Articles
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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
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Higher Education
Conservative OU student group faces free-speech obstacles
“When you’re a conservative group on campus, sometimes you’ve just got to jump through a couple hoops, which is sad but that’s our reality.”Ray Carter | November 5, 2020
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Higher Education
Are Oklahoma universities violating Trump’s executive order?
Leading Oklahoma institutions of higher education are grappling with a recent presidential executive order that could suspend much or all of their federal grant funding if they engage in diversity and anti-bias training that crosses the line into what the order called “race and sex stereotyping and scapegoating.”Mike Brake | November 2, 2020
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Higher Education
OU response to ‘racist’ incident criticized by students
The response of administrators at the University of Oklahoma after a professor read a historical document that included a racial pejorative has left an impression on students—although perhaps not the impression OU administrators hoped to foster.Ray Carter | October 27, 2020
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Higher Education
Oklahoma colleges rank poorly for free speech
A new report shows the University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University rank 38th and 50th, respectively, out of 55 top national universities in their support of free speech.Ray Carter | October 26, 2020
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Higher Education
Sex discrimination in Oklahoma higher education
It appears that many programs at Oklahoma colleges and universities are discriminatory and violate Title IX.Adam Kissel | October 22, 2020