Between 2011 and 2022 alone, Black land-grant universities lost nearly $200 million in resources because states declined to provide them with matching funds while fully funding predominantly white universities, a new report notes.
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- Professors need to prepare themselves to discuss concepts like structural racism with their students this fall.
- Academics across the country are talking about how students struggle with reading: Many have weak vocabulary, are unable to analyze complex texts, or understand different points of view. Here's what they're seeing — and what may need to change. chroni.cl/3UH2sN5
- Telling students and professors to work remotely, while demanding that all academic staff members come in, sends a clear message about whose health matters.
- "Students who come into my office crying, they’re not crying about their papers, or their grades. … They’re coming in talking about microaggressions, about things that happen on campus, things people are saying to them."
- Walter Hussman, the UNC journalism school's biggest donor, says he asked the dean to say publicly that he hadn't pressured her about hiring Nikole Hannah-Jones. She refused.
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- Omar Wasow's findings suggest that nonviolent protest is more politically effective than violent protest. Critics view the research as “not helpful,” and even dangerous. chroni.cl/2BONvnY
- A new database of female historians trying to make it harder to include only white men on syllabi, panels, or in articles. chroni.cl/2sMOLA5
- To a student, the person teaching the first course they take in a discipline is the discipline. “If the physics professor is cool, then physics is cool.”
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- You can’t count on your publications and awards to take care of you. And more advice from someone who has a lot of experience thinking about academic careers: chroni.cl/2A7cqhx #CHEarchive
