WU: Taking DEI to Court
While the cabal of far-left ideologues and interest groups complain that America’s zealous pursuit of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) is not far-reaching or radical enough, a coalition of oppositional…
While the cabal of far-left ideologues and interest groups complain that America’s zealous pursuit of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) is not far-reaching or radical enough, a coalition of oppositional…
…report for many more): “In 2006, the [American Bar Association] ABA then required law schools to demonstrate ‘concrete action’ to admit students (as well as hire faculty and staff) who…
…the evils of “Whiteness” could be fired). Even though the bill does not mention “culture,” the Left is quick to seize on flattering portrayals of Western civilization or culture, or…
…I’d walk by in the halls, conversations would stop. The reaction overshadowed my long-planned retirement, but the attacks didn’t stop when I finally left in 2021. My name was subsequently…
…observable realities that undermine linguistic practices such as standard pronouns, bestowing upon us the plethora of pronouns that have made a mockery of liberal arts colleges and universities whose faculty…
…SU administrators had taken it into their collective heads to impose an ideology that its science faculty found inimical. As SU faculty (employees, to be frank), they would have had…
…who would reflect those values and bring the faculty to heel. To say that the ideas Buckley critiqued are still prevalent on modern American campuses would be an understatement. Less…
…the pursuit of truth with the enforcement of ideological uniformity. The far-left campaign continued unabated—it even included an attempt to cancel my course in the middle of the academic year….
…their success in the year 2023, but it would be very easy to find programs for all other demographic groups. Why exactly are white faculty, staff, and students invited to…
Review: Brutal Minds: The Dark World of Left-Wing Brainwashing in Our Universities by Stanley Ridgley (Humanix, 290 pages, $29.99) I only attended Vanderbilt University’s 2022 Jumpstart Virtual Conference to see…
…Violating this three-part aspiration of rational behavior (prevalent in politics), creates many of the problems we see in higher education, because it leaves students (and faculty) without any kind of…
…discerning truth is what earned them faculty appointments. In their capacity as professors, they regularly perform this intellectual search-and-destroy mission on undergraduates, graduate students, faculty job applicants, and, most of…
On Monday, academic workers at Rutgers University, including part-time faculty and graduate assistants, returned to their positions, effectively ending the university’s first-ever labor stoppage since its founding in 1766. After…
…statements to proclaim the importance of free speech and expression; 4. Imposes post-tenure review requirements on faculty; 5. Essentially bans faculty strikes; 6. Requires faculty to post course syllabi for…
…way for faculty to act unprofessionally or teach or express ideas in an unscholarly manner. Faculty do not have license to teach whatever, whenever, and however. In short, academic freedom,…
…class, the entire faculty, or the entire academy enlisted the chatbot in the same conversation. Would Bard have learned in the same way or made the same arguments? Would Bard…
…to push an ideological agenda. To conservatives, the faculty-selection process is clearly broken. There has long been a leftward drift among faculty. Samuel J. Abrams and Amna Khalid found that…
…pre-professional faculty. [Related: “Don’t be a Luddite with ChatGPT”] That is because the subjects taught by STEM and pre-professional faculty appear to be most likely to be replaced by AI…
…is a charade. Stick with DEI against the crazies, he urges, since there will be no political price to pay, even if it means defying the law, trustees, students, faculty,…
…research afforded to the members of the faculty. Both these functions could be performed at a cheaper rate, apart from these very expensive institutions. Books are cheap, and the system…
…Almost daily, I receive emails about safe spaces—not for students, but for faculty. The LGBTQ+ Writing and RSCA (Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity) Support Group announcement, for example, asked, “Are…
…campus, because that’s what we want.” Universities support vigorous responses by students and faculty to speech with which they disagree, including courteous protests outside the venue, the use of placards,…
…feature of modern American universities is faculty control over faculty-personnel decisions. The independence of the faculty is meant to ensure that professional merit and not political favoritism [by which BT…
…extras. It’s a no-brainer. The importance of defunding the university’s ancillary amenities to eliminate DIE cannot be exaggerated. Imagine campus life if schools did not fund all the left-leaning student…
Leftists specialize in pejorative labeling of anyone who disagrees with them, calling them racist, sexist, homophobe, transphobe, Islamophobe, deplorable, etc. But they save their ultimate insults for their most important…
…faculty ideology immediately reveals some powerful geographic differences. While no region has many conservative professors, 61 percent of faculty in the Middle Atlantic states are either liberal or progressive, as…
…the title of the film and curious about its contents, roughly the same number of students, at least one faculty member, and possibly others unaffiliated with the university stormed onto…
…bias (inevitably in favor of Democrats and leftists) within both groups undercuts their credibility. At Twitter, 98.7% of employee donations to political candidates went to Democrats. In higher education faculty,…
…racist. And when faculty members dare to question affirmative action, diversity, systemic racism, and white supremacy, the wrath of the woke mob is immediate and unrelenting. One such faculty member…
…of administrators. This would mean using expansion rather than termination to establish New College’s non-leftist faculty.” [Related: “The Next Step in Florida’s Education Revamp”] Sergiu Klainerman Professor of Mathematics, Princeton…