Articles
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Higher Education
Venables hire a model for other jobs
Venables’ hiring suggests that a process divorced from “diversity” mania and anti-Christian prejudice can produce good results.Jonathan Small | December 21, 2021
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Higher Education
Oklahoma professors oppose ‘woke’ math effort
Professors and professionals across the country, including some in Oklahoma, have urged K-12 schools to preserve higher-level math courses, which are now under attack because some racial minorities are underrepresented.Ray Carter | December 20, 2021
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Higher Education, Law & Principles
‘Land acknowledgement statements’ abound, but some say reparations needed
Virtue-signaling Oklahoma universities are awash in ahistorical “land acknowledgement statements.” But some activists say performative gestures are not enough: It’s time to give the land back, or at least provide free tuition for Native Americans.J.E. McReynolds | December 20, 2021
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Higher Education
OU seminar says male-female is ‘too limiting,’ marginalizes the ‘gender fluid’
The presentation materials stated that LGBTQ+ people are negatively impacted by being socialized into an environment that only offers two positively received gender options, male or female.Staci Elder Hensley | December 14, 2021
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Higher Education
BIPOC+ and LGBTQ: Oklahoma higher ed is hiring
Oklahoma’s higher education system has its own diversity-bloat problem.Mike Brake | December 13, 2021
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Higher Education
OU’s lobbying pays off for school, not student rights
OU’s courtroom victory may lead state lawmakers to revisit the issue.Ray Carter | December 2, 2021
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Higher Education
Though ‘allowed by contract,’ OU denies communist influence on curriculum
When skeptics concerned about the role and influence of Confucius Institutes on American college campuses began asking pointed questions a few years ago, they had no idea that at the University of Oklahoma, agencies of the oppressive Chinese communist government were allowed to select the curriculum and course material Oklahoma students were forced to use.Mike Brake | November 30, 2021
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Higher Education
Woke librarians and indigenous people of color: Oklahoma higher ed is hiring
Oklahoma’s institutions of advanced learning are promoting a Woke agenda.J.E. McReynolds | November 15, 2021
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Health Care, Higher Education
OU Health suggests hysterectomies for males?
In recent tweets, the official account for OU Health Services has indicated the organization will ignore state law regarding binary (male/female) listing of gender on birth certificates and that the organization may even direct biological males to doctors for hysterectomies.Ray Carter | November 12, 2021
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Higher Education
How do Oklahoma college degrees stack up on debt-earnings tests?
A common question among Oklahoma parents and policymakers is whether or not higher education is “affordable.” But in a new study, OCPA’s Curtis Shelton and the Cardinal Institute’s Adam Kissel explore what may be a more important question.Brandon Dutcher | October 29, 2021