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Free speech concerns prompt calls to shun Yale Law grads

Inside Higher Ed

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, urged the boycott last month when addressing a Federalist Society event in Kentucky. He argued that Yale Law students haven’t faced consequences for shutting down a speaker last year, meaning “Yale not only tolerates the cancellation of views—it practices it.

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The Mindful Learning Framework

Faculty Focus

In this lesson, have your students take the Positivity Test in Barbara Fredrikson’s book Positivity. This test will push your students to think about how they perceive events in their lives. One of the ways for students to initiate positive thinking is to find positive meaning in the events in their life through daily practice.

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Getting Through This Together, As We Always Have

The Student Affairs Collective

Back in 2014, six of our students were killed just blocks from our campus during a violent rampage/mass shooting event. In 2001, a UCSB student had intentionally struck a crowd of people off campus with his vehicle killing four people instantly, and a fifth person who was critically injured succumbed to his injuries 15 years later.

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Incidents on AU campus prompt look into policy

Inside Higher Ed

Image: The reaction was swift when an anonymous student wrote “Black people suck” on a library whiteboard at American University in February. ” A Look Back American has seen its fair share of such events in recent years. The investigation ended a year later with no resolution and no leads on who committed the act.

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The Mindful Learning Framework

Faculty Focus

In this lesson, have your students take the Positivity Test in Barbara Fredrikson’s book Positivity. This test will push your students to think about how they perceive events in their lives. One of the ways for students to initiate positive thinking is to find positive meaning in the events in their life through daily practice.