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articles from The Hatchet

'What's New Buff and Blue': Exploring the spooky spots in D.C.
Podcast host Sarah Sachs speaks with the revenant of Samuel Chase about the allegedly haunted spots throughout D.C.
'Getting to the Bottom of It': Encouraging student voter turnout
On this week's episode of "Getting to the Bottom of It," podcast host Alec Rich speaks with guests about student voter turnout.
Sports history: Women’s soccer notches undefeated season
The 2015 women’s soccer program went on a historic 13-game winning streak to clinch the Atlantic 10 regular season title for the first time since 1995.

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articles from Inside Higher Ed

Colleges start new programs
Adelphi University is starting a B.A. in international relations. Mount Mary University, in Wisconsin, is starting a four-year bachelor of science […]
Author discusses his new book about what students don't know about student activities
Who in higher education hasn't heard that students should participate in extracurricular activities to "find themselves"? But what if they don't? […]
Transfer enrollment is down, too, Clearinghouse report finds
Transfer enrollment is down 4.7 percent compared to last fall, according to the latest report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research […]

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articles from the Chronicle of Higher Ed

Covid-19 Cuts Hit Contingent Faculty Hard. As the Pandemic Drags On, Some Question Their Future.
Instructors on the margin wonder if their jobs will come back.
Our HyFlex Experiment: What’s Worked and What Hasn’t
Armed with a can-do spirit, faculty members leaped into hybrid teaching this fall. The results have been decidedly mixed.
Transitions: New President at Dominican U. of California; 2020 MacArthur Fellows Named
Dominican University of California's vice president for academic affairs and dean of the faculty will become its next president.

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from the New York Times

Kushner, Employing Racist Stereotype, Questions if Black Americans ‘Want to Be Successful’
In a “Fox & Friends” interview, President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser also criticized protesters as more concerned with what he called “virtue signaling” than in coming up with “solutions.”
Colleges Are Slashing Budgets During the Coronavirus Pandemic
Liberal arts departments, graduate student aid and even tenured teaching positions are targets as the coronavirus causes shortfalls.
Colleges Are Slashing Budgets
The pandemic has pushed higher education institutions to the brink.

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articles from the Washington Post

Federal judge rules students have no constitutional right to civics education — but warns that ‘American democracy is in peril’
In an extraordinary decision, the judge commended the students for bringing the suit and said it indicated a deep flaw in America's education priorities and policies and that he is worried about the country's future.
Teaching kids to spot misinformation on social media — and whether enough is being done to get rid of it
New lessons from the News Literacy Project.
In a steely anti-government polemic, Betsy DeVos says America’s public schools are designed to replace home and family
Appearing at a Christian college, she also said what she will do if she gets a second term as education secretary.

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The Undercommons

Battling with the University for the University: Organizing, Friendship, and Performativity in the NYU Sanctuary Movement
[Photo: Ryan Quan from NYU News] by James McMaster and Olivia Michiko Gagnon What follows is not an account of escalating strategies and spectacular confrontations. That can be found in the news. Consider this a fragmentary homage to and audit of the ideological and intimate micropolitics of […]
Join us for our first open online strategy session March 25, 3:45pm EST
All those who struggle within, against and beyond the neoliberal, neocolonial university are invited to join us on March 25 (15:45-17:15 EST) for a special online/offline strategy session, broadcasting live from the Organizing Equality conference in London, Ontario. This session aims to share and […]
CFP: From Sanctuary to Sabotage: Fighting the Fascist Creep at and beyond Universities
CALL FOR PROVOCATIONS (April 30, 2017) The 2016 US election has been framed as both a decisive break from “politics as usual” and as a continuation and intensification of longstanding racialized, gendered, and sexualized global class warfare. In this allegedly post-truth era, the university […]

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