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3 novembre 2018

Want to solve the world’s problems? Try working together across disciplines

The ConversationLabor Day is our New Year’s Eve. Rather than vowing to lose weight or spend less time on our phones, as college professors we head into the new school year with a different kind of resolution: to inspire and prepare our students to become agents of positive change. More...
3 novembre 2018

Why there’s so much inconsistency in school shooting data

The ConversationWhen National Public Radio investigated the inconsistency, they found that 161 of the Department of Education’s 240 shootings either did not occur or could not be confirmed by the school districts involved. Similarly, the American Civil Liberties Union contacted each school that allegedly had a shooting and found that 138 of the reported shootings were errors. More...
3 novembre 2018

Black student activists face penalty in college admissions

The ConversationBack when I taught at a predominantly white, selective liberal arts college, I came across a book called “Acting White? Rethinking Race in ‘Post-Racial’ America.More...
3 novembre 2018

Smith College incident is latest case of racial ‘profiling by proxy’

The ConversationSmith College has opened an investigation into a July 31 incident in which a staff employee called campus police on a black student who supposedly “seemed to be out of place.More...
3 novembre 2018

For universities, making the case for diversity is part of making amends for racist past

The ConversationThe Trump administration recently announced plans to scrap Obama-era guidelines that encouraged universities to consider race as a factor to promote diversity on campus, claiming the guidelines “advocate policy preferences and positions beyond the requirements of the Constitution.” More...
3 novembre 2018

What Harvard can learn from Texas: A solution to the controversy over affirmative action

The ConversationOpponents charge that taking into account an applicant’s race or ethnicity amounts to “reverse discrimination.” Supporters recognize that disadvantaged minorities have been losing ground under affirmative action. Blacks and Hispanics are less likely to attend a top college than they were 35 years ago. More...
3 novembre 2018

Tearing down Confederate statues leaves structural racism intact

The ConversationWhen protesters tore down the “Silent Sam” Confederate statue at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill on Aug. 20, it wasn’t just destruction of state property - a crime for which the protesters are now being investigated. More...
3 novembre 2018

The few humanities majors who dominate in the business world

The ConversationWe analyzed data from S&P Global on 2,262 corporate leaders – vice presidents and C-suite executives – in the U.S. today. According to the data, only 1.5 percent graduated in a humanities or liberal arts field.
History and psychology graduates are the two groups of humanities graduates most common in the executive ranks of the business world, followed by philosophy and linguistics graduates. People with degrees in music, drama and fashion were the least common.
The data also show that only 23 percent of humanities and liberal arts executives pursued an MBA, lower than the 26 percent rate for the total population of executives. A higher proportion of humanities and liberal arts executives also had Ph.D.‘s or master’s degrees. More...
3 novembre 2018

1968 protests at Columbia University called attention to ‘Gym Crow’ and got worldwide attention

The ConversationThis is what Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and Black Panther Party affiliate H. Rap Brown told a crowd of Harlem residents at a community rally in February 1967. More...

3 novembre 2018

Making college more affordable

The ConversationA college education has many funders. Federal and state governments provide support, as do the institutions of higher education themselves. More...

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