Education
HBCUs Under Pressure: Navigating Political Threats. By Ronald J. Sheehy / Race Inquiry Digest Weekend Edition (Graves Hall Morehouse College)
First Black Law School Dean At LSU Steps Down, Claims She Is Being Discriminated Against. By Nahlah Abdur-Rahman / Black Enterprise
Racist Lies About College “Quotas” Stoke Support for Trump’s War on Higher Ed. By Bedelia Nicola Richards / Truthout
Why an ‘America First’ Approach to Teaching Won’t Work. By Glenn Sacks / The Progressive Magazine
The inspiration for New Orleans’ St. Mary’s Academy. By Bill Croxton / CBS News
The Coming Collapse of Faculty Diversity. By Frank Dobbin and Alexandra Kalev / The Chronicle of Higher Ed.
Higher Ed Joins March on Wall Street to Defend DEI Programs. By Jamal Watson / Diverse Issues In Higher Ed.
Pentagon Is Reinstalling Portrait of Confederate General at West Point Library. By Greg Jaffe / NYT
College-Age Jews Are Heading South. By Rose Horowitch / The Atlantic
The Leader of Trump’s Assault on Higher Education Has a Troubled Legal and Financial History. By Peter Elkind and Katherine Mangan / ProPublica
Some Programs for Black Students Become ‘Illegal D.E.I.’ Under Trump. By Dana Goldstein / NYT
Justice department backs lawsuit seeking to end grants for hispanic-serving colleges, calling them unconstitutional. By CBS News
Howard President Resigns Amid Housing Crisis and Student Outrage. by Alecia Taylor / Capital B
Education Dept. Finds Faculty-Diversity Efforts at George Mason U. Were Discriminatory. By Jasper Smith / The Chronicle of Higher Ed.
Under Trump, the Education Dept. has flipped its civil rights mission. By Laura Meckler / Wash Post
DEI closures at colleges leave students with ‘a different reality.’ By Lexi Lonas Cochran / The Hill
Are Black Women Still The ‘Most Educated’ Group In America? By Shannon Dawson / Newsone
The Troubling Lines That Columbia Is Drawing. By Eyal Press / The New Yorker
Columbia Will Make Direct Payments to Jewish Employees. Not All of Them Are Happy About It. By Sonel Cutler / Chronicle of Higher Ed.
Judge Halts White House Effort to Defund Schools With D.E.I. Programs. By Dana Goldstein / NYT
Oklahoma to begin controversial test to weed out ‘woke’ teacher applicants today. By Sunlen Serfaty / CNN
Trump killed affirmative action. His base might not like what comes next. By Noel King and Gabrielle Berbey / Vox
Trump’s Assault on Universities Isn’t Just About Education. By Perry Bacon / TNR
At Colleges, Diversity Training Is Out. Dialogue Workshops Are In. By Aisha Baiocchi / The Chronicle of Higher Ed
West Point and Air Force Academy Affirmative Action Lawsuits Are Dropped. By Vimal Patel / NYT
Trump Is Desperately Trying To Make Colleges White Again. By Nathalie Baptiste / HuffPost
Trump Escalates a Fight Over How to Measure Merit in American Education. By Stephanie Saul, Dana Goldstein and Sarah Mervosh / NYT
The Only Hope Is Total and Unrelenting Resistance. By Arne Duncan / The Chronicle of Higher Ed.
This ‘Chilling’ Right-Wing Movement Is Taking Over Classrooms — And It’s Only The Beginning. By Molly Wadzeck / HuffPost
Black-Led, Progressive Homeschool Networks Rise Amid Book Bans, Attacks on DEI. By Ella Fassier / Truthout
