Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Harvey The steady drumbeat of criticism of higher education that political conservatives have generated over the last several decades has clearly had an impact. The headline is then followed by this intriguing subtitle: Why do more and more Americans think college isn’t even worth it? Dr. William B.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 16, 2023

Students from the recently embattled liberal arts school are preparing for an alternative commencement this year, a “Commencement On Our Terms," given the conservative shift of the school set into motion by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. The graduates will celebrate in a private gathering at an undisclosed location in downtown Sarasota.

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Ray Schroeder

MARCH 27, 2024

Brazen scandals, personal squabbles and partisan politics have prompted shake-ups and recent threats to remove members of governing boards in four states: Arizona, Hawaii, Michigan and Wisconsin.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2023

72% of conservative faculty, 56% of moderate faculty, and 40% of liberal faculty reported being afraid of losing their jobs or reputations due to their speech. A quarter of faculty said they were very or extremely likely to self-censor in academic publications, and over one in three do so during interviews or lectures.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The reaction to making a broader stream of knowledge and information available in colleges and universities has provoked a highly predictable, extremely negative reaction from political conservatives.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

A new study conducted by the ultra-conservative Manhattan Institute and published by the City Journal claims to prove that Critical Race Theory (CRT) is being taught in K-12 education. Further, the manner in which conservative media embraces the study gives a compelling glimpse at anti-CRT proponents’ operational definition of CRT.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 13, 2023

Although the exact scope of the decision can’t be known, it seems clear that the court’s conservative majority will strike down the consideration of race in admissions. This rationale, argues Carnevale in the report, is less politically appealing and morally compelling. Carnevale, director of the CEW. “It

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 14, 2023

Florida has become the poster child for the state leading this conservative backlash against DEI, but several other state legislatures including Virginia, Alabama, Georgia, Idaho and Iowa are joining in. Their goal? To identify and cut DEI in higher education. But we put the targets on ourselves.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 30, 2023

These findings indicate general support for affirmative action as the conservative-majority Supreme Court is expected to rule on the practice – and the lawsuits challenging it at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina – soon. Currently, the practice is banned in nine states, such as California, Michigan, and Florida.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2024

In response to her resignation announcement, some conservatives and political pundits expressed satisfaction as if to suggest a win had occurred or that their clearly orchestrated attack had succeeded. Black women do not have and never had the luxury of being regarded as worthy of protection. We have always had to save ourselves.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

DeSantis’ conservative agenda for Florida’s New College of Florida made its first major move Tuesday by ousting sitting president Patricia Okker, replacing her with former education commissioner and GOP Florida House Speaker Richard Corcoran.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

One such course, “Decolonizing Conservation,” takes students to Alaska, Graml said, where they study ecology and conservation while keeping in mind the colonialist perspectives involved. And in order to understand and maybe change these power structures, it needs a critical approach to global learning."

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk and conservative radio host Dennis Prager were met with protest, and the talk fed political fires about campus free speech. Turning Point USA officials did not make Kirk available to The Arizona Republic for questions.

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University Business

JANUARY 29, 2024

Ever since West Texas A&M University President Walter Wendler started developing a new institute on campus to champion “Panhandle values,” he has publicly steered away from any political labels. Wendler even asked employees not to use the word “conservative” when describing the upcoming Hill Institute.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2024

America’s racial tension has been heightened by increasingly conservative Supreme Court rulings, book bans, and an increasing number of bans on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programming in states across the country. But the current political environment is troubling, he said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 1, 2023

Love’s tenure has faced assaults on multiple fronts, with some alumni frequently speaking to leadership and condemning DEI; a national anti-DEI movement; opposition from The Spirit of VMI, a political action committee of mostly White conservative graduates; and in-state ideological differences, such as from the commonwealth’s office of diversity, opportunity, (..)

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University Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

(CNN) – The proposal is a top priority for DeSantis’ higher education agenda this year, which also includes giving politically appointed presidents and university boards of trustees more power over hiring and firing at universities and urging schools to focus their missions on Florida’s future workforce needs.

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University Business

JUNE 5, 2023

Conservative lawmakers have accelerated efforts to try to rein in what they see as liberal indoctrination on college campuses, with dozens of state bills igniting debates in recent months over academic priorities and how public universities should operate. Read more from The Washington Post.

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University Business

MAY 16, 2023

Referring to DEI as a concept that “promote(s) dangerous political and social activism,” DeSantis believes it espouses censorship and disproportionately antagonizes conservative voices on campus. Moreover, the bill places higher accountability on university presidents to fire faculty.

