universities

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• SOURCE: Spectrum News
  8/17/2020
  

  UNC Chapel Hill Cancels In-Person Classes as Coronavirus Cases Climb

  "It shouldn't have taken so many infections," said UNC-CH history professor Jay Smith.

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• SOURCE: The Sentinel (Carlisle, PA)
  7/26/2020
  

  Monument Movement: Historians Ask Who is Missing from Community Memorials

  Dickinson College's House Divided Project researched the complex role of the school in slavery. The result? A dormitory and a gateway to the campus will be renamed to acknowledge prominent African-Americans in the college's history.

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• SOURCE: American Prospect
  7/23/2020
  

  Back to School

  by François Furstenberg

  It’s not that university leaders necessarily want to open their campuses with new outbreaks looming in the fall. It’s that their business model leaves them no alternative.

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• SOURCE: DCist
  7/20/2020
  

  George Washington University Is Reconsidering ‘Colonial’ Moniker

  “Colonialist, terrorist, murderer. In a lot of places that’s what colonials mean to people,” said one student. “Why would we continue to call ourselves that?”

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• SOURCE: NJ.com
  7/1/2020
  

  Did Rutgers Find The Perfect President For 2020? Meet Jonathan Holloway, Black Historian.

  On Wednesday, the student of the past makes history himself by becoming the first Black president of Rutgers University, founded in 1766.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/26/2020
  

  We’re Reopening Notre Dame. It’s Worth the Risk.

  by John I. Jenkins

  The President of the University of Notre Dame argues that the university's mission is a higher good that requires informed and cautious embrace of risk. 

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  5/19/2020
  

  College Calendars in the Pandemic: No Fall Break and Home by Thanksgiving

  As universities announce plans to bring back students, a pattern is emerging: shorter semesters to avoid late-fall infections.

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  5/19/2020
  

  When University Leaders Fail

  by François Furstenberg

  A university governed by long timelines and long-term thinking grows conservatively and cautiously and prepares itself prudently for potential crises. If you turn a university into a giant corporation, on the other hand, it will rise and fall with the business cycle.

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  5/15/2020
  

  Faculty Cuts Begin, With Warnings of More to Come

  Faculty grow wary of cuts to instructional staff as universities respond to fiscal crisis.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  5/14/2020
  

  Not the Same University

  Missouri Western cuts 30 percent of the faculty, along with programs in history, political science, sociology, economics, music and more.

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  5/12/2020
  

  California State U. System Will Conduct Most Fall Classes Online

  Chancellor Timothy P. White told California State trustees that it would be irresponsible to bring the system’s nearly 500,000 students back to its 23 campuses in the fall.

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• SOURCE: Daily Tar Heel
  5/10/2020
  

  Commission on History, Race and a Way Forward Hears from UVA Leaders, Looks Ahead

  A commission at the University of North Carolina looked to the University of Virginia for guidance on reckoning with the institution's historical involvement with slavery and the Confederacy.  

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/5/2020
  

  The ‘Public’ in Public College Could Be Endangered

  State legislatures are likely to respond to falling tax revenues by slashing budgets for public colleges and universities.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  5/5/2020
  

  Canaries in a ‘Toxic Mine’

  Professors at Ohio U say tenure-track faculty cuts can't simply be blamed on COVID-19, but rather long-term financial mismanagement.

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• 4/28/2020
  

  Updated: Campus Reopening Hits Major Snags

  COVID spikes threaten in-person instruction, community transmission defies administrative control, and technology may be unreliable. The latest on the new academic year.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4/24/2020
  

  What If Colleges Don’t Reopen Until 2021?

  "John Thelin, a University of Kentucky professor and the author of the definitive 'History of American Higher Education,' told me that he’s never seen anything like the dual crisis colleges are facing right now."

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• SOURCE: MacLeans
  4/15/2020
  

  During the Coronavirus, Academics Have Found Themselves in a Crisis of Their Work

  by Rinaldo Walcott

  I think now is the time for academics to be practicing a public pedagogy where humanists and social scientists engage the public beyond the university in what it means to be human.

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• SOURCE: WNPR
  4/14/2020
  

  Who Owns History? Connecticut Woman Sues Harvard for Family Photos (audio)

  More than 40 descendants of Louis Agassiz support Tamara Lanier’s efforts and have written an open letter to Harvard asking the university to relinquish the photos. 

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  3/18/2020
  

  Use What You Know: Online Teaching Tools

  by Kevin Gannon

  Many historians have already been doing this kind of teaching online, so there might not be the need for you to re-discover fire.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  1/16/20
  

  Universities must open their archives and share their oppressive pasts

  by Evadne Kelly and Carla Rice

  The archives of academic institutions can tell previously untold stories of eugenics. Universities can begin to undo oppressive legacies by opening them to artists and communities.