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DEI Statement Nixed After Professor Complains, Links to Racist Article

Mar 23, 2023

An English professor wrote in a conservative media outlet, opposing his department’s new “anti-racist statement.” The next month, the statement was gone. His own statement of protest linked to a racist column.

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‘It’s Our Responsibility’

A tweet from Kareem Tannous from April 2022 saying, "zio controlled USGOV politicians promise to cancel 2T$ in student debt so that #donkeydemocrats would elect them yet they sent that 2T$ to Ukraine, NATO, and Israel to arm NAZIs."

‘Antisemite of the Week’ Professor Says He Was Fired

Three darker-skinned students in a seminar room.

New Initiative Seeks to Provide Clearer Data on MSIs

The Power of Peer Interaction

Nov 03, 2020

New study shows student learning suffered during the switch to remote instruction last spring, but that small group activities helped reduce this loss.

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Connecticut College president is stepping down

March 24, 2023

Connecticut College president Katherine Bergeron is stepping down after facing protests and calls for her resignation.

DEI statement nixed after professor complains, links to racist article

March 23, 2023

New network calls for spotlight on Black student enrollment

March 23, 2023

A group of researchers, college leaders, business leaders and policy makers is calling on peers in higher ed to focus on Black student enrollment.

Professor says he was fired after Jewish groups denounced tweets

March 22, 2023

Last year, a watchdog organization publicly called out Kareem Tannous, then a tenure-track assistant business professor at Cabrini University, about his tweets. Tannous said he was fired, and he now plans to sue.

New database on minority-serving institutions launched

March 21, 2023

Scholars launched a new database focused on minority-serving institutions to create more clarity among researchers, policy makers and others about how to classify and study them.

Can Connecticut College's embattled president hang on?

March 20, 2023

Many faculty, staff and students are united in calling for Connecticut College president Katherine Bergeron to step down after a dean resigned in protest. So far, she’s resisting.

Journal places warning on flawed abuse-homosexuality study

March 20, 2023

A peer-reviewed journal placed a warning to readers last month on a flawed article from 2001. But the journal hasn’t retracted it, as a professor who discovered errors has called for.

Florida's Stop WOKE Act continues to be blocked in colleges

March 17, 2023

A panel of federal judges is keeping in place a block on Florida’s Stop WOKE Act while appeals progress.

Minnesota Catholic colleges cut languages, other humanities

March 16, 2023

Linked Minnesota Catholic institutions are downsizing languages and other humanities offerings amid declining enrollment.

Wellesley students want trans men to be allowed to enroll

March 15, 2023

Most women’s colleges don’t allow transgender men to enroll. But students at Wellesley are pushing for that to change—and for administrators to recognize those who already attend.

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