New book names the "101 most dangerous academics in America." Some included feel honored, and others see McCarthyism.
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Ethnic studies
Jul 21, 2021
The California Community Colleges system will require students to take an ethnic studies course. The new policy follows legislation that established a similar requirement at the California State University system last year.
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January 31, 2006
“What you gon’ do with all that junk? All that junk inside that trunk?”While the Black Eyed Peas’ answer to those questions involves getting “love drunk off my hump,” some professors at the Berklee College of Music, in Boston, offer up an entirely different response to the lyrics -- one aimed at helping their students understand the “commercialization of hip-hop” and the role students have in evolving the genre.
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Professors call for a broader view of their programs -- and consider how to reach "resistant" white students.