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SOURCE: Substack
3/19/2023
A Prominent Story about How "Diversity" Entered College Admissions is Wrong
by Charles Petersen
The plaintiffs in a case seeking to outlaw affirmative action in admission policies are relying on a false narrative that "diversity" entered Harvard's admissions criteria as a way to limit the number of Jews admitted. While the existence of Jewish quotas is documented, the two aren't connected.
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
3/17/2023
Why are Universities so Disrespectful of their Organized Workers?
by Maximillian Alvarez
From teaching assistants to cafeteria workers, labor exploitation and union busting are the shady underside of the modern university, according to three scholars active in the academic labor movement.
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SOURCE: Fox 32
3/17/2023
Anthony Chen on the History of Affirmative Action in Higher Ed
The Northwestern historian's new book will arrive as the Supreme Court potentially decides the fate of affirmative action in college admissions.
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SOURCE: Miami Herald
3/19/2023
Florida Universities on Defensive as State Attacks Diversity Initiatives
Interviews with Miami Herald reporters show the behind-the-scenes work university faculty and staff are weighing how much compliance will be required with new state laws. The DeSantis administration may achieve more performative than substantive results, but uncertainty and anxiety are common on campus.
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SOURCE: Tampa Bay Times
3/9/2023
Governor, Florida's Faculty are Doing Their Jobs. Let Them Continue
by Elizabeth Strom
Florida's higher education reform agenda imagines professors to are engaged in indoctrination, but will prevent them from doing their best research and teaching.
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SOURCE: Austin American-Statesman
3/11/2023
Texas Legislation Takes Aim at University DEI Programs
The legislature would prohibit the operation of DEI offices on public campuses in Texas and maintain a list of university staff who violate the law, with consequences for employment.
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SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
3/8/2023
Do 3 GOP Governors' Higher Ed Policies Forecast the 2024 Election
While none have announced their candidacy, Greg Abbott of Texas and Glenn Youngkin of Virginia are joining Ron DeSantis in making aggressive moves on public higher education that may signal a key issue in the GOP primaries.
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SOURCE: The Forum
3/6/2023
Fear and Loathing in Florida
by Samuel Hoadley-Brill
"Much like 'voter fraud,' the term 'critical race theory' can mean whatever DeSantis needs it to mean to justify his anti-democratic agenda."
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3/5/2023
Another Casualty of the Academic Job Market? The Relatable Professor
by Elizabeth Stice
As the academic job market demands a degree of excellence and achievement in young scholars that was unknown for earlier generations of faculty, are the shrinking ranks of the faculty being filled with professors who struggle to relate to their students?
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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: WPSD
2/23/2023
UT-Martin Student Government Condemns Tennessee "CRT" Law
Members of the People for Black History group argued that uncomfortable aspects of the state's and nation's history can't be skipped over.
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SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
2/27/2023
DeSantis Higher Ed Bill Heads for Legislature
DeSantis ally Chris Rufo tweeted that the bill "is channeling the sentiment of the voters, who have demanded that taxpayer dollars stop subsidizing left-wing racialist ideology and partisan political activism. Democracy returns.”
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SOURCE: Washington Post
2/23/2023
Texts by Youngkin UVA Appointee Full of Culture War Grudges, References to Faculty and Administrators as "Numnuts"
Bert Ellis's text conversations with other Republican appointees to the university's Board of Visitors show his adamant opposition to recognizing the history of slavery in building the institution, diversity initiatives, and other changes to UVA traditions, pledging a "battle royale for the soul" of the institution.
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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: Chronicle of Higher Education
2/22/2023
Inside the Bombshell Proposal for the University of Florida's Hamilton Center
The center was proposed through an end-run around faculty governance and pushed by influential lobbyists committed to fighting supposed "ideological uniformity" on campus. Is it a partisan invasion or a nonpartisan effort at civic education?
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SOURCE: Miami Herald
2/17/2023
Florida Students Plan Walkouts in Protest of Administrators' Cooperation With DeSantis Trans Crackdown
Six colleges are known to have complied with a request by the governor's office for information about health services provided to transgender students, which student leaders say is part of a threat to gender-affirming healthcare in the state.
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SOURCE: CNN
2/13/2023
The Three Little Letters that Have DeSantis on the Attack
by Khalil Gibran Muhammad and Erica Licht
By defunding Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programs in Florida's colleges, the governor is putting the state out of step with research-driven findings about how institutions and workplaces can incorporate diverse populations like Florida's – students, campuses and employers will pay the price for political posturing.
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SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
2/13/2023
Florida's Higher Ed Battles are, in Fact, Highly Precedented
by Barrett J. Taylor
Understanding the processes and agendas at work in the DeSantis administration's push to change higher education in Florida can help provide perspective on what's new, what's familiar, and what's at stake in the future.
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SOURCE: Academe
2/6/2023
The End of Tenure and the Transformation of Higher Ed
by Marc Stein
The decline in "tenure density"—the proportion of faculty in tenured or tenure-track jobs—is a dire threat to American higher education.
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SOURCE: Codastory
2/7/2023
Are DeSantis's Education Reforms Part of "Global Authoritarian Playbook"?
PEN America's Jeremy Young explains how Florida's reforms go further than any others in American history to limit the institutional autonomy of colleges and subject their operations to more direct political control.
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