The university system commissioned a Gallup survey after a liberal graduate student berated a conservative undergrad. Among other things, Gallup found that some students — and faculty members — were anxious about speaking their minds.
A new report on the Urbana-Champaign campus’s controversial Chief Illiniwek mascot, which was retired in 2007, acknowledges more than regret that “we are not further along in the process.”
A required, interdisciplinary introduction to social science at the University of Dayton gets instructors from different departments talking, in meetings and more informally.
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How do you feel about impact as a verb? How about reveal as a noun? Rose Jacobs is studying how age correlates with feelings about language change. You can become part of her data here.
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