While discussing the administration’s justification to cut funding to universities on a Fox news segment, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt tossed up some disturbing but not at all surprising word salad. She said that President Trump would prefer funds go towards the trades than “LGBTQ graduate majors” at Harvard. What exactly did she mean […]
They’re turning off the heat before some classes finish: Professor Frances Latchford on York University’s dramatic cuts to liberal arts programs
As York faces a funding crisis, the chair of the department of gender, sexuality and women’s studies talks anti-DEI backlash, Doug Ford’s disdain for “basket-weaving” courses and the enduring value of a liberal arts education
HARD COPY: Endangered knowledges: sexuality studies on the chopping block Check out what faculty and students from women’s, gender, and sexuality studies (and over a dozen other programs including indigenous studies) are facing at Canada’s third-largest university in this interview from Toronto Life with Frances Latchford, the chair of the school of Gender, Sexuality, and […]