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

The Hechinger Report

History reminds us that counterattacks have followed every advancement in equity and inclusion, from Brown vs. Board of Education to affirmative action. Universities would do well to consider requiring DEI seminars as part of orientation and encourage faculty to include DEI content in every course.

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Short Course: The Logic & Best Practices of Process Tracing (QMMR A)

Political Science Now

While the examples are primarily drawn from international relations and comparative politics, the methods we discuss are applicable to all the subfields of political science, to sociology, economics, history, business studies, public policy, and many other fields.

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Nearly all the seniors at this charter school went to college. Only 6 out of 52 finished on time

The Hechinger Report

But he spoke up in Romantic Literature, and he helped other students with their African American Religious History papers. She sat in the front row for the sociology and biology seminars, but couldn’t concentrate in a room with more than 30 classmates. psychology class. By the second semester, Barnes was on academic probation.

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 Amid clampdown on DEI, some on campuses push back

The Hechinger Report

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.

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Are science lecture classes sexist?

The Hechinger Report

Both men and women complain that it’s harder to get A’s in college science and math classes than in, say, sociology and history. And they’re right. But it turns out that women are suffering a much larger “grade penalty” in the sciences than men are. “But I’m afraid that it is.”.

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College Uncovered, Season 2, Episode 8

The Hechinger Report

She’s a sociology professor at the University of Virginia and coauthor of the book Academically Adrift. Catherine Epstein: We have the papers of some relatively famous alums, and then we have lots of information just on the history of the college. Kirk: Nicola Courtright teaches art history at Amherst. Archivist: Great.

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‘I can tell you don’t agree with me’: Colleges teach kids how to hear differing opinions

The Hechinger Report

So too could the Supreme Court’s affirmative action ban , said Natasha Warikoo, a professor of sociology at Tufts University: By potentially reducing overall diversity on campuses, the court’s decision adds to the pressure on institutions to ensure that students from different backgrounds have meaningful interactions.

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