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Higher Education
OU, Tulsa professors promote impeachment
Seven Oklahoma law professors have signed a letter supporting the impeachment of President Donald Trump even though they “take no position on whether the President committed a crime.”Ray Carter | December 9, 2019
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Higher Education
Oklahoma colleges given low rating in free-speech report
A new report by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) finds that three major Oklahoma colleges maintain highly restrictive speech codes, and two others maintain policies that are less restrictive but still impose some barriers to free speech.Ray Carter | December 4, 2019
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Higher Education
A look at higher-education revenue in Oklahoma
Higher education’s state appropriations have fallen by 39 percent since 2008, but total revenues have grown by more than 9 percent. This is in large part due to the ever-increasing tuition rates at Oklahoma’s colleges and universities.Curtis Shelton | November 6, 2019
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Higher Education
Facing discrimination claims, OU settles with law professor
The University of Oklahoma has reached a settlement agreement with a law school professor whose Christian beliefs and writings made him the target of hostile articles in the student newspaper last year and resulted in his loss of two administrative positions.Mike Brake | September 13, 2019
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Education, Higher Education
Researcher offers proposals to improve Oklahoma teacher quality
A new report we recently released calls for changes that will make “a reinvention of teacher education plausible, attractive, and sustainable for the schools” and lead to better outcomes.Staff | August 21, 2019
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Education, Higher Education
Forming teachers: The education school challenge
Colleges and graduate schools of education are of critical importance—they prepare the teachers who will in turn prepare the rising generation of Americans for adult life and citizenship. Unfortunately, it has been clear for some time that education schools are, on the whole, not delivering the level of formation and training for teachers that parents, schools, and society have a right to expect.Greg Forster, Ph.D. | August 1, 2019
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Higher Education
Expert says politics, not logistics, keep college costs high
Many citizens feel the cost of college has become too expensive, noting the heavy student-loan debt that burdens people for years. Policymakers could significantly reduce the cost of college, according to one expert. But to do so, they’ll have to prioritize the needs of students over the clout of people who make their living off the excesses of the current system.Ray Carter | July 2, 2019
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Higher Education
OCPA still waiting for OU open records
Is the University of Oklahoma a campus rife with racism, hostility to other minority groups, and rampant threats, intimidation, and discrimination? Hopefully not, but there’s no way to tell for certain because the university has failed to respond to requests for details about complaints filed with the school’s bias hotline.Mike Brake | May 29, 2019
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Higher Education
Separate but equal at OU
The battle for integration for black Americans and other minorities lasted for more than 150 years and, on some fronts, continues today. That’s why it is so alarming to many observers of higher education that on many campuses today, things from student residence halls to graduation ceremonies have been increasingly balkanized by race or ethnicity.Mike Brake | May 15, 2019
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Higher Education
Officials give glimpse of plans for OU
The future of the University of Oklahoma will involve a continued focus on efficiency, fewer new buildings and an expansion of online learning, based on the comments of officials appearing before the Senate Education Committee.Ray Carter | May 7, 2019