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A Tennessee university professor recently made the case that undergraduate mathematics education is discriminatory against queer and transgender students of color. Luis Leyva, assistant professor of mathematics education at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, described it as a "white, cisheteropatriarchal space" during a lecture at the Joint Mathematics Meetings 2023, the "largest mathematics gathering in the world," in Boston on Jan. 4. The lecture, delivered by Leyva in two parts, was titled "Undergraduate Mathematics Education as a White, Cisheteropatriarchal Space and Opportunities for Structural Disruption to Advance Queer of Color Justice."
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Harvard students stage walkout in front of professor accused of sexual harassment
Over 100 students marched out of a Harvard classroom on Tuesday to protest the first lecture of professor John L. Comaroff this year. Comaroff, who teaches African and African American Studies at Harvard University, was found to have violated the school’s sexual harassment and professional conduct policies after two internal investigations last year. In February 2022, three anthropology graduate students — Margaret G. Czerwienski, Lilia M. Kilburn and Amulya Mandava — sued the school for allegedly ignoring complaints filed by victims against Comaroff over the years.
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I'm a Florida teacher who's been forced to cover up the books in my classroom. Here's why I'm suing Ron DeSantis.
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Everytown launches campaign demanding colleges, universities divest from gun industry
Students Demand Action, a grassroots network of Everytown for Gun Safety, is launching a campaign calling on colleges and universities across the country to divest from the gun industry. Students at nearly 30 colleges and universities around the country have joined the campaign, called #KillerBusiness, and are asking their colleges and universities to cut economic ties with the gun industry until these companies take accountability for their actions. Students will be organizing on their campuses to put pressure on their institutions to reveal their investments and stop funding the gun industry, according to Everytown.
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'You want to ban the books? I’m giving them away.' Activists protest Florida book-ban law
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You can hate Arizona Sen. John Kavanagh, but he's right about schools and pronouns
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Student groups show support for Minnesota college president
Representatives of several student groups at a Minnesota college that dismissed an adjunct art instructor for showing an image of the Prophet Muhammad to her class say they do not want the school's embattled president to resign. In a letter published Wednesday in The Oracle, the student news site at Hamline University in St. Paul, the students said they strongly support President Fayneese Miller. On Tuesday, Hamline's faculty leaders called overwhelmingly for Miller to resign, saying Miller's dismissal of the instructor violated violated academic freedom and harmed the university’s reputation.
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Woman, 29, arrested after posing as New Jersey high school student for four days
A 29-year-old woman was arrested last week after she spent four days fraudulently enrolled in a New Jersey high school as a student, school district officials said.
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California State University worried about ‘unprecedented’ enrollment declines
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Op-Ed: Higher education as a path out of poverty is now more myth than reality
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Utah governor OKs bill banning gender-affirming health care
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After Years of Debate, Iowa Passes Statewide Education Savings Account Program
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