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University Business

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Many are giving up coveted tenured positions and blaming their departures on Governor DeSantis and his effort to reshape the higher education system to fit his conservative principles. The post In Florida’s hot political climate, some faculty have had enough appeared first on University Business. Read more from The New York Times.

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Ray Schroeder

MARCH 31, 2023

A Texas lawmaker has filed legislation that would turn the Civitas Institute — a center that faculty have criticized as politically motivated because it was originally conceived with the help of conservative donors and state lawmakers — into a formal college at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Ray Schroeder

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Ron DeSantis, the College Board released on Wednesday an official curriculum for its new Advanced Placement course in African American Studies — stripped of much of the subject matter that had angered the governor and other conservatives. It ushered out some politically fraught topics, like Black Lives Matter, from the formal curriculum.

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University Business

JANUARY 30, 2023

A recent Daily Mail article ranked higher education institutions according to their penchant for promoting a range of “politically correct” tropes – and placed Cambridge and Oxford in the top spots.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Given the conservative political forces across the nation that are currently pushing to reduce and eliminate support for diversity, equity, and inclusion, meaningful actions by alumni are vital to provide campus leadership with support for the humanistic core values that they previously espoused.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

DeSantis has called the course a form of “indoctrination” and a way to “shoehorn in queer theory” through Black history for political purposes. The course curriculum downplays topics criticized from conservatives, with matters such as Black Lives Matter, slavery reparations, and queer life not part of the exam.

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University Business

MARCH 3, 2023

When professors across the political spectrum become terrified of losing their jobs for exercising their rights, true academic inquiry and diversity of thought become nearly impossible.” “We’re finally seeing the extent to which faculty have lost their peace of mind,” said FIRE Research Fellow Dr. Nathan Honeycutt, according to Diverse.

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The Guardian Higher Education

JANUARY 30, 2023

A recent Daily Mail article ranked higher education institutions according to their penchant for promoting a range of “politically correct” tropes – and placed Cambridge and Oxford in the top spots. In talking to students in the UK and the US as part of our research for a new book, we found that this was a deliberate mirage.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

” “We can expect more expulsions of students and faculty and a more conservative academic curriculum in the coming months,” said Mehrzad Boroujerdi, author of Iranian Intellectuals and the West and vice provost of Missouri University of Science and Technology.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The approved salary is the most recent move made by the board’s newly conservative majority, which swiftly voted to oust Okker less than a month ago in what she passionately described as a “hostile takeover.” He also has political ties to help us secure necessary funding for the school,” she said. ” Gov.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Intellectual diversity is not what it should be at UNC Chapel Hill: UNC’s 2019 campus climate survey revealed that about 21 percent of its students feel that their political views are not respected on campus. Clearly, UNC Chapel Hill’s trustees have recognized and addressed this issue in a way that other constituencies have not.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2024

He dedicated himself to protesting any perceived involvement by Howard with President Trump’s agenda or cabinet, creating the unaffiliated student group HUResist in the hopes of pushing Howard toward resistance against Trump’s more conservative educational doctrine.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 11, 2023

“If ‘waive or modify’ doesn’t encompass elimination of a repayment obligation, I don’t know that the terms ‘compromise, waive, or release,’ are going to do it for the conservative supermajority either,” Glater said. Roberts cited the doctrine in his ruling against the first debt plan.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Given the current political atmosphere, it is not difficult to see why 74 percent of respondents in the Student Voice survey feel the federal government is doing too little to address climate change. Partner with local governments. These are decision-making processes that students can witness firsthand and even influence.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Image: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill leaders have given mixed messages about what sounded, at least initially, like the university is trying to resurrect plans for a conservative campus center. ” The project didn’t become a large conservative nexus. 28 interview on Fox and Friends.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Some of the findings, which vary significantly by demographic group and political orientation: Students were more likely to agree than to disagree that faculty members create an atmosphere supportive of free expression. Self-described conservatives were several times likelier than their peers to answer that way.

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University Business

APRIL 5, 2023

Politics is beginning to polarize college campuses into factions and the extent to which students and faculty are willing to go to resist hearing opposing viewpoints is increasing. Two conservative federal appeals court judges have decided not to hire any more graduates from Stanford Law School since the incident.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

It has a deserved reputation as a politically conservative university. PBA is conforming to a toxic political culture, and they are playing a role that is a part of that culture’s script: a role that says, ‘We do not like to have uncomfortable conversations about race. PBA is a Christian university.

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