Mike Gavin
Delta College President, Founder of Education for All, author of The New White Nationalism in Politics and Higher Education; Cubs fan.
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On 9/11: Sports in the Aftermath of Tragedy (opens the original)
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Against the backdrop of a clear blue sky, United Airlines flight 175 and American Airlines flight 11 plunged into the World Trade Center. In Washington, D.C., United Airlines flight 77 dove into the Pentagon wall. And en route to the White House, United Airlines flight 93 was downed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where a gaping hole served as the temporary grave for those on that plane. Across the nation-state, anxious citizens, themselves targets and victims of the terror, read and watched news
As the anniversary of Charlie Kirk’s assassination approaches, there is a way for leaders to engage (opens the original)
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Part of a Longer Article in Change Magazine (link here)The Narratives about Charlie Kirk’s Assassination are an Example for Higher Education to Learn FromA single gunshot pierced through the sun-stroked academic quad at Utah State University. Within moments, the crowd knew that the founder of Turning Point USA, Charlie Kirk, had been assassinated.Kirk’s assassination was many academic leaders’ nightmare.Collectively, campus leaders lose sleep over the possibility of active shooters on c
The Trump Administration’s Strategy to Insert Politics into Learning (opens the original)
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This spring, the Department of Education and the Accreditation, Innovation, and Modernization (AIM) Committee held negotiated rulemaking meetings and reached consensus on proposed regulatory changes. These new proposed rules are an unprecedented intrusion by the federal government into the autonomy of higher education institutions and will allow the government, regardless of the administration, to interfere with the academic freedom of our nation’s faculty, students, and college leaders.See <a h
The Alliance and PEN America team on Compact 2.0 Guidance for Colleges and universities (opens the original)
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The Department of Education claims that its demands in the recent letter from Secretary McMahon are voluntary, yet there’s a long list of potential consequences that colleges and universities can expect if they don’t comply: from increased scrutiny from the current administration to potentially being locked out of funding conversations.This letter is a softened version of the administration's Compact from last fall. Now they are making a strategic shift in the language they use to try and compel
Sports is next for Authoritarians (opens the original)
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President Trump’s influence in sports and sporting events is anything but apolitical. As he and FIFA president Gianni Infantino laughed in a spectator suite during the World Cup final yesterday, the two men’s relationship reminded us all of how Florian Balogun’s red card suspension was when Trump became the first time an American president intervened to potentially change the outcome of athletic event.Sports is Next for AuthoritariansPresident Trump’s influence in sports and sporting events is a
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