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Higher Education
OU athletes required to watch anti-Trump film
Scholarship athletes at OU were required to watch and discuss a political documentary that compares former President Donald Trump and his supporters with violent segregationists in the 1960s.Ray Carter | June 7, 2021
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Higher Education
How Oklahoma colleges are spending $812 million in Covid relief
Oklahoma colleges and universities have already received, or will soon put in the bank, some $812,595,871 in federal funds from the various measures to offset costs associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.Mike Brake | May 26, 2021
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Higher Education
Oklahoma universities are teaching students to lie
The gender ideology sweeping academia really is totalitarian.David Randall, Ph.D. | May 20, 2021
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Higher Education
Coddle culture threatens core freedoms, Piper says
The coddle culture of colleges has now bled out into the broader culture and threatens basic freedoms, according to author and former Oklahoma Wesleyan University President Everett Piper.Ray Carter | May 12, 2021
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Higher Education
Ban on racist stereotyping contrary to OU’s goals, president says
The president of the University of Oklahoma has declared his opposition to a bill that prohibits colleges from requiring students to take any orientation “that presents any form of race or sex stereotyping or a bias on the basis of race or sex".Ray Carter | May 7, 2021
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Higher Education
OU professor plays role in Facebook ban of Trump
A University of Oklahoma law professor is a member of the Facebook Oversight Board that has upheld the platform’s suspension of former President Donald Trump.Ray Carter | May 6, 2021
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Higher Education
Landmark lawsuit targets Christian higher education
One of Oklahoma’s largest faith-based universities is among 25 higher education institutions named in a federal class-action lawsuit recently brought against the U.S. Department of Education.Staci Elder Hensley | May 6, 2021
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Higher Education
OU students, staff to be graded on ‘antiracism’
A new report issued by the Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture (GCA) at the University of Oklahoma reveals that students and staff in the architecture program could soon be evaluated for their support of “anti-racist” beliefs.Ray Carter | May 4, 2021
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Higher Education
The future of vocational education: flexibility and choice
New programs in Oklahoma and West Virginia point the way to a solution for vocational education: put the parents and students themselves in charge, and let them build an education that works.Greg Forster, Ph.D. | May 3, 2021
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Higher Education
OU gets warning on compelled speech
It’s hard to say what’s worse—that the University of Oklahoma is accused of trying to force staff and students to endorse positions they do not support, or that college leaders thought they could keep those efforts a secret.Jonathan Small | April 26, 2021