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Audio: Working and Poor: An Overlooked Constituency, Issue on Campaign Trail
Dan Hopkins of the School of Arts & Sciences is quoted about poverty rarely being mentioned on the political campaign trail.
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Locked Out of the Conversation
Two professors are suing Wheelock College, charging it with illegal discrimination against them as Jews, and a campaign of retaliation, allegedly to punish them for suggesting campus discussions about diversity be more inclusive of Jewish students. The college says it’s dedicated to inclusion and regrets the two plaintiffs declined to resolve their concerns outside court -- an assertion they challenge. A third plaintiff, a former administrator, is also suing, alleging race-based discrimination and retaliation.
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After Gaining Legitimacy, Can Online Higher Education Replace Traditional College?
For much of their modern existance, distance-education courses have suffered from an image problem. In the 1970s and 1980s, they were seen as cheap knockoffs of on-campus offerings, hawked on late-night television by the likes of Sally Struthers, who asked viewers, “Do you want to make more money? Sure, we all do,” in commercials for the International Correspondence School.
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Clinton Courts Pennsylvania Women, Cites Trump’s Miss Universe Fight
Matthew Levendusky of the School of Arts & Sciences comments on how close the polls are between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in Pennsylvania.
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Afraid to Speak Up: In the Era of Trigger Warnings, a Tenured Professor Stays Silent
There has been a lot of debate about speech on campuses across the country lately, with some students demanding safe spaces where they can avoid people whose opinions they find offensive, and trigger warnings before sensitive topics such as rape are mentioned in class. Some university officials have pushed back, telling students that they are concerned about academic freedom and don’t support faculty providing warnings before discussing controversial ideas.
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Scholars for Trump
Mark Bauerlein, an English professor at Emory University, spent two and a half years working in the George W. Bush administration and, later, voted for Barack Obama in 2008. Now Bauerlein, one of the country's most vocal conservative academics, is one of the few in the profession openly supporting Donald Trump. "We've reached a point where we need a jolt. We need someone who can take on the taboos and do so in a canny and effective way," Bauerlein said.
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How One College Quelled Controversy Over a Koch-Financed Center
Western Carolina University stood on the brink of a battle with its faculty after it announced plans last fall to take $2 million from the Charles Koch Foundation to establish a Center for the Study of Free Enterprise. The Faculty Senate overwhelmingly adopted a statement criticizing the gift agreement as a threat to both academic freedom and the university's reputation. The free-market-oriented Koch Foundation fueled tensions by seeking to obtain the emails of its critics on the faculty through North Carolina’s open-records law.
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Princeton Scientist Shares Physics Nobel for Study of ‘Strange’ Materials
Charles Kane and Eugene Mele of the School of Arts & Sciences are mentioned for their theoretical work on topological insulators.
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‘Long Overdue’: Colleges Needed Lower Standard of Evidence in Sexual Assault Cases, An Advocate Says
In the five years since a federal agency announced new rules governing how colleges should respond to allegations of rape and sexual assault, opponents have argued that student and faculty rights have been dangerously eroded. The directive known as the “Dear Colleague” letter brought national scrutiny to the issue, upended the way most school officials responded to claims of sexual assault and made the problem a much greater priority for many schools.
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‘Our Compelling Interests’
This summer, advocates for diversity in American higher education won a major victory when the Supreme Court upheld the right of colleges to consider race and ethnicity in admissions. This fall, American colleges have experienced numerous racist incidents, leaving many minority students angry and feeling unwelcome. In this environment, leading scholars on race and the economy have contributed essays to a new collection, Our Compelling Interests: The Value of Diversity for Democracy and a Prosperous Society (Princeton University Press).