Racism

Racism

Chancellor Thomas L. Keon, a white man wearing glasses and academic regalia, stands at a lectern with the Purdue Northwest logo on it.
Jan 05, 2023
Purdue Northwest faculty members want Chancellor Thomas L. Keon to step down after a racist remark. Keon is clinging to his job despite a reprimand from the Board of Trustees.

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February 16, 2023
Colleges must take a more proactive role in helping students avoid indoctrination into white nationalism, Karen Gaffney writes.
January 5, 2023
Purdue Northwest faculty members want Chancellor Thomas L. Keon to step down after a racist remark. Keon is clinging to his job despite a reprimand from the Board of Trustees.
October 25, 2022
Activists at the University of Alabama want a racist term removed from the fight song. Other students argue it’s not racist, it’s “tradition.” The administration has yet to respond.
September 21, 2022
Their lives upended, two scholars targeted by the DOJ’s controversial anti-espionage program fight back in their own ways.
September 19, 2022
Harper Lee’s novel belongs on college-level syllabi for the very reasons it’s rightfully losing favor in secondary school curricula, Andrew Newman writes.
September 2, 2022
With little other information, the program’s lone tenured—now terminated—professor wonders if it’s about anti-Asian bias.
June 23, 2022
To really understand institutional racism at the University of North Carolina, look to its governance, past and present, Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn writes.
May 25, 2022
A building frequented by students, faculty and staff members of color at Queens College was vandalized with racist graffiti, resulting in months of strained discussions between staff members and administrators.
April 21, 2022
Saint Vincent College adopts new rules after many found speaker’s remarks at conference sponsored by college to be racist.
April 12, 2022
Timothy Messer-Kruse points out (satirically) that bans on promoting “divisive concepts” can liberate professors to suppress supremacist ideas in the classroom.

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