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Liberty: The Uniter of Nations
On this day in 1886, President Grover Cleveland dedicated the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. Proposed as a gift by French abolitionist Édouard de Laboulaye, the statue was created to celebrate the centennial of America’s independence and to rekindle the Franco-American…
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Professors dispute notion America’s founding was based on slavery in new book
In keeping with the nation’s 250th anniversary, a new book “A Nation Born in a Day: Visions of the American Founding” brings together a collection of scholarly essays examining America’s founding and critiquing the claims made by “The 1619 Project.” “In 1776, America’s Founders…
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Learning from Leaders in Reform: Achieving ACTA’s Gold Standard for Freedom of Expression™
Out of the more than 60 universities the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) has evaluated using its Gold Standard for Freedom of Expression™, a 20-point action plan for returning higher education to its bedrock mission of excellence and open inquiry, a few…
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‘Urgent action’ needed: Vanderbilt chancellor says higher ed ‘not in a good state’ on free speech
Bad trustees, social media to blame for free speech erosion, panelists say The […] The post ‘Urgent action’ needed: Vanderbilt chancellor says higher ed ‘not in a good state’ on free speech appeared first on American Council of Trustees and Alumni .
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Nikole Hannah-Jones, the 1619 Project, and Bad Education Decisions
In this episode of Radio Free Campus, Steve McGuire and Justin Garrison discuss a recent New York Times article by Nikole Hannah-Jones, the driving force behind the 1619 Project, about her decision to prioritize ideology over educational opportunity when it came to enrolling her…
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Best Practices for a Last Best Hope
The number of civic institutes, centers, and schools at public universities has increased significantly since the first one, the School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership (SCETL) at Arizona State University, emerged in 2017. Beginning in 2021, nineteen new centers and…
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Humanities doctoral dissertations decline as identity politics surges: study
A study published Wednesday finds that American doctoral dissertations in history, literature, philosophy, arts and culture are becoming more critical of Western culture, even as fewer people complete them. The American Academy of Sciences and Letters reported that humanities…
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Zero Republican political science professors found at 4 major Pennsylvania universities, research shows
Professors registered as Democrats outnumber colleagues registered as Republicans by a 28 to […] The post Zero Republican political science professors found at 4 major Pennsylvania universities, research shows appeared first on American Council of Trustees and Alumni .
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AI reversing increases in higher education administration for the first time in decades
Artificial intelligence apparently is helping reverse decades of bureaucratic bloat at universities, whose nonteaching staff have increased faster than their faculty and student bodies, analysts say. The College and University Professional Association for Human Resources, a…
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October 7, Antisemitism on Campus, and Haverford Professor Guangtian Ha
In this episode of Radio Free Campus, co-hosts Steve McGuire and Justin Garrison talk about Guangtian Ha, a pro-Palestinian Haverford College professor facing federal cyberstalking charges for alleged antisemitic harassment of a Jewish faculty member and his family. They also…