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U.S. Universities To Divest Endowments From Chinese Entities

U.S. Universities To Divest Endowments From Chinese Entities

Joshua Gallagher Hot Trend, U.S.

A bill has been drafted in congress to push universities to divest their endowments from Chinese entities suspected of involvement in human rights violations. As a potential superpower, China has been attempting to extend its global influence with soft and hard power. The country’s attempt to spread its language and culture, as a part of its soft power, in the U.S. through Confucious Institutes has mostly been curtailed since 2018 with the growing anti-China sentiment under the Trump administration. On the other hand, its hard power has surprisingly been more…

Race-conscious College Admissions Policies at Risk

Race-conscious College Admissions Policies at Risk

Lauren Robinson Hot Trend, U.S.

The Supreme Court of the United States will reconsider the role of race in college admissions once again, hearing a case challenging 50-plus years of systematic effort to increase diversity in the nation’s higher education. The legal challenges to remove race-conscious admissions, which came about in compliance with affirmative action in the 1960s, have been posed by numerous parties since 1978. Most recently, such an attempt was made in late January of this year when the court agreed to hear two cases against Harvard University and the University of North…

MBA’s Case Study Method Still Stands Strong

MBA’s Case Study Method Still Stands Strong

Joshua Gallagher Grad Schools, MBA

Although the case study method has received criticism for its shortcomings, numerous business schools still use it as a core part of their teaching for a reason Harvard Business School (HBS) first adopted the case study method in 1921 to allow students to apply theories in practice as they delve into real-world cases. Ever since then, the method has been used as a dominant approach to teaching at a large number of business schools. In recent years, however, some critics have pointed out that the method is outdated, for it…