Articles
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Higher Education
Many Oklahoma college degree programs not worth the money
A new report shows more than one in five degree programs offered by Oklahoma colleges are not worth students’ time and tuition because those degrees fail to produce income gains that offset the cost.Ray Carter | January 5, 2023
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Higher Education
Is OU neutral?
At a time when red-state policymakers in Florida and Texas are starting to get serious, it’s time for Oklahoma lawmakers to do likewise.Brandon Dutcher | December 28, 2022
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Higher Education
OSU documents focus on ‘gender confirmation’ surgery, transgender advocacy
A range of Oklahoma State University documents, obtained through an open-records request, describe the idea that heterosexuality is the prevalent norm in society as a Western “system of power,” dismiss biological sex as an “ambiguous” term, indicate that OSU officials will help train high-school students in transgender advocacy, and encourage individuals to seek out personal information from others in ways experts warn could prompt lawsuits in the workplace.Ray Carter | December 12, 2022
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Higher Education
The OU regents took an important first step. Here’s what to do next
OU’s free-speech decision is to be applauded. Now it’s time to adopt institutional neutrality. After all, the mission of a university is “the discovery, improvement, and dissemination of knowledge”—not the pursuit of so-called social justice.Jonathan Small | December 5, 2022
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Higher Education
Civil-rights complaint filed over Oklahoma colleges’ discrimination
A newly filed federal civil-rights complaint accuses 12 Oklahoma colleges of sponsoring academic programs that discriminate on the basis of race.Ray Carter | November 8, 2022
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Higher Education
Professor says OU groupthink undermines excellence
The ideological groupthink and pressure tactics that prevail at many state-funded universities ultimately undermine the purpose of education and highlight the need for reform, according to a professor who has examined the problem.Ray Carter | October 26, 2022
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Higher Education
CRT in OU teacher training
Oklahoma needs a range of new measures to ensure transparency in the training and licensure of its teachers and administrators, to find out just how much CRT is already in the state.David Randall, Ph.D. | October 17, 2022
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Education, Higher Education
Groups say reforms could attract teachers, reduce leftist influence
Policy groups from across the nation are calling for reforms to state teacher-licensure processes to increase the number of qualified candidates and reduce the control of left-wing ideologues over access to the teaching profession.Ray Carter | October 13, 2022
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Higher Education
Critical theory generates real harm, Oklahoma physician warns
As the principles of critical theories—which includes Critical Race Theory, among others—have seeped out of academic settings in colleges and into workplaces and public-school classrooms, the real-world harm generated by those theories’ implementation is becoming apparent, said a local speaker who has focused on the issue.Ray Carter | October 7, 2022
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Higher Education
UCO: broke and still digging
The University of Central Oklahoma is laying off faculty and cutting programs due to declining enrollment and chronic mismanagement, but still wastes time on conference content focused on DEI.Trent England | October 7, 2022