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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: Made By History at the Washington Post
1/22/2020
Even Forgiving Student Loans Won’t Solve The Higher Education Funding Crisis
by Elizabeth Tandy Shermer
The federal student loan system has always been a smokescreen for government's failure to support higher education as a public good.
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
1/12/2021
Teaching in the Age of Disinformation
Despite many professors' confidence in their ability to foster discussion of controversial subjects, studies suggest avoidance is a much more common approach. Historian of political rhetoric Jennifer Mercieca works to make students more direct and purposeful consumers of news.
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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
10/14/2020
What's At Stake for Higher Ed in the Election?
Nathan D.B. Connolly and Harvey Kaye are among scholars asked to explain the stakes of the election for higher education.
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SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
10/8/2020
Two Visions of Higher Education Illuminate the Chasm between Harris and Pence
by Marybeth Gasman and Adam Laats
The Vice Presidential candidates' university affiliations--Harris's attendance at Howard and membership in a prominent Black sorority, and Pence's political affinity for Liberty University--show that both HBCUs and Evangelical colleges are important and politically significant parts of the American higher education system.
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SOURCE: New York Times
9/2/2020
Disdain for the Less Educated Is the Last Acceptable Prejudice
by Michael J. Sandel
Joe Biden has a secret weapon in his bid for the presidency: He is the first Democratic nominee in 36 years without a degree from an Ivy League university. His campaign may test the pervasive belief that elite academic credentials are a necessity to govern.
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
8/26/2020
Will Covid-19 Revive Faculty Power?
Will the COVID crisis be the moment that seals the power of trustees, donors and administrators over universities organized like corporations, or will faculty organize to reassert shared governance?
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SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
8/24/2020
What Is College For?
by Steven Mintz
Two new books argue for a robust and engaged humanistic study as indispensable to higher education.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
7/27/2020
Will Universities Listen to Students About how to End Systemic Racism?
by Matthew Johnson
The real story is one of powerful resistance to protest. Universities have shown a deft ability to make reforms that still preserve inequality and exploitation in the face of well-organized student movements.
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SOURCE: American Prospect
7/23/2020
Back to School
by François Furstenberg
It’s not that university leaders necessarily want to open their campuses with new outbreaks looming in the fall. It’s that their business model leaves them no alternative.
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SOURCE: Public Seminar
7/15/2020
Student Visas (Past Present Podcast, Episode 237)
The Past Present podcast discusses the recent restrictions on student visas.
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
7/8/2020
The Campus Confederate Legacy We’re Not Talking About
by Taulby Edmondson
When a fraternity chapter sued him for defamation for remarking that it actively preserved the "Lost Cause" mythology of the Confederacy, the author went to the archives to defend himself.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
7/1/2020
As Young People Drive Infection Spikes, College Faculty Members Fight For The Right To Teach Remotely
Many schools are giving students the option to take classes remotely while expecting faculty to teach classes in person.
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SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
6/19/2020
How to Stop the Cuts
by Sara Matthiesen
Historians and other faculty who want to protect their disciplines and their colleagues from budget cuts need to develop maps of power and how it operates in a university.
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SOURCE: Oxford University Press Blog
6/17/2020
Black Studies For Everyone
by Armond R. Towns
Ongoing protest movements demonstrate that Black Studies is for everybody. The question is: how long will it take for higher education to catch up to such a realization?
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SOURCE: WBUR
6/8/2020
Hundreds of Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Face Losing Their Jobs. Their Students Are Upset.
One Harvard student says that these faculty members "help us grow as people, as thinkers, as learners" and are "integral" to their education.
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SOURCE: The New York Times
6/5/2020
The Only Way to Save Higher Education Is to Make It Free
by Claire Bond Potter
College was already a financial house of cards. Then coronavirus hit.
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6/7/2020
The Decline of the Humanities and the Bleach-Drinking Epidemic
by Lior Sternfeld and Mana Kia
When Donald Trump hinted that injecting "disinfectants" could cure COVID-19, he was displaying a lack of critical thinking skill that is endemic in a society where learning is valued only in economic, rather than civic, terms.
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SOURCE: Perspectives on History
6/3/2020
Remote Reflections: Learning in the Time of Corona
by Sarah Shurts
Sometimes it is not a matter of making the past more engaging for students, it is a matter of engaging ourselves in the present lives of our students.