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Is the Word ‘Plantation’ Racist?
In an 1862 letter, Andrew Dickson White, Cornell University’s first president, described his idea of a great university: “It must have the best of Libraries -- collections in different departments -- Laboratory -- Observatory -- Botanical Garden perhaps …” The university's gardens were created over 70 years later, and they were called the Cornell Plantations. Today the Plantations contain a botanical garden, an arboretum, and a network of nature preserves. But the name, opponents argue, evokes the language of slavery.
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Calls to Change U. of Alabama Building Name to Honor Harper Lee Instead of KKK Leader
A University of Alabama junior is asking that a building on campus be renamed to honor an alumna, the author Harper Lee, rather than a former senator who was a Confederate general and a leader of the Ku Klux Klan. Her petition, which had nearly 2,000 digital signatures within days of being posted online after Lee’s death, joins a growing number of calls at universities across the country to reconsider traditions, names and symbols of the past.
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Audio/Video: Sandra González-Bailón, University of Pennsylvania – Slacktivism
Sandra González-Bailón of the Annenberg School for Communication is profiled and explains the rise of slacktivism.
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Chinese Move Money Abroad as Economy Slows
Sam Chandan of the Wharton School says, “Chinese investors are the newest players on the scene, but they have very quickly grown to become the dominant player in those gateway markets.”
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Off-Campus ‘Ghetto Party’ Condemned by Fairfield University
A “ghetto”-themed party hosted off campus by students over the weekend set off a wave of discussion about race and a lack of diversity at Fairfield University, a mostly white Roman Catholic institution here. University officials learned about the party from photos and posts that spread widely on social media, claiming that students had worn brown makeup and “perpetuated racial stereotypes that have no place in our community,” according to a statement from the university president, the Rev. Jeffrey P. von Arx.
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Return to Sender
The University of California at Irvine is walking away from two gifts to establish endowed chairs in Hindu and India studies after faculty members and students raised concerns about the ideology of the donors and the influence they sought to exert in the search process. The gifts in question came from the Dharma Civilization Foundation, a California entity that seeks to fund the academic study and teaching of Indian religions as a corrective to what it describes as widespread misrepresentations of Hinduism by scholars who do not practice the religion.
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Study Abroad For All At Cedar Crest College
Cedar Crest College beginning in spring 2018 will guarantee every sophomore in good standing the chance to study abroad - at no extra cost beyond regular tuition, the school announced Monday. Full-time sophomores with a minimum 2.5 GPA will get the chance to spend seven to 10 days in another country with their classmates under the program. The trip will take place over spring break, and no class time will be missed, the college said. The college estimates the vast majority of the 180 to 200 students in the class will participate.
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Hispanic Serving Institutions: A Home for the In-betweeners
Paola Esmieu of the Graduate School of Education, a Law School student, writes about Hispanic-serving institutions.
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2 Keys to Success for Underprivileged Students: When to Start College, and Where to Go
Laura Perna of the Graduate School of Education is quoted about the importance of high schools on students’ journey to college.
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A Rising Call to Promote STEM Education and Cut Liberal Arts Funding
When the Kentucky governor, Matt Bevin, suggested last month that students majoring in French literature should not receive state funding for their college education, he joined a growing number of elected officials who want to nudge students away from the humanities and toward more job-friendly subjects like electrical engineering.