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Higher Education
OU backs down in anti-Christian grading controversy
After weeks of controversy, the University of Oklahoma has removed a graduate teaching assistant from classroom duties following an investigation into the zero he gave student Samantha Fulnecky for a paper expressing her Christian beliefs.Brandon Dutcher | December 29, 2025
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Higher Education
Out-of-state students leave Oklahoma after graduation
State data show that two-thirds of nonresident OU graduates leave Oklahoma within five years, compared to more than 80 percent of in-state graduates who remain.Ray Carter | December 18, 2025
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Higher Education
OU professor to promote ‘accurate’ science education on evolution, climate change
A University of Oklahoma associate professor has been named a 2025 Sound Science Fellow by the National Center for Science Education. The fellowship is “aimed at advancing the teaching of evolution, climate change, and accurate scientific education.”Ray Carter | December 15, 2025
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Higher Education
Time for OU regents to act
The University of Oklahoma continues to draw national attention for ideological theatrics. It’s time for the OU regents to lead rather than spectate.Jonathan Small | December 15, 2025
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Higher Education
Survey shows college students support violent responses to unwelcome speech
A new nationwide survey taken after the Sept. 10 assassination of Charlie Kirk shows a significant share of college students—especially those on the political left—now believe that physical retaliation can be justified in response to speech they dislike.Ray Carter | December 11, 2025
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Higher Education
Oklahoma regents cut some low-graduate programs, keep most
A recent review by the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education found that 357 degree programs at state colleges and universities produced fewer than five graduates on average over a five-year span. Fully 295 of those degree programs will continue, while 41 are being eliminated and 21 are being suspended.Ray Carter | December 10, 2025
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Higher Education
Second OU instructor accused of discrimination
After an OU graduate instructor with “she/they” pronouns gave a Christian student a zero on an essay, a second instructor (also with “she/they” pronouns) now faces allegations of viewpoint discrimination.Ray Carter | December 8, 2025
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Higher Education
OU Graduate Student Senate defends discrimination
At the University of Oklahoma, escalating campus radicalism is on display as the Graduate Student Senate urges administrators to condemn a student who objected to receiving a zero on a reaction essay in which she argued there are only two sexes and that gender roles are rooted in biological reality.Ray Carter | December 5, 2025
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Higher Education
OU student: No intent to cause controversy with essay
University of Oklahoma junior Samantha Fulnecky says she was blindsided when her reaction essay—arguing that gender is binary and grounding her view in Christian convictions—earned a zero. She says she didn’t know her online instructor identified as transgender and wasn’t trying to provoke anyone.Ray Carter | December 3, 2025
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Higher Education
OU probes claim of religious discrimination after student given zero
A University of Oklahoma instructor has been placed on administrative leave while officials investigate a junior student’s allegation that she was discriminated against for expressing Christian beliefs in an assigned “reaction paper” on gender.Ray Carter | December 1, 2025