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Professor pens ‘How to Avoid F***ing Up In College’ book

Alexander Pease - UMass Boston — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 05:01:06 +0000

ANALYSIS: Professor pens crass but clever how-to guide for students If famed comedian George Carlin were to write a book on practical steps young people can take to successfully get in and get out of college with a degree, it might look a lot like Arizona State University information systems Professor Matthew McCarthy’s new book “How to Avoid Fucking Up in College.” McCarthy…

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Oberlin appeals to delay and avoid paying multi-million dollar verdict to bakery it defamed

Alexander Pease - UMass Boston — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 04:05:18 +0000

Although an appellate court recently upheld a verdict that Oberlin College is responsible for tens of millions of dollars in damages for defaming the nearby Gibson’s Bakery, the private Ohio college has now appealed to the state’s supreme court. An Ohio appeals court ruled in late March that Oberlin College is on the hook for $25 million plus $6.2 million in attorney fees after a jury found the…

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‘Cancel Shakespeare’ course offered by premodern critical race studies professor

Alexander Pease - UMass Boston — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 04:10:38 +0000

‘You can’t make room for new voices without getting rid of some of the old’ A professor who specializes in premodern critical race studies offers a course called “Cancel Shakespeare” that aims to chip away at what the scholar contends is the notion that the Bard is only for white people. “I want to continue to fight the idea that Shakespeare—or any scholarly field—belongs to White people and…

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Scholars admit annual DEI trainings aren’t really effective

Alexander Pease - UMass Boston — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 05:00:37 +0000

Mandatory trainings, more ‘engrained’ anti-bias policies offered as solutions Traditional anti-discrimination trainings conducted on an annual basis aren’t sufficient — and studies show it. Instead, the status quo among a circle of DEI scholars is that inclusion efforts must occur on a much more consistent, regular basis. To be most effective, some scholars suggest mandatory trainings that are…

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Wisc. professors, public school leaders to help host two-day ‘white privilege symposium’

Alexander Pease - UMass Boston — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 05:01:01 +0000

Proponents and advocates of critical race theory in America’s Dairyland have an event to look forward to next month: a two-day symposium on white privilege. University professors, employees and public school teachers, staff and district administrators alike all maintain spots on the host planning committee for the La Crosse, Wisconsin, “White Privilege Symposium,” set to take place in early…

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Professor works to advance ‘fat justice’

Alexander Pease - UMass Boston — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 04:01:22 +0000

Scholarship aims to tackle issues such as ‘fatphobia’ and ‘sizeism’ A professor at Iowa State University is working to advance a concept called “fat justice” as part of his overall scholarly body of work highlighting those not traditionally centered in student equity and justice discourses. TJ Stewart, assistant professor in the School of Education at Iowa State, is known in academic circles…

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Loyola law professor: ‘Covid vaccine exemptions should not exist’

Alexander Pease - UMass Boston — Fri, 22 Oct 2021 04:04:21 +0000

A professor and program director at a prominent Catholic law school argues against religious exemptions for Covid vaccines, saying they should not exist. Jessica Levinson is a clinical professor of law at Loyola Marymount Law School in Los Angeles and director of its Public Service Institute. The professor recently wrote a column for MSNBC headlined “Covid vaccine exemptions should not exist.

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UMich hiring three ‘Racial Justice & Technology’ professors to battle ‘the new jim code’

Alexander Pease - UMass Boston — Wed, 13 Oct 2021 04:01:55 +0000

‘Data and algorithms are frequently biased’ As part of an “Anti-Racism Faculty Hiring Initiative” underway at the University of Michigan, the school has announced it will soon hire three “Professorships in Racial Justice & Technology.” The scholars will battle what the job description calls “the new jim code,” an apparent play on words referencing the Jim Crow racial segregation laws from over…

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Students riot over sexual assault allegations against frat despite no officially lodged complaint

Alexander Pease - UMass Boston — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 05:16:02 +0000

Protests based on vague online anonymous allegations: ‘tried in a public square by a violent mob’ Recent online sexual assault allegations against Theta Chi at the University of Massachusetts Amherst resulted in raucous protests that included flipping a car and injuring a member of the fraternity. But university leaders have said they have not received any formal complaints against Theta Chi…

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From The Atlantic to Morning Joe, liberals are now worried about cancel culture

Alexander Pease - UMass Boston — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 04:04:27 +0000

Could their concerns help push back the social justice mobs? The Atlantic magazine calls cancel culture mobs “The New Puritans” in a feature story from its latest issue, but the article’s author raises the possibility that they might be the new Bolsheviks. “The censoriousness, the shunning, the ritualized apologies, the public sacrifices—these are rather typical behaviors in illiberal…

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