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NCAA silent on GOP governors’ call to exclude men from women’s sports

Giovanna Johnson - Gordon College — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 05:11:00 +0000

The National Collegiate Athletic Association has yet to publicly address a letter sent by nine Republican governors asking the group to rewrite its Transgender Student Athlete Policy to “protect, preserve, and encourage fairness in women’s athletics.” Although the association’s Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports discussed the transgender athlete topic at its Dec.

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CU Boulder requires candidates for conservative professorship to submit DEI statement

Giovanna Johnson - Gordon College — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 04:03:25 +0000

Applicants who seek a position as the “Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy” at the University of Colorado Boulder must submit a diversity statement to be considered. The job description states the program seeks “a highly visible individual who is deeply engaged in either the analytical scholarship or practice of conservative thought and policymaking, or both.

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$800,000 grant to help scholars better understand the psychology of faith

Giovanna Johnson - Gordon College — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 04:03:28 +0000

What can the psychological sciences teach theologians, philosophers — and even parents — to help with their efforts to perpetuate the Christian faith? A nearly $800,000, two-year grant funded by the John Templeton Foundation aims to help provide such guidance. The multi-disciplinary project, which launched this year and runs through 2025, will fund eight scholars as they engage in research…

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VMI alumni work to disrupt alumni donations to force school to end DEI programs

Giovanna Johnson - Gordon College — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 05:06:35 +0000

‘The only way you can influence them is by hurting their pocketbook’ The Virginia Military Institute continues to face intense pushback from an alumni group that opposes the military school’s ongoing diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. The activists in recent months upped their efforts by seeking to redirect the institute’s alumni fundraising in an effort to persuade campus leaders to…

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Report details ‘pervasive and relentless assault’ on Jewish and pro-Israel students nationwide

Giovanna Johnson - Gordon College — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 05:40:15 +0000

‘No other identity group is subject to such a relentless and organized attack on their identity’ The “nature, scope and trajectory” of threats to Jewish and pro-Israel students on over 100 college campuses continues to get worse, according to a report recently released by the AMCHA Initiative. The report cited the Israel-Hamas war as a driving force behind the increase. A comparison of the…

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Scholar’s ‘Abolish the Family’ speech hosted at UMass Boston

Giovanna Johnson - Gordon College — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 05:05:50 +0000

‘Challenging the rhetoric of motherhood’ Hillary Clinton once famously wrote a book titled “It Takes A Village.” One feminist scholar is taking that argument one step further, arguing children should be raised by society rather than just their parents. An expert on “feminist, trans and queer politics and philosophy,” scholar Sophie Lewis on Nov. 16 spoke at UMass Boston at an event named after…

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