11/15
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Sensing a Moment, Diversity Officers Swap Tips on Improving Campus Climate
Put 300 campus diversity officers in a room, and they’ll have no shortage of topics to discuss. But this week, when the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education held its annual conference here, one issue came up frequently: the racial climate on college campuses. That topic has claimed the national spotlight, most recently after a video surfaced of several University of Oklahoma fraternity members’ singing a racist anthem.
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How U. of Oklahoma Treats American Indians
University of Oklahoma President David L. Boren drew praise last week when he swiftly moved to punish members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon caught singing a racist song -- much like he did when members of the same fraternity in 1996 stole a tepee and placed it on a sorority house lawn. But since the university’s scattered student services offices in the 1990's merged into a reorganized Center for Student Life, critics of Boren’s leadership say the communities for American Indian students that flourished during the late 80's and early 90's have “dwindled to almost nothing.”
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Gamification Harnesses the Power of Games to Motivate
Kevin Werbach of the Wharton School writes about gamification.
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Stunned by a Video, U. of Oklahoma Struggles to Talk About Race
The text message arrived on Latrecia Breath’s phone while she was grocery shopping on a Sunday afternoon. "Please watch this," her friend urged. Ms. Breath, a sophomore majoring in broadcasting and electronic media at the University of Oklahoma, waited until she was in the parking lot before she clicked on the link. There, in her prune-colored Saturn, she watched the video that was rapidly engulfing the 27,000-student campus. Her university had become a flash point in the national conversation about race.
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Net Neutrality Rules: Why It Kills Silicon Valley’s Startup Culture
Christopher Yoo of the Law School writes about how net neutrality affects the startup culture in Silicon Valley.
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Video: MidPoint – Ian Lustick
Ian Lustick of the School of Arts & Sciences reacts to the Israeli election.
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Named Next President of N.Y.U., Oxford’s Leader Inherits Challenges From John Sexton
New York University, which has become known for its global aspirations as much as its enviable home in Greenwich Village, named the head of one of the world’s most prestigious universities as its 16th president on Wednesday. When the new president, Andrew Hamilton, leaves his post at Oxford University to join N.Y.U. in January, he will be walking into a set of complex challenges. He will be leading a university with aggressive expansion plans, both internationally and in New York, where those plans are tied up in a court battle.
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After Racist E-mail, U-Md. President Says: We Fight Speech
The president of the University of Maryland reached out Tuesday to the campus community – horrified by an offensive e-mail written by a student – and said he would meet with student leaders after spring break to ta
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What Your Tweets Say About You
Graduate student Johannes Eichstaedt of the School of Arts & Sciences is mentioned for analyzing tweets to help answer the question, “Could those profiles help determine which countries were likely to have more deaths from heart disease?”
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Video: New Thinking in Sino-U.S. Relations
Dean Geoffrey Garrett of the Wharton School weighs in on the latest developments in Sino-American economic relations.