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Provost & university’s chief general counsel out at ECU​

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Published: Oct. 24, 2024 at 2:03 PM EDT|Updated: 17 hours ago

GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN) - East Carolina University is looking for more than a new head football coach after this morning.

The university’s provost along with its chief legal counsel are no longer with the institution.

In a letter to faculty and staff this morning, Chancellor Dr. Philip Rogers announced leadership changes in two major areas of the university.

Dr. Robin Coger is being replaced by Dr. Chris Buddo, who will be interim provost and senior vice chancellor for the Division of Academic Affairs. This as Megan Kiser has been appointed interim general counsel and vice chancellor for legal affairs, replacing Paul Zigas. More at the link.

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Provost & university’s chief general counsel out at ECU

ECU's provost along with its chief legal counsel are no longer with the institution.
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donbosco said:
Crazy part is that the Foundations of American Democracy course mandate coming into play next Fall -- BOG ordered that every student that graduates from a UNC System School must take a course that has a focus on The Declaration, the Constitution/Bill of Rights, Five of the Federalist Papers, the Emancipation Proclamation, and The "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" -- they're letting go some folks that have some of the deepest understanding of the Foundations of American Democracy, i.e, Classicists and Philosophers.
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Sari Beth Rosenberg



It’s especially difficult to be a U.S. History teacher in America right now. We might be close to watching the architects of Project 2025 via Trump dismantle the American republic as we know it. Meanwhile we are teaching how American democracy developed. For a long time it was the story of 1/



progress with a fair share of backlash. I’d argue that we didn’t resemble much of a democracy until the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Our democracy has been a work in progress. The goal for many Americans has been for us to become a true 2/



multiracial democracy. But now I am not sure where we are headed. I always let my students draw their own conclusions while studying the history & sources in my class. If we just look at the Trump cabinet right now, I fear that they will work very hard to take a wrecking ball to so much of the 3/



progress we’ve made. I think too many Americans don’t realize what we are about to potentially lose starting in 2025. As a student and teacher of history I know that we’ve had other threats to our progress as a nation. 4/



But as I teach what other Americans have sacrificed & built to get us where we are today, it will be especially be tough to watch it get dismantled. 5/



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Sari Beth Rosenberg

It’s especially difficult to be a U.S. History teacher in America right now. We might be close to watching the architects of Project 2025 via Trump dismantle the American republic as we know it. Meanwhile we are teaching how American democracy developed. For a long time it was the story of 1/

progress with a fair share of backlash. I’d argue that we didn’t resemble much of a democracy until the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Our democracy has been a work in progress. The goal for many Americans has been for us to become a true 2/

multiracial democracy. But now I am not sure where we are headed. I always let my students draw their own conclusions while studying the history & sources in my class. If we just look at the Trump cabinet right now, I fear that they will work very hard to take a wrecking ball to so much of the 3/

progress we’ve made. I think too many Americans don’t realize what we are about to potentially lose starting in 2025. As a student and teacher of history I know that we’ve had other threats to our progress as a nation. 4/

But as I teach what other Americans have sacrificed & built to get us where we are today, it will be especially be tough to watch it get dismantled. 5/

@sari.bsky.social
 
In the NCGA this happened on January 30.



I can see only one reason to reintroduce this into the General Assembly and that is to make sure that the provisions from line 20 in the bill on down are explicitely realized on the campuses of the UNC System.

I also note that the Emancipation Proclamation (and mention of the Bill of Rights), which has appeared in previous iterations of this mandate are absent from this bill but also that the NC Constitution is one of the documents (which begs the question, which one? 1776, 1868, or 1971 -- And there were major revisions made in 1835 as well).
 
I pity the poor kids required to read some of those docs. It would be much better finding a less politicized text that can talk about the important parts and the impact it has had on society. Good luck with the non-politicized text getting approved by the GA.
 
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In that same vein: HPAD stands for Historians for Peace and Democracy. The "Repudiation" mentioned in the first sentence is linked just below this document. It is followed by a link to the trump administration's executive order of January 29 titled "Executive Order Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling."
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Dear HPAD members,
Here is AHA Executive Director Jim Grossman's emphatic repudiation of Trump's attack on educators. And below is our Steering Committee's own unequivocal response, which we urge you to circulate as widely as possible:
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“Who controls the present controls the past,” wrote George Orwell in 1949. Authoritarian regimes have long tried to rewrite history to advance their political objectives. The Trump administration’s executive order of January 29, 2025, titled “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling,” follows in this tradition.
The document accuses educators of “imprinting anti-American, subversive, harmful, and false ideologies on our Nation’s children.” One of its targets is “gender ideology extremism,” or the acknowledgment that transgender people exist. Another is “discriminatory equity ideology,” meaning a concern for values like equity and diversity. These “false ideologies” are allegedly accompanied by an “anti-American” telling of US history. In its place, the order directs public schools, on pain of defunding, to practice “patriotic education.” A patriotic history curriculum involves the following:
(i) an accurate, honest, unifying, inspiring, and ennobling characterization of America’s founding and foundational principles;
(ii) a clear examination of how the United States has admirably grown closer to its noble principles throughout its history;
(iii) the concept that commitment to America’s aspirations is beneficial and justified; and
(iv) the concept that celebration of America’s greatness and history is proper.
There is an obvious incongruity in accusing educators of indoctrination while mandating that they inculcate students with a fairy-tale version of US history. A curriculum cannot be “honest” if it is ideologically dedicated to “celebration of America’s greatness” and to conveying the “noble” and “inspiring” character of US rulers. Indoctrination as used in the document seems to mean not the dictionary definition of the term, but any critical inquiry that does not adhere to “patriotic” predispositions. In this and other respects, the authors’ argumentation is of very low caliber.
We do, however, take this executive order seriously. As historians we know how labels like “subversive” and “anti-American” have been used to justify firing, imprisonment, deportation, torture, and murder by the US government and its allies around the world. In recent years the US education system has been dragged further in that direction. State and local governments have banned thousands of books, fired educators, and scared many others into self-censorship. This edict is the latest assault on critical thought, at a time when confronting our world’s multiple emergencies demands more of it, not less.
As historians we also know that, to the extent this country indeed reflects “noble principles,” it is thanks to the very groups now being targeted by the Trump administration: working people of all colors and national origins who have fought for freedom and dignity, critically-minded educators and students, women and LGBTQ activists, and the Indigenous peoples whose expulsion and murder is glorified in “patriotic” history books. In these same groups lies our hope for the future.
The Orwellian madness of our moment can only be countered through collective action and solidarity. We stand ready to support educators, labor unions, community organizations, and others who resist the descent into barbarism.
In solidarity,
Margaret Power and Van Gosse, H-PAD Co-Chairs


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From the AHA: On the K–12 Education Executive Order - AHA

From trump: https://archive.md/885nt
 
Today Berger introduced a bill to allow concealed weapons without a permit
What could go wrong ?
 
I thought it was going to say we changed our name to University of White People in NC
 
fourheels said:
I suspect many here know this but his older brother was Archibald "Moonlight" Graham portrayed by Burt Lancaster in "Field of Dreams"
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Also, that Alexander Graham Middle School located in Charlotte between Myers Park and South Park was named for the Graham brothers' father. Alexander Graham was the Superintendant of Charlotte schools for 25 years. And this was during the period when public schools was still an idea whose worth had to be sold to the public. And after all that work, Republicans legislators are trying to destroy NC's public schools just because racist legislators can't stand the idea of their grand-daughters sitting in class next to a black boy.
 
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