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Notes from the UNI Education Summit

Dangerously Irrelevant

Anthropology professor at UNI, directs the New Iowans Center. University research and policy in an era of advocacy philanthropists and agenda-setting organizations. Foundations such as Gates and Lumina are bigger, more influential, more strategic, and directly involved in shaping federal and state education policy (K-16).

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 Amid clampdown on DEI, some on campuses push back

The Hechinger Report

Several weeks ago, for example, staff offices at Florida Atlantic University’s Center for Inclusion, Diversity Education and Advocacy in Boca Raton were vacant, with name plates blank and abandoned desks, plus LGBTQ+ flags, posters and pamphlets left behind. There is also mounting resistance to the laws. What’s next?”

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