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Working in edu-policy & strategy at EducationCounsel. Former civil rights lawyer & DC Public Schools teacher/district official. Views my own. He/Him
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The full paper explains each of the legal parameters and provides concrete examples for each of the three parts of the framework. This is a time for leaders to embrace wise courage to meet a new reality.
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Framework for Wise Courage:
PART I: Ground Risk Assessment in Mission, Law, and Context
PART II: Communicate Proactively to Increase Understanding
PART III: Take Strongly Defensible, Mission-Advancing Actions
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5. But diversity interests are legally insufficient to justify conferring or withholding benefits for students on the basis of their racial status.
6. Civil rights enforcement must not violate other aspects of federal law.
7. Civil rights enforcement must follow established procedures.
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Legal Parameters:
1. “DEIA” is not inherently unlawful.
2. A diversity-dependent mission is “worthy,” not outlawed.
3. Considering lived experience or subject matter based on race is still permissible in higher education.
4. IHEs can remove barriers and consider neutral criteria.
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To help leaders take action, "Wise Courage" summarizes existing legal parameters & provides a framework for advancing effective, legally defensible access & opportunities for all students & faculty. 5/
Paper: educationcounsel.com/our_work/pub...
Exec Summary: www.nelsonmullins.com/storage/UoJ9...
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Navigating this presents unprecedented challenges to IHEs & their leaders. It requires wisdom to separate the (legal) signal from the (policy preference) noise. And it requires courage to remain committed to an institution’s mission & values amid the risks associated with such federal overreach. 4/
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The Admin branded it all as “illegal DEIA” & is now trying to bar pursuit of these values as if they were outlawed when they are not. These actions threaten academic freedom, a bedrock 1A principle that undergirds higher ed's ability to fulfill its purpose in our democracy, economy & society. 3/
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The Trump Administration has initiated a period of federal overreach against efforts by institutions of higher education (IHEs) to advance core values related to building inclusive and accessible environments, advancing equitable opportunity, and promoting the benefits of diversity. 2/
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And yet 👇
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I think an honorary doctorate would do the trick
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Don't get me started on the INefficiency of firing the handful of staff at IES who managed restricted access data licenses and did disclosure review.
tl;dr: This made data that taxpayers already paid for, and that many of us were analyzing for free (from gvt's perspective), essentially unusable.
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I think it just beats out Americans and Southerners tbh
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Now do “parents”
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Several passages seem directly lifted from Trump’s anti-Harvard comments too. Also not uncommon in 9th grade essays…
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I'll let him speak for himself:
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And that's exactly what's going on here:
www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
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never fails...everything is an edu-issue
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Senator Young and his co-author, Matt Pottinger, are right, and this holds not just for NSF and defense-related research, but equally for NIH and health research, and the Institute of Education Sciences and education research.