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he/him intern @chronicle | prev. @WiStateJournal @dailycardinal @ghostislandme @WORTnews | [email protected]
Joined January 2022
Some personal news: I started today as a reporting intern for The Chronicle of Higher Education! I’m so excited to return to the most fascinating beat out there and to work with the @chronicle’s incredible team. Got story ideas or DC recommendations? gavin.escott@chronicle.com
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Sad news for Madison public media. Very thankful for the experience and mentorship I gained through WORT and still planning to follow their fantastic news department.
After losing $112,000 in funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Madison community radio station WORT-FM laid off two of its seven full-time staffers this week. Lauren Hafeman via @isthmus
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Texas A&M System Sharply Restricts How Faculty Can Teach About Race and Gender
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A new policy approved Thursday — following a viral video that led to a professor’s firing — prohibits courses from advocating for “race or gender ideology” without prior approval.
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Jim Ryan gives his account of what went down this summer. And it's messy. For @chronicle:
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In an expansive letter, the former University of Virginia president told the story of his resignation, blasting board members and saying the government had pledged to “bleed UVA white.”
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Documents obtained by @gav_escott shed new light on the debacle at Texas A&M, where an English instructor was fired because her course material - specifically her emphasis on LGBTQ themes - purportedly did not align with her course description...
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Breaking from me @chronicle: WashU will continue to engage with the White House on "potentially consequential conversations" for #HigherEd but will not endorse the Trump administration's compact.
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Faculty leaders had worried Martin’s engagement with the Trump administration in recent days could set a dangerous precedent.
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In Declining Compact, Colleges Try to Leverage ‘Merit’ to Turn the Tables on Trump
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“Fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone,” MIT’s president said, using language that has...
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Texas State Employees Union President Ilesa Daniels Ross said Damphousse had an opportunity to uphold the First Amendment but “instead, he chose to send a chilling message to every faculty member and student who dares to speak out or stand up for their rights at Texas State.”
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Texas State upheld the termination of Dr. Thomas Alter after a due process hearing last week. President Kelly Damphousse said in a campus-wide message his decisions “are guided by my commitment to ensuring that the mission of this university endures for generations to come.”
Texas State University fired a tenured professor earlier this month without “an ounce of due process.” After a judge’s ruling on Friday, he’ll have a hearing.
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Kentucky “supported a racially discriminatory event,” the dept said in a letter to the university’s president. The event in question? The PhD Project’s annual conference, which has historically only allowed Black, Latino, and Native American prospective students to attend.
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44 other institutions have been under investigation since March for their partnership with the PhD Project, which the department alleges discriminates against students on the basis of race, color and national origin.
The Department of Education determined the University of Kentucky violated the Civil Rights Act over its affiliation with a nonprofit that aimed to increase the racial diversity of business-school faculty. The university said it would “comply with the law and policy direction”
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Texas State University fired a tenured professor earlier this month without “an ounce of due process.” After a judge’s ruling on Friday, he’ll have a hearing.
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The university — claiming that he was “inciting violence” — acted this month after Thomas Alter talked hypothetically at a conference on socialism about overthrowing the government.
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The former professor, whose tenure took effect 10 days before he was fired, spoke with me about why he’s filing a lawsuit against the university. In his telling, he was fired “without an ounce of due process.” https://t.co/fYA1FU3b2I
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Colleagues describe a climate of fear.
A Texas State professor was fired three days after making "controversial remarks," at a conference. What the university president didn't mention when announcing his termination: the professor was tenured, two people with knowledge of his situation said.
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BREAKING: Texas A&M President Mark A. Welsh III will step down effective at 5 p.m. on Friday following backlash from a viral classroom video depicting a confrontation between a professor and student over gender discussions. https://t.co/Yn6UHHrHl9
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Texas A&M President Mark A. Welsh III will step down from his position as university president effective 5 p.m. on Friday, according to an email from the A&M System. “President Welsh is a man of...
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Some Republican lawmakers have threatened to pull funding or enact other consequences if the colleges don't fire employees who criticized Charlie Kirk after his death. Here's a list of where people been fired, suspended, expelled, or disciplined so far.
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Republican politicians have been pressuring institutions to take action against those who criticized the conservative activist after he was shot and killed last week.
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Update: the two faculty were dismissed, Clemson said Tuesday morning.
Clemson fired an employee and suspended two faculty after posts they made making light of Charlie Kirk's death drew fierce Republican backlash, including threats to defund the university. By @clairemurphy22, Ellie Davis and me: https://t.co/I7OyWvPuN1
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The university said the decision to fire the staff member came after a “immediate and deliberate investigation into inappropriate social media content.” The employees posts, many of which have been deleted, went viral after the campus College Republicans posted screenshots Friday
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Clemson fired an employee and suspended two faculty after posts they made making light of Charlie Kirk's death drew fierce Republican backlash, including threats to defund the university. By @clairemurphy22, Ellie Davis and me: https://t.co/I7OyWvPuN1
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Republican lawmakers in South Carolina threatened to pull the university’s funding over the weekend. The pressure campaign caught widespread attention, including from President Trump.
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A timeline palate cleanser (sort of): I wrote about a student election that went totally sideways. There were hearings! In front of student judges! Over Instagram posts! https://t.co/jkk69zGDyC
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Is what happened at Ohio State University a cautionary tale about cutthroat ambition — or frightened administrators?
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While there have been many examples in the past dozen years of social-media campaigns calling for professors to be disciplined or even fired over their speech, Texas State’s near-instant decision to dismiss a tenured professor is rare, said legal experts
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The professor was accused of advocating for "inciting violence" at a socialist conference over the weekend. He is the second professor in Texas to be fired this week after videos of his remarks went viral.
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