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SUNY College at Oneonta professor Ibram H. Rogers discusses and proposes ideas and programs to further diversify higher education and make it more relevant to all of its students.

 

Selling Out the Truth to Thwart Affirmative Action

by Dr. Ibram Rogers, January 27, 2012

I admire the glorious intellectual endeavor to discover and reveal the ever-changing, ever-remaining, ever-complicated, ever-simple fountain of truth—the sociological truth, the economic truth, the biological truth, the historical truth (to name a few). But too often, too many academics sell out the truth.  They sell the truth for causes, for careers,

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Transgender Identity and Higher Education Discrimination

by Dr. Ibram Rogers, November 3, 2011

This summer, Domaine Javier received an abruptly disheartening expulsion notice from California Baptist University (CBU).  The private “Christian” university in Riverside informed the transgender 24-year-old woman from the Philippines that she was expelled for “committing or attempting to engage in fraud, or concealing identity” in university judicial processes, according to

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Pell Grants as Costly and ‘Harmful’ Welfare?

by Dr. Ibram Rogers, April 6, 2011

As American politicians and educators continue to slice and dice away at higher education resources and programs using the hollow, yet sharp knives of austerity, the future of a diverse academy increasingly looks bleak and dreary. The widely used justification — the need to cut costs and reduce the national deficit

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The Future of Higher Education: Non-Profit or For-Profit?

by Dr. Ibram Rogers, February 17, 2011

As American higher education continues its jog from public to private, a fierce battled has gripped Washington that could accelerate or slow the pace. Last year, the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) issued a blistering report that found many for-profit institutions have misled students during the recruiting process, encouraged students to

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Homeless College Students: A Budding Crisis

by Dr. Ibram Rogers, January 6, 2011

Homeless college students.  When I first read that phrase, it sounded like an oxymoron. I had to read it three times before it settled into my consciousness. But as soon as it had settled, its implications began to grow on me and cause serious alarm. Before World War II, higher education in

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