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: Chronicle of Higher Education
4/12/2023
President Steve Pettit, a relative liberalizer of the South Carolina school's strict codes of conduct and conservative sense of mission, is clashing with the chair of the Board of Trustees in a fight that symbolizes the choice between reform and retrenchment that faces many evangelical colleges.
Source: The Atlantic
4/13/2023
by J. Michael Luttig
The retired federal jurist observed oral arguments in a case that would allow state legislatures to reject judicial review in setting the rules of elections, potentially leading to politically-motivated mayhem in federal elections. He thinks that the Court will reject the theory.
Source: Smithsonian
4/15/2023
by Jocelyn C. Zuckerman
Because Belgian colonial policy insisted upon rigid lines of racial hierarchy, mixed-race children who were not acknowledged by their Belgian parent were made wards of the government and institutionalized.
Source: New York Times
4/17/2023
The author's father directed the live telecast of Adolf Eichmann's trial in Jerusalem, using a cinematographical approach to raise the harrowing question of how a bureaucratic mediocrity could have engineered a genocide. The Israeli government's growing concern with the victims eclipsed this curiosity about the perpetrators.
Source: New York Times
4/17/2023
New York's state Board of Regents estimates that 60 school districts still use Native-related nicknames or iconography. Under new policies, those schools would lose funding if they don't change the names.
Source: Dissent
4/18/2023
by Matthew Sitman
The committee's report will never be able to create or sustain closure on the Trump era or the hard right turn of conservatism; only voters and political organizers can do that.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
4/17/2023
Although campus communities are thankful when they don't experience gun violence, shootings have spawned another disruptive phenomenon: the mass shooting hoax. A campus security expert discusses how colleges can respond.
Source: Politico
4/17/2023
Although midterm elections aren't always a reliable indicator, educators believe that the appeal of "parents' rights" doesn't extend to efforts to undermine public schools.
Source: Business Insider
4/16/2023
Republican state officials in a party resolution appear to hold the position that "inglorious aspects" of American history are too divisive to be discussed in state institutions of highe education.
Source: ProPublica
4/17/2023
Journalist Dan Egan, a longtime follower of the environmental concerns of the Great Lakes region, has a new book examining the role of phosphorous-containing fertilizers in fueling agricultural prosperity and threatening the largest supply of fresh water.
Source: The Bulwark
4/17/2023
Barack Obama's administration left dozens of vacant federal judgeships for Donald Trump to fill. If the Biden administration repeats this, it won't be only due to Republican obstruction of nominees.
Source: The Atlantic
4/17/2023
Writer Jean Twenge says that by comparison to Boomers and Gen Xers at the same stage of life, Millennials aren't doing as badly as believed, though patterns of family formation and childbirth seem to be undergoing a permanent shift.
Source: JSTOR Daily
4/13/2023
As 90s nostalgia gets mined for commercial benefit, a researcher looks at the centrality of divorce in the cultural expressions of Gen X.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education
4/13/2023
Even though many state-level bills banning diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs have not yet taken effect, many campus administrations appear to have begun complying with the political pressure to roll back existing initiatives.
Source: Texas Tribune
4/11/2023
Attacks on tenure and diversity programs would threaten the improvements Texas politicians say they want to make in higher education in the state, say faculty advocates.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
4/10/2023
"Higher education has an extremely important role to play in helping people see things differently and in potentially helping to reduce racial inequality. But this requires cross-race interaction."
Source: New York Times
4/10/2023
Both Brexit and the recent revelation that Catholics outnumber Protestants in Northern Ireland introduce new tensions into the peace agreements reached in 1998.
Source: Bloomberg CityLab
4/6/2023
A new law in Virginia would declare the sites promoted as safe and welcoming for Black travelers in a widely-circulated travel guide from the segregation era to be historic and worthy of protection against development.
Source: The New Yorker
4/10/2023
At the time Manford began publicly supporting her own gay son and organizing a group for other parents of gay children, 49 states had laws criminalizing gay sex; the scope and bravery of her activism is difficult to appreciate today.
Source: The Atlantic
4/9/2023
by Adam Serwer
The Internet Archive is at the center of a case that would effectively require libraries to pay fees to lend electronic scans of books they properly own.
