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Word of the Day: abyss

[ad_1] The word abyss has appeared in 120 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on March 10 in the Opinion essay “Why ‘Everything Everywhere’ Will Probably Win Best Picture” by Ross Douthat: And so maybe it will be fitting if the Academy — which already illustrated the multiverse’s forking paths the year it …

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AAUP criticizes Emporia State

[ad_1] The American Association of University Professors today issued a report condemning Emporia State University, in Kansas, for “unilaterally terminating the appointments of 30 tenured and tenure-track faculty members” and said that by doing so “the administration of Emporia State University violated AAUP-recommended standards on academic freedom and tenure.” The report also said, “The absence …

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College Board will change AP in African American Studies

[ad_1] The College Board announced on April 24 that it will make changes in the controversial new offering in African American studies. The current “framework” released for a full pilot in the next year has been widely criticized by scholars in the field for giving short shrift to many topics in the modern period. Conservatives, led …

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Seven nursing faculty members quit at Henderson State

[ad_1] Seven nursing professors have recently quit their jobs at Henderson State University to protest budget cuts, THV News reported. The Arkansas university has declared financial exigency. “Change is hard, and on a college campus where the majority of changes are people, there’s an understandable reaction,” Chancellor Chuck Ambrose said. “Fear, anxiety, hurt, and sometimes …

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How George Mason law became a conservative center

[ad_1] George Mason University’s law school, the Antonin Scalia School of Law, has emerged as a prominent conservative law school. An article in The New York Times explores the law school’s connections to Supreme Court justices Neil M. Gorsuch, Clarence Thomas and Brett M. Kavanaugh. “The documents [from an open records request] show how Scalia …

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