UD is... "Salty." (Scott McLemee) "Unvarnished." (Phi Beta Cons) "Splendidly splenetic." (Culture Industry) "Except for University Diaries, most academic blogs are tedious." (Rate Your Students) "I think of Soltan as the Maureen Dowd of the blogosphere, except that Maureen Dowd is kind of a wrecking ball of a writer, and Soltan isn't. For the life of me, I can't figure out her politics, but she's pretty fabulous, so who gives a damn?" (Tenured Radical) |
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Diversity Plan De-Orwellianized The University of Oregon has now seen reason and dropped the inane and pernicious phrase “cultural competency” from its latest diversity plan draft. And it’s given departments and programs much more freedom in thinking about how to broaden their faculties. Good. |