Nearly 150 universities and colleges have adopted institutional neutrality pledges since 2023.
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The right commencement speaker can create a memorable experience, generate favorable media coverage for the school and inspire donors. So why do colleges miss the mark on this once-a-year decision?
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, conservative activists led a counterattack against campus antiwar and civil rights demonstrators by demanding action from college presidents, the courts and the police.
Despite what’s happening on the most prestigious campuses, fewer than a third of presidents at American colleges and universities are women.
College presidents worked both at the forefront and behind the scenes in fighting for African Americans’ civil rights in the 1960s.
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Associate Professor of Higher Education and History, University of California, Los Angeles
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William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College