This page features brief excerpts of stories published by the mainstream
media and, less frequently, blogs, alternative media, and even obviously
biased sources. The excerpts are taken directly from the websites cited in
each source note. Quotation marks are not used.
Source: American Federation of Teachers
2/27/2023
"Simply put, it would make Florida’s colleges and universities into an arm of the DeSantis political operation."
Source: New York Times
2/12/2023
If the Vermont Senator has failed to win the presidency or to rally the Democratic establishment to his positions, he may yet be able to force CEOs to answer questions publicly about how their business practices harm workers, consumers, and the environment. Will it inspire a left turn in the electorate?
Source: Washington Post
2/23/2023
Bert Ellis's text conversations with other Republican appointees to the university's Board of Visitors show his adamant opposition to recognizing the history of slavery in building the institution, diversity initiatives, and other changes to UVA traditions, pledging a "battle royale for the soul" of the institution.
Source: The New Republic
2/23/2023
Texas Senator Ted Cruz decried efforts to "sanitize history" and argued that "the journey of the United States has been a steady journey toward freedom" by way of explaining why he did not support removing segregationist Senator Richard Russell's name from a Senate office building. But few Democrats will candidly support change either.
Source: The New Republic
2/21/2023
by Timothy Noah
Sociologist Daniel Bell described ideology as "the commitment to the consequences of ideas." If this doesn't describe the GOP today, the author wonders how well the term "party of ideas" ever applied.
Source: Bloomberg CityLab
2/22/2023
The river was a central thread in the city's industrial development and growth, and a punchline for its decline. Can it become a place Clevelanders love?
Source: Associated Press
2/22/2023
Conservative lawmakers invoked the specter of child sexual exploitation to argue for defunding the leading American center for research on human sexuality.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
2/22/2023
The center was proposed through an end-run around faculty governance and pushed by influential lobbyists committed to fighting supposed "ideological uniformity" on campus. Is it a partisan invasion or a nonpartisan effort at civic education?
Source: New York Times
2/16/2023
The Bidens hosted a group of about 100 historians, civil rights leaders, and members of Congress to screen the biographical film adaptation of the story of Emmett Till and his mother's quest for justice.
Source: Miami Herald
2/17/2023
Six colleges are known to have complied with a request by the governor's office for information about health services provided to transgender students, which student leaders say is part of a threat to gender-affirming healthcare in the state.
Source: New York Times
2/15/2023
The Times court reporter Emily Bazelon dives into the decision by Justice Powell to decide the 1978 Bakke case through reference to "diversity" instead of racial justice, a rationale that stripped away much of the unjust history of higher education.
Source: Substack
2/20/2023
by Peter Beinart
Peter Beinart says that Jimmy Carter's 2007 book "Peace Not Apartheid" had flaws, but many of its harshest critics ignored whether its claims about the Israeli occupation were factual and leaped to insinuation and outright accusation that Carter was motivated by antisemitism.
Source: The Nation
2/20/2023
The paper's now-notorious reluctance to cover the growing AIDS crisis and insistence on using clinical terminology like "homosexual" to describe gay men are now seen as failures of journalism. Is the paper's recent coverage of transgender issues following the same path?
Source: New York Times
2/21/2023
The grand jury forewoman suggested that the identities of the parties recommended for indictment were "not rocket science" and that no one will be surprised when the names are revealed.
Source: The Root
2/15/2023
Governor Phil Murphy announced that the course will appear in 26 high schools (instead of the current 1), but the move is largely symbolic because of changes made to the course and the tiny percentage of the state's schools adopting the course.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
2/20/2023
Samuel Joeckel, who works at a private Christian university in Florida without tenure, claims that the Palm Beach Atlantic University provost came to his classroom to tell him that his contract would be reviewed after a parent complained about "indoctrination" in his class.
Source: WTOP
2/21/2023
A photo used by the school district for years to mark its history didn't identify Robert Christian, then 12 years old, until now.
Source: Texas Monthly
2/16/2023
Advocates of privatizing public schools have bankrolled and organized parents' groups around a range of values issues with the goal of undermining confidence in local schools. In Texas, it seems to be working to break down the longstanding opposition of rural families to voucher programs.
Source: Washington Post
2/14/2023
Data stretching back to 1898 show mosquitoes spreading further from the equator in Africa year by year, with recent acceleration consistent with climate change estimates.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
2/14/2023
Students say that the proposed training facility in south Atlanta will prepare more police to engage in paramilitary suppression of protest and denounced statements by administrators pledging support for "Cop City."
