Articles
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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
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Higher Education
From climate justice to transgender studies, Oklahoma higher ed is hiring
If you doubt that progressive indoctrination is widespread in Oklahoma’s tax-funded higher education system, simply visit the website of The Chronicle of Higher Education on any given day and peruse the job postings.Brandon Dutcher | January 5, 2021
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Higher Education
OU strategic plan will impose expensive, coercive diversity regime
On July 28, 2020, the University of Oklahoma Board of Regents approved a new strategic plan.David Randall, Ph.D. | November 20, 2020
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Higher Education
Historian promotes balanced version of U.S. history
For roughly three decades, Wilfred McClay has taught United States history, but he only recently decided to take the plunge and write his own American History textbook for teenage students after concluding the available alternatives were “simply not adequate to the task of creating that sense of living and nourishing connection to the past.”Ray Carter | November 19, 2020
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Budget & Tax, Higher Education
Higher education’s budget request unrealistic
The Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education recently released their budget request for the upcoming fiscal year starting on July 1. That request looks to increase the budget for higher education by 11.5 percent, a nearly $90 million increase.Curtis Shelton | November 16, 2020
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Higher Education
Transparency needed in campus diversity training
Not only colleges’ budgets should be open for review, but so should the content of what they teach faculty, staff, and students.Adam Kissel | November 6, 2020