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Noliwe Rooks
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Chair and Professor, Brown University, Africana Studies. Author of Integrated: How Schools in America Failed Black Children, available 3/18/25 and A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit: The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune.
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I mean, Sanders is a socialist so that makes some sense on his part. But these megacapitalists thinking it’s a great idea is sort of a head scratcher to me.
August 23, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Love it. Hope the dem political machine is of a mind to listen.
August 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Concluding paragraph:
n fiscal year 2024, the University of Chicago had revenues of $3.027 billion. Why not teach undergraduates according to its historic standards? Why decimate the humanities? Why "pause" doctoral education in fields that do not concern North America? Why disdain everything not written in English or which occurred before the modern world? Not because they need to; not because they are forced to. These are simply the expressed preferences of the University of Chicago's leaders and trustees. Its rank is declining; its endowment is shrinking; its investments in programs and start-ups are questionable. They are succeeding only in destroying a great American university.
August 16, 2025 at 11:34 AM