonstrated that HBCUs have prepared their alumni to change the world one precinct, one county and one state at a time.

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  11/5/2020
  

  The Pandemic Is Dragging On. Professors Are Burning Out.

  "For professors of all types, their responsibilities as teachers are causing many of them to feel pressed to meet the needs of the moment."

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  11/5/2020
  

  Although Now Required by California Law, Ethnic Studies Courses Likely to be Met with Resistance

  by Nolan L. Cabrera

  A scholar who studies racial dynamics on college campuses, argues the benefits of required ethnic studie courses outweigh their liabilities.

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  11/4/2020
  

  With Presidency Uncertain, an Anxious Higher Ed Braces for What’s Next

  "Most important to many in higher education, though, would be Biden’s embrace of the value of scientific expertise, which Trump, throughout the pandemic, has questioned and even belittled."

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  10/27/2020
  

  As Freshmen, They Voted for Trump. Has College Changed Their Minds?

  They were all college freshmen when Donald Trump was elected president, and they all supported the businessman in 2016. After four years or so of college, have their views changed?

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• SOURCE: NPR
  10/26/2020
  

  VMI Superintendent Steps Down Amid Allegations Of 'Structural Racism'

  Governor Ralph Northam wrote that Virginians expect universities to "eschew outdated traditions that glamorize a history rooted in rebellion against the United States."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/26/2020
  

  Colleges Slash Budgets in the Pandemic, With ‘Nothing Off-Limits’

  By one estimate, the pandemic has cost colleges at least $120 billion.