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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. Cassanello feels compelled to object.

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Speaking Truth to Israel Requires More Than Academic Freedom

Sapiens

In December 2023, I attended an online seminar featuring the anthropologist Ghassan Hage , a leading expert on race and migration. But a few days before we met on Zoom to discuss the book, the news broke that Hage had been fired from his position at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Germany.