Statement of the North Carolina Conference of the AAUP on UNC System Curricular Interference

BY THE NORTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE OF THE AAUP On February 5, the University of North Carolina System issued a memorandum to UNC chancellors announcing that “all general education requirements and major-specific requirements mandating completion of course credits related to diversity, equity, and inclusion, or any other topic identified in Section VII of the [UNC System]…

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Anti-DEI DEI

BY MARK S. JAMES Last August, my colleague wrote about how our university’s leadership has embraced a top-down corporate model as the way of running the university, and he proceeded to describe various instances when they have ignored shared governance and threatened academic freedom. This trend has continued unabated. The most recent example of this…

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map of Florida with red pushpin stuck into the center of the state

Florida: Where Time is Out of Joint

By CHRISTOPHER ROBÉ AND DAWN L. ROTHE “It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.” Alice in Wonderland It is difficult for many of us in Florida to fully grasp how we have ended up as ground zero for the culture wars over gender, sexuality, Black history, and so much else. Back in…

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