Articles
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Higher Education
Woke architecture and ‘underrepresented identities’: Oklahoma higher ed is hiring
As higher education continues to force indoctrination throughout its faculty and students, It’s important that the regime of identity politics continues to be exposed.Brandon Dutcher | February 19, 2021
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Higher Education
OU tells staff: Embrace political correctness
In a mandatory diversity training program for staff, the University of Oklahoma has explicitly directed professors and other employees to embrace political correctness in their communication.Ray Carter | February 18, 2021
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Higher Education
Are Oklahoma parents getting what they pay for with college?
Whether parents are truly getting their money’s worth when paying for a child’s college tuition is a growing question not just in other states, but Oklahoma as well.Jonathan Small | February 15, 2021
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Higher Education
In the name of ‘diversity,’ OU opposes equality
The “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” training mandated at the University of Oklahoma advises students that support for equality is wrongheaded.Ray Carter | February 11, 2021
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Higher Education
‘Diversity, equity, and social justice’: Oklahoma higher ed is hiring
It’s time for Oklahoma’s governor and state lawmakers to consider Milton Friedman’s suggestion that perhaps we should be taxing universities rather than subsidizing them.Brandon Dutcher | February 9, 2021
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Higher Education
Does OU diversity training violate federal labor law?
The University of Oklahoma may be flirting with lawsuits alleging that they have created a hostile work environment with mandated diversity training material if that material blames white males for most of society’s injustices.Mike Brake | February 4, 2021
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Higher Education
Oklahoma college removes Land Run monument
A concrete depiction of the 1889 Oklahoma Land Run that stood for decades outside Oklahoma City Community College is no more—fallen as many monuments have to protesters who claim such historical artifacts wound their sensibilities.Mike Brake | February 3, 2021
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Higher Education
Touting ‘diversity’ and ‘inclusion,’ OU warns students ‘Boomer Sooner’ could be problematic
A mandatory diversity training program informs OU students that “Boomer Sooner” is steeped in racism and can represent a form of oppression.Ray Carter | January 28, 2021
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Budget & Tax, Higher Education
Colleges seek more state borrowing for professors
Last May, Gov. Kevin Stitt vetoed legislation authorizing $314.4 million in state debt to fund endowed chairs for college professors in Oklahoma, but members of the Legislature overrode Stitt’s veto.Ray Carter | January 15, 2021
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Higher Education
A strategic plan for OU
As I pointed out in a previous article, the strategic plan collates OU’s bureaucratic ambitions, hopes that the Oklahoma taxpayers will foot the bill, and betrays that its real ambition is to impose an expensive, coercive diversity bureaucracy on the university. The plan subordinates all other goals—including liberty and education—to enforcing and propagandizing for race and sex preferences.David Randall, Ph.D. | January 15, 2021