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How University Core Curriculums Are Getting Political

Politics and other factors are causing universities to reconsider what classes are part of the core required for graduation. In some places, civics and classics are replacing climate change and sociology.

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Texas A&M system regents recently decertified 350 course entries as core compliant, including ones about Black people in the United States, Texas literature, crime and gender studies.
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Should Professors Teach More? Some Colleges Are Trying to Make Them.

Schools and entire states are creating new rules forcing professors to teach more hours and show up at the office. At one university, professors quit in response.

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Texas A&M University’s branch in Victoria, Texas, started requiring professors to work on campus five days a week. Some resigned.
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