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The Higher Ed Swamp Is Being Drained—But It’s Nowhere Near Empty

Author’s Note: This excerpt is from my weekly “Top of Mind” email, sent to subscribers every Thursday. For more content like this and to receive the full newsletter each week, sign up directly by entering your name and email under “SIGN UP FOR OUR WEEKLY NEWSLETTER, ‘TOP OF MIND,’” located on the right-hand side of the […]

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To Live an Intellectual Life, I Had to Leave the Ivory Tower

In the lengthening shadows of late summer 2024, as yet another academic year loomed on the horizon, an inescapable realization struck me: The moment had arrived to bid farewell to the groves of academe. The decision to leave behind my university career after nearly a decade in administration and considerably longer in teaching emerged not […]

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New Treasure of Sierra Madre—Minority Serving Institutions Are a Modern Illusion of Equity

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is a classic 1948 Western directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart as Fred Dobbs, one of three desperate men hoping to strike it rich digging for gold in the mountains of Western Mexico. They indeed find gold but at high price. Murder, madness, and banditry ensue. Ultimately […]

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Despite DEI Bans, Texas Keeps Funding DEI Activist Pipelines

Editor’s Note: This article originally stated that the NSF-funded math postdoc was at Texas Southern University. It has been corrected to reflect that the position is at Texas State University. Despite having one of the most stringent anti-DEI legislations in the country, Texas universities still host an array of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) programs […]

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