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Andy Thomason
@arthomason
Editor at Chronicle of Higher Education
Assistant Managing Editor at the Chronicle of Higher Education. Author of Discredited: The UNC Scandal and College Athletics' Amateur Ideal. Mastodon: @andy@journa.host
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DeSantis Asked Florida Universities to Detail Their Diversity Spending. Here’s How They Answered.
Ron DeSantis asked Florida’s public colleges to detail their diversity programs and how much they cost. They answered. “Examples ranged from entire diversity offices to small student programs, like a Florida’s State Colleges Say They’ll Ban Promotion of Critical Race Theory
The presidents of Florida's 28 community and state colleges today released an unusual statement saying they would ban the promotion of critical race theory and intersectionality on their campuses. The First law schools, now medical schools?
News: Harvard Medical School, ranked number one by U.S. News and World Report, is pulling out of the magazine's rankings. The announcement follows the abandonment of the rankings by elite law schools A Harvard dean, Douglas Elmendorf, rejected a former Human Rights Watch director's proposed fellowship because of the group's supposed anti-Israel bias. According to someone who heard the dean's reaso Does Your Local Museum or University Still Have Native American Remains?
"The University of California, Berkeley still has the remains of at least 9,058 Native Americans that it has not made available for return." It'll be fascinating to see how the culture of New College of Florida meets the new trustees, some of whom will be bent on changing it. The "Hillsdale of the South"
Ron DeSantis has appointed Christopher Rufo and five others to the board of the New College of Florida in attempt to turn it into the "Hillsdale of the South." “It was just so much pressure to raise money at my institution.”
In being sentenced for her role in the college admissions scandal, Donna Heinel, a former senior athletic administrator at USC, said: “It was just so much pressure to raise money at my institution.” How to Sell a University
Good story about how High Point University used full-pay students to become "an all-inclusive vacation with a side of homework" — and the envy of many other small colleges. Fla. Governor Asked All Public Universities for Spending Data on Diversity and Critical Race Theory
Ron DeSantis is asking all the state's public colleges, not just the University of North Florida (as we reported yesterday), for details on their spending related to DEI and critical race theory. The A Florida College Is Quickly Assembling a List of Courses on Diversity. Why? DeSantis Asked.
Breaking news: The University of North Florida is frantically throwing together a list of all its courses related to DEI and critical race theory at the request of Gov. Ron DeSantis. By Dawn Chmielewski, Greg Roumeliotis and Anirban Sen LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK (Reuters) -Michael Bloomberg has expressed the desire to own a big-name newspaper over the years but has not reached out to Ru A couple Republicans in Kootenai County, Idaho didn't like what they were reading about college in America, so in 2020 they engineered a takeover of their local community college's governing board. As