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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
3/14/2023
Is the Loss of Collegiality about Manners or Workloads?
by Paula Marantz Cohen
If the campus conversation is a lost art for both professors and students, a big part of the solution must be restoring the time – and security – to talk.
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3/9/2023
North Dakota Prof: Tenure Reform Bill is About Silencing Whistleblowers
by Eric Grabowsky
A professor says that, aside from academic freedom implications, a bill proposed to reduce tenure protections is aimed at intimidating critics of the university system's management.
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SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
3/1/2023
Descendants of Slaveholder Donor Denounce Law School Name Change
T.C. Williams donated a considerable sum to the University of Richmond's law school. He also relied on slave labor in his tobacco and manufacturing businesses. The university's new policy requires them to remove his name from a building. Descendants call this hypocritical and ungrateful and demanded an inflation-adjusted refund with interest of $3.4 billion.
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SOURCE: The New Republic
2/27/2023
The Lost Promise of College for All
by Jack Schneider and Jennifer C. Berkshire
The expansion of college education—and the encouragement directed at all Americans to pursue a degree—was driven by bipartisan agreement that education could increase prosperity and alleviate inequality. Unfortunately, without a commitment to public provision, the price has been massive individual debt.
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SOURCE: Law and Political Economy Project
2/20/2023
When the Public University is a Corporate Landlord
by Charmaine Chua, Desiree Fields and David Stein
During negotiations with graduate student workers, UCLA administrators claimed that increasing stipends would effectively subsidize local landlords through higher rents and squeeze the poor in the Los Angeles housing market. The reality is that the university is an investor in a huge real estate trust that is hiking rents itself.
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SOURCE: Black Perspectives
2/14/2023
HBCUs and the 1950s Red Scare
by Candace Cunningham
South Carolina officials were able to use the purse strings to coerce public HBCU administrators to expel student activists. When private HBCUs became centers of sit-in organizing, state legislators turned to accusations of Communism.
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SOURCE: Slate
2/8/2023
If Affirmative Action is Banned, Colleges Need to Do Wealth-Based Admissions Right
by Peter Dreier, Richard D. Kahlenberg and Melvin L. Oliver
Omitting family wealth from admissions decisions harms educational equity twice over, because wealth is so influential over opportunity and because it correlates so strongly with race.
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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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