Dispute over professor who showed student video parodying Hitler film; nearly all-white video highlights diversity at public flagships; and more.
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The flagship university called it “objectively offensive” for a lecturer of accounting to screen an extra-credit parody project. Several students left the class to protest the administration’s decision. (PREMIUM)
A promotional video produced in September by the homecoming committee at the University of Wisconsin at Madison drew ire for not featuring students of color, but this isn’t the first time the flagship has faced a diversity-related snafu. (PREMIUM)
Very few flagships enrolled American Indian, black, and Hispanic students at anywhere near their representation among 17- to 21-year-old residents in the state. (PREMIUM)
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