Articles
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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
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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