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UVA professors object to a senior fellowship for a high-ranking Trump surrogate who has defended the president's comments on the white supremacist violence in Charlottesville.

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UVA professors object to a senior fellowship for high-ranking Trump surrogate
July 20, 2018
UVA professors object to a senior fellowship for a high-ranking Trump surrogate who has defended the president's comments on the white supremacist violence in Charlottesville.
Talk show host says Sacha Baron Cohen posed as Reed professor for new show on American politics
July 16, 2018
Conservative talk show host says Sacha Baron Cohen posed as Reed professor for comedy show on politics. Reed says ploy demonstrates a misunderstanding of what it's about, but that it's honored -- sort of. Maybe.
College says professor is on leave after telling Asian-American family 'go back to your home country'
March 7, 2018
Golden West College says a professor is on leave after she was recorded off-campus telling an Asian-American family to "go back to your home country."
Political scientists see the discipline's historical division across four subareas as hindering their ability to understand Trump's America
October 10, 2017
Political scientists see the discipline’s historical division across four subareas as hindering their collective ability to understand Trump’s America -- and its future.
Campus group proposing broad countermovement against white nationalism and racism
August 17, 2017
Campuses are targets of the alt-right. A new group is proposing a broad, campus-based countermovement.
Sociologists talk about teaching in the political now, with an emphasis on Charlottesville
August 15, 2017
Sociologists talk about teaching in the political now, with an emphasis on critical media literacy, ground rules for a discussion and an understanding that students see sociology classrooms as somewhere to try to make sense of current events.
Historian alleges coordinated criticism of her latest book, which is critical of radical right
July 12, 2017
Historian alleges coordinated criticism of her latest book, which is critical of radical right, from many who have received Koch funding.
First-year writing classes can teach students how to make fact-based arguments (essay)
May 8, 2017
Such a class can provide a model for constructive, fact-based public discourse and stand as a model of principled resistance in a “fake news” era, argues John Duffy.
Nontenured faculty should not be assessed by student evaluations in this politically charged era (essay)
April 24, 2017
One way of countering a campus culture in which everyone is afraid to speak is to stop relying on student evaluations to assess nontenured faculty, argues Robert Samuels.
Reflections on Teresa Sullivan and Hillary Clinton's shared leadership style
March 6, 2017
University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan and U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton have a similar leadership style, writes Charlie Tyson, and public reaction to it says a good deal about how our society pigeonholes women with power.

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