The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

She sat in the front row for the sociology and biology seminars, but couldn’t concentrate in a room with more than 30 classmates. We underestimated the cultural gaps between the communities our students come from and the more elite highly selective institutions that a lot of people got placed into.”. I struggled with that.

Charter School 111

Charter School Psychology High School Private School 111

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2024

Robert Cassanello at the University of Central Florida in Orlando — one of the nation’s largest campuses with 70,000 students — warned in red ink on the syllabus for his graduate seminar on the Civil Rights Movement (as for all courses he teaches) that he “will expose you to content that does not comply with and will violate” anti-DEI laws.

Sociology 130

Sociology Advocacy Anthropology Government 130

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2024

She’s a sociology professor at the University of Virginia and coauthor of the book Academically Adrift. Amherst enrolls about 1,900 students and offers more than 850 courses, many of them small seminars. I study the stuff of culture and ideas and how those change. Kirk: That’s Josipa Roksa. Archivist: Great.

Humanities 88

Humanities Critical Thinking History Cultures 88

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The program, organized by a Kentucky-based nonprofit of the same name, had brought together 14 students from four universities in the state — a mix of secular, religious, urban and rural institutions — as part of a semester-long course on developing ways to communicate with people of different races, religions, cultures, politics and worldviews.

Teaching 105

Teaching Sociology History Cultures 105