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“Claudine Gay was in Rome on a family vacation on Dec. 27 when Penny Pritzker, the leader of Harvard University’s governing board, called to ask: Did she think there was a path forward with her as the school’s president?”

Informative account of Gay’s resignation in the NYT.

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Dr. Gay was planning a “spring reset,” but some board members thought the plan “showed that she didn't understand the urgency of the expanding crisis.” Image
The first member of the Corporation to turn was Timothy R. Barakett, the treasurer.

(Others joined him, as we know, after having dinner with members of the Council on Academic Freedom at Harvard.)

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Board members received a fresh round of input from friends, family, and acquaintances over Christmas vacation: Image
And finally the pressure got to them: Image

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Dec 19, 2024
What is going on at George Mason University?

First, police found weapons and terrorist propaganda in the home of two SJP leaders.

Now, a third student at GMU, an Egyptian national, has been arrested by the FBI for allegedly planning an attack on the Israeli consulate in NYC: Image
From this @DailySignal piece by @Gundisalvus:
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Dec 18, 2024
BREAKING: The Idaho Board of Education has passed resolutions requiring the state’s public universities to:

-Shut down DEI offices and policies.

-Commit to political neutrality.

-Protect free expression.

-Provide free expression training to faculty, students, and staff.

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The DEI resolution says institutions

“shall not use personal identity characteristics in decisions affecting the employment or education of any employee or student.”

“shall not establish or maintain a central office, policy, procedure, or initiative that promotes DEl ideology.”
It also resolves that:

“no student resource or student success center serves students based on DEI ideology.”

“no institution employee or student shall be required to declare gender identity or preferred pronouns in any form of communication.” Image
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Dec 16, 2024
Why don’t more professors object to race-based discrimination in faculty hiring?

Consider the story of 79-year-old UC Riverside Professor Emeritus Perry Link.

He objected to “boosting” a candidate based on race and was subjected to a nearly two-year inquisition.

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In response to the attempt to boost the candidate, he wrote,

“[Candidate X] is lively and charming—and yes, Black, which is great—but I can’t say that I found his sophistication and experience up to the level of our top candidates.”

He also expressed concern that his “colleagues would…make the applicant’s race their ‘overriding criterion.’”Image
Someone complained, and he was asked to meet with administrators. They said he “upset people” but wouldn’t tell him how or why.

He was asked to resign from the search committee.

He refused, but Dean Daryle Williams removed him anyway — and then filed a complaint against him. Image
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Dec 8, 2024
NEW: Students at Sarah Lawrence College have published a strategy guide in which they say they were ANSWERING THE CALL OF HAMAS when they recently occupied a building and set up an encampment on campus.

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They call themselves “fighters in the Student Intifada” and declare that “the third stage of the Student Intifada at SLC has just begun.” Image
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They say “to escalate requires education” and report that encampment participants were educated “on the Palestinian resistance, the Student Intifada here at home, and the tactics used by other militant student movements.” Image
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Dec 5, 2024
BREAKING: The University of Michigan will stop using DEI statements in faculty hiring and promotion.

The decision was made by Provost Laurie McCauley and announced this morning.

This is a great day for @UMich and American higher education!

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A faculty committee recommended that the university “Discourage Solicitation of Standalone Diversity Statements” but didn’t want to give up screening faculty for their DEI commitments…
…so it added that “search committees and promotion committees should gather evidence for DEI contributions through submitted teaching dossiers, research agendas, and curriculum vitae” and made two further recommendations… Image
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Nov 21, 2024
🧵 Colleges have committed themselves to partisan political values, and now they “have no compelling justification for their existence to give when the opposing political party comes into power. We have nothing to say to the half of America who doesn’t share our politics.” Image
Colleges expected to be able to advance their political agendas without external opposition, but that is changing: Image
The politicization of teaching is a betrayal of one’s discipline and an abuse of power: Image
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