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Plantation Politics and Campus Rebellions provides a multidisciplinary exploration of the contemporary university's entanglement with the history of slavery and settler colonialism in the United States. Inspired by more than a hundred student-led protests during the Movement for Black Lives, contributors examine how campus rebellions - and university responses to them - expose the racialized inequities at the core of higher education.

Expert guidance for navigating the difficult new issues around free speech rights in higher education In their earlier book, Free Speech on Campus, Erwin Chemerinsky and Howard Gillman argued that colleges and universities should permit the expression of the widest possible range of views. Nearly ten tumultuous years later, many issues have arisen that this simple principle does not adequately address. To what extent must an institution provide expensive security for extremely controversial speakers?

Free speech is indispensable on college campuses: allowing varied views and frank exchanges of opinion is a core component of the educational enterprise. But free speech does not mean a free-for-all. The First Amendment prohibits "abridging the freedom of speech," yet laws against perjury or bribery, for example, are still constitutional. In the same way, valuing freedom of speech does not stop a university from regulating speech when doing so is necessary for its educational mission. So where is the dividing line? How can we distinguish reasonable restrictions from impermissible infringement?

Shabana Mir's powerful ethnographic study of women on Washington, D.C., college campuses reveals that being a young female Muslim in post-9/11 America means experiencing double scrutiny—scrutiny from the Muslim community as well as from the dominant non-Muslim community. i>Muslim American Women on Campus illuminates the processes by which a group of ethnically diverse American college women, all identifying as Muslim and all raised in the United States, construct their identities during one of the most formative times in their lives.

No Campus for White Men shines a bright light on the growing obsession with diversity, victimization, and identity politics on today's college campuses, and shows how it is creating an intensely hostile and fearful atmosphere that can only lead, ultimately, to ever greater polarization in American society.

Can free speech coexist with an inclusive campus environment? Hardly a week goes by without another controversy over free speech on college campuses. On one side, there are increased demands to censor hateful, disrespectful, and bullying expression and to ensure an inclusive and nondiscriminatory learning environment. On the other side are traditional free speech advocates who charge that recent demands for censorship coddle students and threaten free inquiry.

A timely guide to help you reclaim authenticity, better understand your mind, and navigate a polarized world. "Nerenberg offers ways to speak up, stand alone, and be true to ourselves. . . . Nerenberg’s timely and thought-provoking analysis is sure to spark discussion." – Booklist Trust Your...

The Conflict over the Conflict chronicles one of the most divisive and toxic issues on today’s college and university campuses: Israel/Palestine.

The fear of campus sexual assault has become an inextricable part of the college experience. But why is sexual assault such a common feature of college life? And what can be done to prevent it? Drawing on the Sexual Health Initiative to Foster Transformation (SHIFT) at Columbia University, the most comprehensive study of sexual assault on a campus to date, Jennifer S. Hirsch and Shamus Khan present an entirely new framework that emphasizes sexual assault’s social roots

"ISIS Calls Attacker on Ohio State Campus a ‘Soldier’" is from the November 29, 2016 US section of The New York Times. It was written by Mitch Smith, Rukmini Callimachi and Richard Pérez Peña and narrated by Kristi Burns.

"Raped at Off-Campus Frat Houses, Students Say, and Ignored by College" is from the April 20, 2016 US section of The New York Times. It was written by Stephanie Saul and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

The Campus Exchange podcast provides a venue for AEI Executive Council students to interview scholars about the pressing policy issues facing our country and world. To learn more about our work on college campuses, visit www.aei.org/academic-programs

Tous les 3èmes mercredis du mois, de 19 h à 20 h sur Radio Campus Angers, avec l'équipe des Dessous de la Cité, on s'occupera d'analyser et vulgariser l'actu politique locale pour vous. Ici, on ne se prend pas la tête, on explique les choses clairement, sans filtre, pour vous tenir au plus proche de l'info !

"New Feature of the College Tour: First-Class Campus Hotels" is from the November 21, 2016 Business section of The New York Times. It was written by Tammy La Gorce and narrated by Kristi Burns.

Des voix d'ici et d'ailleurs, pour penser le monde en communUn podcast pour comprendre le monde en mutation, se mettre en mouvement et tracer ensemble de nouveaux horizons.A chaque épisode, un nouvel entretien. Celui d’une personnalité d’ici ou d’ailleurs, inspirante, riche d’une pensée complexe et d’un engagement chevillé au corps. Une voix qui capte l’oreille, interroge nos compréhensions du monde et réveille notre envie de vivre autrement.Des Nouvelles de Demain, c’est une série multiculturelle orchestrée par le Campus groupe AFD, en partenariat avec les Ateliers de la...