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Widening Access to Study Abroad
Andres Castro Samayoa, Marybeth Gasman and Paola Esmieu of the Graduate School of Education write about creating more access and resources for study abroad opportunities.
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Mizzou’s Impact Is Felt on Campuses Nationwide
The protests at the University of Missouri, which upended an entire campus system this week, continue to have an impact across the country as student demonstrators seize on the energy of the moment and racial tensions escalate. “They smell blood in the water,” said Raymond Cotton, a lawyer who represents university presidents and boards, of activists who have been emboldened by the success of the protesters at Mizzou. “The students out there got their university not only to back down, but they got the heads of two administrators.”
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Do Debates Matter?
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center is quoted about the large number of Republican candidates still running for president.
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Purdue vs. Yale and Mizzou
The Wall Street Journal couldn't have been much more excited about what Mitch Daniels said Wednesday about the protests at Yale University and the University of Missouri. "We’ve been wondering all week what happened to the grown-ups on American university campuses, and it appears we have a sighting. Mitch Daniels, the president of Purdue University, spoke up Wednesday about the children’s revolt at Yale and Missouri," said the Journal in an editorial. While many conservatives joined in praising Daniels, his comments angered many black students at Purdue and some critics elsewhere.
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Professors Dispute Depiction of Harvard Case in Rape Documentary
The veracity of one of this year’s most talked about documentaries, “The Hunting Ground,” has been attacked by 19 Harvard Law School professors, who say the film’s portrayal of rape on college campus is distorted, specifically when it comes to their school’s handling of one particular case. Directed by Kirby Dick and produced by Amy Ziering, whose previous team efforts include the Oscar-nominated “The Invisible War” (2012), about sexual assault in the military, “The Hunting Ground” interviews victims of sexual assault at colleges around the country.
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When Pursuing Diversity, Victory Is Hard to Define
Shaun Harper of the Graduate School of Education talks about the “semantic substitutes” used to described racism on college campuses.
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Can We Be Bribed Into Making Smarter Health Choices?
David Asch of the Perelman School of Medicine is cited for leading a study on using financial incentives in health-care settings.
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After a Mass Extinction, Only the Small Survive
Lauren Sallan of the School of Arts & Sciences is highlighted for her research and paper, “Body-size reduction in vertebrates following the end-Devonian mass extinction.”
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College Students Confront Subtler Forms of Bias: Slights and Snubs
USC junior Vanessa Diaz was raised in Dallas. But at a party two years ago, she was asked if she could speak English. When Diaz became offended, the other student tried to pass off the question as a joke. But it did not amuse her, any more than the idea of Mexican-themed parties on Greek Row featuring students in sombreros and fake mustaches. "Because of the society we live in, it's not OK to be overtly racist," Diaz said. "But that doesn't mean everything is OK."
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Amid Unrest in Missouri, University System Picks Michael Middleton as Interim Chief
The Missouri state university system on Thursday named as interim president an African-American who said he understood the complexity and nuance of the recent racially charged campus clashes, adding that while some people will hold his race against him, it probably also played a role in his getting the job. The interim leader, Michael A. Middleton, was an undergraduate and law school student, and later a law professor, and then an administrator at the University of Missouri, the flagship of the system.