Behind closed doors: academic freedom under attack at UNC-Chapel Hill
Former provost dues UNC-Chapel Hill Trustees over closed meetings about eliminating tenure.
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We Are Not Unmindful of the Future
A champion for change at W&L and beyond. Anti racist. Anti fascist. Anti ignorance.
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Frederick Douglass still resonates
Frederick Douglass still has something to say for the current moment. Although these words were written after Lee's death, the bombast is all to present again today.
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The Charlie Kirk assassination: political violence and the dangerous path forward
By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of Kirk, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy as the American right calls for retribution and a crackdown on the political left.
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Not Unmindful weekly digest #8
It's been a busy week despite my limited schedule. New feature: starting the digest with the most recent story.
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UC Berkeley turns over 160 names to federal government
The University of California, Berkeley, is among the 10 universities that a Trump administration task force on antisemitism has identified for particular attention.
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Trump's education funding shuffle: a strategic shift toward separation
The Trump administration is cutting money from programs that have supported minority students, including at other universities, to CCBUs, while ending financial support minority programs.
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Harvard ends undergraduate minority recruitment program as Trump targets race in admissions
By ending the minority recruitment program in May, Harvard shuttered a more than 50-year-old initiative to encourage minority high school students to apply.
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Trump administration orders removal of slavery exhibits from national parks
The Trump administration is ordering the removal of information on slavery at multiple national parks in an effort to scrub them of “corrosive ideology,” including photo of enslaved man’s scars.
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Trump's $1.2 billion UCLA settlement is a blueprint for conservative campus transformation
The details of Trump’s $1.2-billion call to remake UCLA in a conservative image and its ramifications.
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Not Unmindful weekly digest #7
It's been a busy week despite my limited schedule. New feature: starting the digest with the most recent story.
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