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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  6/5/2020
  

  The Only Way to Save Higher Education Is to Make It Free

  by Claire Bond Potter

  College was already a financial house of cards. Then coronavirus hit.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  6/12/19
  

  Free Speech on Campus Is Doing Just Fine, Thank You

  by Lee C. Bollinger

  Norms about the First Amendment are evolving—but not in the way President Trump thinks.

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• 5/26/19
  

  The Chinese Threat to American Higher Education

  by Mark S. Ferrara

  As President Trump’s nationalistic rhetoric and restrictive immigration policies have resulted in a 10 percent drop in international student enrollments on American campuses, China’s “Double First Class” plan aims to make forty-two of its universities into world-class institutions by 2050.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  4/14/19
  

  Long considered a high honor, the valedictorian tradition faces an uncertain future

  by John R. Thelin

  Though the tradition goes back to colonial times, the validity of valedictorian honor is increasingly being called into question. 

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• SOURCE: Salon
  3/31/19
  

  The truth about the "campus free speech" crusade and its myths that won't die

  by Jim Sleeper

  While critics of college "snowflakes" prop up a fake crisis, even "good liberals" misunderstand student outbursts.

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• SOURCE: One Class
  Accessed 4/4/19
  

  Should Higher-Ed Admissions Be Federally Regulated?

  What the data can teach us. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/2/19
  

  Humanities Endowment Announces New Grants Amid Old Threats

  The grants were announced two weeks after the Trump administration released a proposed budget for fiscal 2020 that called for closure of the agency, whose activities were described as lying outside of “core federal responsibilities.”

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  3/22/19
  

  To Understand The History Of Elite College Admissions, Just Follow The Money

  “Rich people have gotten their kids into college for, well, pretty much the history of colleges."

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• 3/21/19
  

  Trump's Executive Order Censors Free Speech on College Campuses

  by Ed Simon

  The House Un-American Activities Committee and the real intent of Trump's "free speech" executive order. 

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• SOURCE: Philadelphia Inquirer
  3/15/19
  

  Who’s the snowflake? We tenured professors, that’s who

  by Anita Bernstein

  Our freedom to say what we want is not only tolerated but celebrated.

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• 3/17/19
  

  Parents, College, Money, and the American Dream

  by Janet Golden

  At a time when less than 20 percent of Americans completed high school and far fewer went on to higher education, financial institutions told parents to start saving for college.  

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3/12/19
  

  Why the College-Admissions Scandal Is So Absurd

  by Alia Wong

  For the parents charged in a new FBI investigation, crime was a cheaper and simpler way to get their kids into elite schools than the typical advantages wealthy applicants receive.

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  3/8/19
  

  Whose History? Scholars and Students Attempt to Correct Years of Archival Neglect at Johns Hopkins

  Ideally the archive won't just serve the institution, but will face outward, toward the greater community. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/2/19
  

  Trump promises executive order that could strip colleges of funding if they don’t ‘support free speech’

  President Trump said March 2 he intends to sign an executive order mandating that colleges take steps to guarantee free speech to get federal research grants. 

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• SOURCE: New York Magazine
  2/9/19
  

  How NYU and Food-Service Giant Aramark Stumbled Into a Black History Month PR Fiasco

  Last February, a rather intense controversy erupted at New York University over the menu offered by one dining hall as part of a Black History Month celebration.