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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
10/13/2020
Higher Ed’s Shameful Silence on Diversity
by Hasan Kwame Jeffries
Right-wing diatribes about diversity training often ended with a call for Trump to issue an executive order banning federal agencies from holding them. So it was not unexpected when, on September 22, Trump signed an executive order forbidding diversity training within the government.
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SOURCE: Washington Monthly
10/5/2020
Princeton, Betsy DeVos, And The Need For a Real Debate About Race
by Jonathan Zimmerman
Although the Department of Education investigation of Princeton is likely in bad faith, Jonathan Zimmerman contends that Princeton's self-flagellation about its institutional racism reflects a rising orthodoxy, not a deep debate about how the university operates.
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SOURCE: Association of University Presses
10/8/2020
AUPresses Statement on US Executive Order on Combatting Race and Sex Stereotyping
The international association of scholarly publishers calls the Trump adminstration's attacks on critical race theory and antiracism training a "chilling and frankly un-American" attack on intellectual inquiry.
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SOURCE: Daily Iowan
10/5/2020
University of Iowa Will Halt Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Training After White House Executive Order
The university's statement claimed in essence that the threat of losing federal grants and contracts could not be ignored.
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9/8/2020
Trump Attacks Racial Sensitivity Training, 1619 Project
Trump apparently wants to make acknowledging the existence of racism a campaign issue.
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SOURCE: USA Today
8/11/2020
Kamala Harris Vice Presidential Pick Launches Biden Towards A Cabinet That Looks Like America
by Lindsay M. Chervinsky
Joe Biden's selection of former rival Kamala Harris suggests he will follow other successful presidencies and appoint a cabinet that brings different views to policy discussions.
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SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
5/22/2020
From Associate to Full Professor
by Keisha N. Blain
Although securing tenure and tenure-track jobs has received great attention lately, it is important that historians from underrepresented groups successfully pursue promotion to full professorship in their institutions to diversify leadership in the profession.
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SOURCE: NBC News
5/25/2020
The Coronavirus Is Threatening Diversity In Academia
As budgets are stricken and mass layoffs become routine, scholars of all levels are fighting back to make sure diversity in academia won’t become collateral damage in the pandemic.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
4/17/2020
Americans Must Embrace Hope, Not Fear
by Kevin M. Schultz
Amid covid-19, it’s time to come together and recognize that diversity is an asset.
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SOURCE: New York Times
3/30/2020
Penguin Classics and Others Work to Diversify Offerings From the Canon
Across the industry, publishers are releasing titles by authors who were previously marginalized or entirely lost to history.
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3/27/2020
DC Comics and the American Dilemma of Race
by Patrick L. Hamilton and Allan W. Austin
Superhero popular culture has always been embedded within American racial attitudes, reflecting and even contributing to them in ways that reveal goodwill is not sufficient, in and of itself, to fix our problems.
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SOURCE: AHA Perspectives on History
12/2/19
James Grossman Writes Article on Career Diversity: "Revising Revisited: Words Matter When It Comes to Career Diversity"
by James Grossman
Historians need to write and speak carefully. A single word or phrase, a particularly evocative metaphor, can undermine a nuanced argument pointing in a very different direction.
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SOURCE: Smithsonian
10-15-18
The Dawn of Television Promised Diversity. Here’s Why We Got “Leave It to Beaver” Instead.
Using original archival research and FBI blacklist documents, a new book pieces together the intersectional narratives that never made it on air.
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SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
3-28-18
Stanford’s Priya Satia says "The Whitesplaining of History Is Over”
“The struggle to diversify the academy remains an uphill battle; institutional biases are deeply ingrained, and change evokes nostalgia for times past."
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SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
3-15-18
"Multiple Steves and Pauls": A History Panel Sets Off a Diversity Firestorm
Niall Ferguson conference at Stanford is being attacked for featuring 30 white men and not one woman.
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SOURCE: Newsweek
9-14-17
Is Diversity Tearing the United States Apart?
by Victor Davis Hanson
If America’s set of values becomes a pick-and-choose potpourri, there is no unity. And then America will certainly become yet another one of history’s casualties of diversity.
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SOURCE: reason.com
7-27-16
Hamilton College conservative historian questions diversity requirement
Robert Maquette says the faculty never bothered to define diversity.
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SOURCE: Minot Daily News
9-30-13
UW-Madison Ph.D candidate has meltdown over required diversity training
by Andrea Johnson
Jason Morgan objected to being "re-educated."
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SOURCE: AP
6-21-13
CU launches diversity study
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — University of Colorado regents are conducting a survey to determine whether the school respects diversity for people who disagree on politics, race, gender and sexual orientation.The survey, which was approved Thursday by University of Colorado regents, is planned for the upcoming school year on all campuses.Some conservatives have expressed concern that many educators are too liberal, while other critics have complained that some school officials are intolerant of social differences.In March, the university hired a history professor to be the resident conservative at the Boulder campus. Steven Hayward will serve as the school's first visiting scholar in conservative thought and policy, a temporary position paid by more than $1 million in private funds....
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