Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Jeff Witmer, professor of math, said that what the board appears to want “will change the ethos of Oberlin—a place where historically the faculty have made progressive decisions and where the dean has been viewed as first among equals. Yet the faculty didn’t lead Oberlin’s response to the incident.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The guidance doesn’t—and, as mere advice, can’t—ban statements about social or political issues. “Departments as such should avoid statements on what we call here ‘external’ matters (state, national, or international policy matters),” the guidelines say.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 11, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. She offered an argument about the efficacy of political action in generating conditions of equality for women, drawing largely on the political history of the US in the second half of the twentieth century. The morning plenary was by Deondra Rose, of Duke.

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