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Weekend Reading: What to do about university funding?

HEPI

HEPI recently published a collection of essays on the issue of funding undergraduate degrees, curated by HEPI Director of Policy and Advocacy Rose Stephenson. Studying Economics or Law or Medicine at a prestigious university would mean a lifetime of higher tax payments way above the actual cost of your education.

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Enough is Enough

ACPA

The latest example reflects the absurdity of the fear mongering surrounding DEI with the elimination of not only DEI offices at the University of Florida but the firing of individuals that did this important work. The fact that these individuals were dismissed without cause in order to comply with state law sends a chilling message.

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Rallying Campus Allies

Insight Into Diversity

Amid Relentless Anti-LGBTQ+ Legislative Resistance, Universities Must Do More to Support Their Campus Communities State lawmakers are introducing and passing a multitude of harmful legislative initiatives targeting LGBTQ+ civil rights, and those actions are impacting the mental health and safety of high school and college students.

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The Invisible Student Majority

Inside Higher Ed

” As the New York Times article explains, a former Princeton professor “defended his standards. Are senior administrators more concerned about placating students and parents than defending rigor? Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Talk about a newspaper article that struck a nerve. Read: “At N.Y.U., Who Was to Blame?”

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Arab GW professor, Jewish students are denouncing each other

Inside Higher Ed

Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights regarding Sheehi, an assistant professor of clinical psychology and co-author of the book Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine. “We have learned recently from media reports that an advocacy organization has submitted a letter to the U.S.

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The Critical Race Theory Debate

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Jeremy Young The battle over critical race theory raging across America in recent years is most often fought in the realm of K-12 education, where white parents have asserted newly discovered rights to prevent their children from being taught aspects of American history that might make them feel guilty.

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Protecting Students From Antisemitism and Islamophobia

Insight Into Diversity

Individuals are also reporting instances of doxxing, a form of harassment involving the publicizing of someone’s personal information and identity. It’s really, really, challenging for Jewish students [and] for Jewish faculty, as well … a lot of the existing problems are really coming to light right now.”

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