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Post-Election, More Interest in Canada’s Universities
Canadian universities are seeing a surge of interest from Americans since the election, The Globe and Mail reported. The University of Toronto's admissions website typically receives 1,000 visits a day from computers based in the United States. The day after the election, the site received 10,000 American visits. McGill University is reporting a surge of applications from Americans. The number of Google searches for "college Canada" and "university Canada" was twice as high the day after the election than any day in the last five years.
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Commentary: Trump Must Denounce Acts of Violence and Intimidation
Undergraduate student Taylor Hosking urges the president-elect to denounce acts of violence and intimidation documented since the election.
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How Race and College Intersected in the Election
A stark divide separated how white people voted in this presidential election: whether or not they had earned a college degree. Two-thirds of white working-class voters backed Donald J. Trump. Among white voters with college degrees, his support dropped by 18 percentage points, a gap more than twice as large as those seen in election results for his two immediate Republican predecessors.
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Science’s Minority Talent Pool Is Growing – but Draining Away
Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education is cited for writing about the faculty-hiring practices of universities.
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Professor’s Incendiary Rhetoric in the Age of Donald Trump
Kevin Allred, an adjunct in women's and gender studies at Rutgers University, has been placed on leave and barred from teaching amid a controversy over his comments on Twitter -- comments some say are threats of violence and others say are clearly rhetoric used to criticize President-elect Donald Trump. Rutgers informed the New York City Police Department of concerns about Allred last week (he lives in New York City), and police officers took him for a psychological evaluation and then released him.
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Mars: The Most Difficult Trip in the History of Mankind
David Dinges of the Perelman School of Medicine is mentioned for leading research about “Standardized Behavior Measures for Detecting Behavioral Health Risks During Exploration Missions.”
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How Students Play a Supporting Role in Campus Labor Movements
In October, when the Harvard University dining-hall employees’ union went on strike, students joined workers with picket signs and staged a sit-in of the lobby where negotiations were taking place. And before the strike, medical students challenged Harvard’s health-care proposals for workers. After nearly three weeks on strike, the workers finally reached an agreement with Harvard administrators, and the collection of students who helped catalyze the workers’ strike joined them in calling the fight a success.
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College Students Fear Deportation or Loss of Rights
When she was a child, Carimer Andujar remembers, federal immigration agents searched her neighborhood in Passaic. That was the first time that Andujar realized her immigration status made her vulnerable. Now a 21-year-old engineering student at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, Andujar worries about agents staging a raid on campus.
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In Defense of DACA
More than 90 college and university presidents have signed a statement calling for the continuation and expansion of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, under which more than 700,000 young people who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children have registered with the federal government in exchange for temporary relief from the possibility of deportation and a two-year renewable work permit. President-elect Donald J. Trump has said he would end the DACA program, which was authorized by President Obama by executive action.
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Political Intolerance Among University Faculty Highlights Need for Viewpoint Diversity
Philip Tetlock of the Wharton School and the School of Arts & Sciences is cited for the phrase “scientific hell.”