Even smart and seemingly attentive observers frequently turn a blind eye to trends that fail to fit the narrative of the moment. This is true in politics, economics and private life; it’s also the case within higher education.
Margaret Heffernan, a business professor and television producer, and the psychologists Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald have described the biases, blind spots and other cognitive traps that lead us to ignore developments that are right in front of our eyes.
Our impaired vision, in their view, is not simply due to distraction or the confusion that comes when we are bombarded by a bewildering and overwhelming stream of information. It is also due to a lack of mindfulness, deep-seated preconceptions and prejudices, and deliberate, purposive efforts to evade unpleasant truths.
Oregon Tech names John Harman of Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center as vice president for Finance and Administration
Oregon Tech names John Harman of Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center as vice president for Finance and Administration All Locations
February 22, 2021
Oregon Institute of Technology (Oregon Tech) conducted a nationwide search and is pleased to welcome John Harman as the new vice president for Finance and Administration (VPFA). Mr. Harman will start at Oregon Tech on March 1, 2021.
Oregon Tech president Dr. Nagi Naganathan said, “In this critical role, Mr. Harman will oversee the university’s financial and information technology resources and capital initiatives, and his experience will be integral in helping to strengthen and align central administrative and financial functions with the university s core mission of teaching, research, and service. John’s expertise and experience will be invaluable as we implement our new
‘The School of Communication is an academic jewel’: The history of TSU’s premier program
Lydia Dillard, Texas Southern University
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As the world continues to grow and display vast technological change, Texas Southern University adapts and prepares its students for the inevitable. The School of Communication has a history of which many people are unaware. In fact, TSU developed the very first public School of Communication in Houston in hopes of bridging the gap of communication and technology in the Black community.
Influential TSU figures, like Dr. Clarice Lowe felt the need to create such a school to help Black students advance in journalism, speech communication, theatre-cinema, communicative disorders, telecommunications and technology.
Football players at Centre College in Kentucky shovel ice and snow off the field.
Record-breaking low temperatures and winter storms across the southern and central United States caused widespread power outages and forced dozens of colleges to close for at least several days.
The storms hit shortly after many colleges began what will likely be another challenging spring term. More and more institutions are transitioning to some in-person instruction amid the pandemic and welcomed more students to campus than they did in the fall. In some cases, the recent bad weather shut down campus COVID-19 testing and vaccination sites and threw a wrench in colleges’ efforts to keep students and employees socially distant.
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Efforts to improve the social success of autistic adolescents and adults have often focused on teaching them ways to think and behave more like their non-autistic peers and to hide the characteristics that define them as autistic. Psychology researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas, however, have been focusing on another approach: promoting understanding and acceptance of autism among non-autistic people.
The researchers published their findings online Jan. 20 in the journal
Autism. The study showed that familiarizing non-autistic people with the challenges and strengths of autistic people helped to reduce stigma and misconceptions about autism, but implicit biases about autism were harder to overcome.