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OPINION: This is no time to ban DEI initiatives in education; we need DEI more than ever

The Hechinger Report

Education administrators at all levels need to act now to resist a rising tide of efforts against social science knowledge. Universities would do well to consider requiring DEI seminars as part of orientation and encourage faculty to include DEI content in every course. But a different tactic is typical in DEI classes.

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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. Scholars in the social sciences and humanities must put our ethical values and critical thinking tools to work to explicitly challenge such “post-truth” distortions.