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20 décembre 2015

Parents with a four-year college mindset

By Stefanie Botelho. In the thesis study, Parents’ Predispositions For Four-Year Universities as Discerned by Their Children, roughly 8 in 10 university students indicated their parents expected them to attend a four-year university. More...

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20 décembre 2015

Princeton agrees to weigh erasing Woodrow Wilson's name

By Stefanie Botelho. Princeton University's president, under pressure from African American student activists, said Thursday night that the school would begin a process to consider expunging the legacy of former President Woodrow Wilson from campus. More...

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20 décembre 2015

Why free higher education can't wait

By Tim Goral. Vermont Senator and Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders has come out in support of free public higher education as part of his campaign platform. Sanders' plan calls for the elimination of tuition at four-year public colleges and universities. This would be paid for through the implementation of a financial transaction tax, which is a tax of half a percent on Wall Street transactions and could raise close to $300 billion a year. More...

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20 décembre 2015

Immigration compliance aids foreign graduates

By David Rugendorf. Just imagine this nightmare scenario playing out at your institution of higher education: armed agents in navy blue “FBI,” “ICE” and “DHS” windbreakers wandering the halls, stuffing files into boxes marked for evidence, removing and taking possession of computer hard drives, and sealing off rooms with yellow tape. More...

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20 décembre 2015

Mirror, mirror: Reflections on race in higher education

By Nancy Cantor. What’s going on? Marvin Gaye’s plaintive question from decades ago echoes hauntingly today. With each new incidence of brown-skinned people being brutalized, it returns more bitterly to our lips, triggered by each new image from Ferguson to Tempe, Baltimore to Cleveland, Staten Island to Charleston … the list goes painfully on. More...

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19 décembre 2015

Will guns on campus lead to grade inflation?

By Jessica Smartt Gullion. On Thursday, December 10, a task force at the University of Texas at Austin recommended restricting guns in residence halls, at sporting events and in certain laboratories, but allowed them in classrooms. More...

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19 décembre 2015

Why Supreme Court case on race in admissions matters more than ever

By Liliana M Garces. In a number of recent incidents across the country, black students have expressed how they continue to experience hostility because of their skin color. These students have spoken of their feelings of isolation and disempowerment. More...

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19 décembre 2015

Why Thanksgiving tells a story of America’s pluralism

By Matthew Dennis. Thanksgiving has been a focus of autumn grade-school curriculum for a hundred years.
Because of its paradoxical combination of tradition and invention, its appeals to the past and to the future, its ancestor worship and its acceptance of diversity, Thanksgiving remains America’s most treasured celebration. More...

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19 décembre 2015

Where are the voices of indigenous peoples in the Thanksgiving story?

By Sarah B Shear. Thanksgiving is an important time, when schools teach the story of who we are and where we come from as a nation.
My own students have told me about the Thanksgiving story they learned in school, which focused solely on the survival of the Pilgrims and the friendly meal shared with “Indians.” More...

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19 décembre 2015

Unsurprised by Missouri – scholars on the roots of racial unrest on campus

By Kalpana Jain. On Monday afternoon, after days of protests against his failure to address urgent concerns over racism on campus, the University of Missouri’s President Tim Wolfe resigned.
This may have alleviated the immediate tension in Columbia, Missouri, but the wider debate over race relations on campuses is now spreading across the country. More...

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