Updated: 12:12 PM MDT May 24, 2021
BOISE, Idaho After nearly two months of investigating, an external firm has found no evidence of attempts to indoctrinate Boise State University students after one student allegedly felt “humiliated and degraded” in an ethics and diversity course at the university.
In mid-March, the university suspended its University Foundations 200 course for a week after one person, who isn t a student at the university, reported having viewed a video from a friend’s phone in which a Caucasian student was singled out by an instructor in a BSU class and was mistreated and demeaned.
Dr. Tromp said Hawley Troxell s external investigation, reached out to thousands of students and included dozens of direct in-depth interviews and a review of hundreds of documents.
Idaho s Blueprint for Red State Higher Education Reform | Opinion Scott Yenor and Anna K. Miller On 5/7/21 at 6:00 AM EDT
Disruption of higher education is not inevitable. The higher education industry has weathered online education, for-profit schools and the COVID-19 crisis. Perhaps many mid-level liberal arts schools will close down in the next decade, but generous public subsidies may well keep more than a few alive through these troubling times.
Advocates of higher education reform cannot sing lullabies about the unsustainable trajectory of higher education. Concrete action is needed, and red states can lead the way.
Events in Idaho during the past two years should interest all Americans. Idaho is among the reddest of states, with Republican supermajorities in both legislative bodies and a Republican governor. All members of the state board of education, which oversees higher education, are Republican appointees. Yet Republican state board members are par
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The Legislature’s Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee breezed through one big education budget Tuesday morning, then wrangled over another. First, lawmakers approved a $1.1 billion teacher salaries bill that was actually larger than the budget House members voted down two weeks ago. The new budget puts an additional $1 million into teacher training, while fully funding a […]
Apr 27, 2021
Dr. David T. Lewis, 85, of Holiday Island, Arkansas, passed away April 21, 2021. He was born September 27, 1935, in Downing, Missouri, the son of Harry R. Lewis and Emma Bohi Lewis. He grew up in Rutland, Iowa, where he enjoyed hunting and fishing with his brother, playing along the river with his sisters, reading the Bible and poetry with his parents, and where he worked to farm the DeGroote farm. David served in the Marine Corps during the Korean War. He was a life-long learner and teacher who used his art of storytelling, quick wit, and writing to connect with others and share his knowledge and gifts. He was a wonderful loving husband and father who will be deeply missed.