How UT-Austin Administrators Destroyed an Intellectual Diversity Initiative
"Universities no longer even maintain the pretense of dispassionate rational and free inquiry, focusing instead on a particularly toxic and frankly absurd form of 'social-justice' activism, increasingly even in the hard sciences. Why does this situation persist? Here, I can contribute to our understanding, having had a front-row seat to perhaps the most spectacular failure of a higher-education reform effort in recent memory: the 'Liberty Institute' at the University of Texas at Austin." - The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal, 7/1/22
GW defends Thomas appointment amid calls for removal from law school
"George Washington University rejected calls to remove Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas from its law school faculty by students and others frustratedover the judge’s vote to overturn Roe v. Wade and his urging to reconsider other landmark civil rights cases. In a message to the campus this week, officials defended Thomas, who has lectured at the law school since 2011." - Washington Post, 7/1/22
Va. Community College System Board Pressured by Governor
"The board of the Virginia Community College System agreed Wednesday to add a representative of Governor Glenn Youngkin’s administration to the search committee for a new chancellor. The move came after Youngkin told board members to include his administration in the search process or resign, The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported. Youngkin has been pushing to be involved in the search for several months." - Inside Higher Ed, 7/1/22
Mills Becomes a Part of Northeastern
"Mills College officially becomes part of Northeastern University today. The merger was first announced last June, and it was opposed by some students and faculty at Mills. Current Mills students can graduate from Mills or transfer to Northeastern at no expense. Mills, historically a women’s college, will become 'gender inclusive.'" - Inside Higher Ed, 7/1/22
Repairing the Road for Returning Students
"To stabilize enrollment and ensure their long-term viability going forward, institutions of higher education must look beyond the declining pool of first-time, full-time learners and place their focus on the estimated 36 million students in the U.S. with some college credit but no degree. This is also a social and economic justice imperative at a time when an increasing number of new jobs require education or training beyond high school—yet individuals from racial and ethnic minority groups are disproportionately represented in low-wage career paths." - Inside Higher Ed, 7/1/22
Abortion Is a Higher-Ed Issue
"Let’s be clear: Abortion is a higher-ed issue. Most abortions in the U.S. are provided to women in their 20s, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Women aged 20 to 24 accounted for 28 percent of abortions, while those aged 25 to 29 accounted for 29 percent. ... Abortion makes it possible for students to pursue, and complete, higher education. Research has shown that the 'most common reason' young people drop out of college is unplanned pregnancy." - Chronicle of Higher Education, 6/30/22
Montgomery Co. schools revise history curriculum in 4th, 5th grades
"Montgomery County Public Schools’ new social studies framework will expose fourth- and fifth-graders to more American history — particularly Black history — at a younger age. The new curriculum will incorporate anti-bias and anti-racist content and local history about Montgomery County, according to Tracy Oliver-Gary, the district’s social studies supervisor. It was presented to the county school board this week and received unanimous approval." - Washington Post, 6/30/22
Learning From Asian-American Success
"Americans can learn from Asian-American success. Parents should expect more, not less, from their children. Of course, such expectations can go too far. But they need not be overdone to improve academic achievement. Canceling honors classes, moving unprepared students ahead, and implying that Indian-American students should 'play small' is certainly not the answer. Life is not a zero-sum game. The successes of some should inspire others to do better, not fuel bitterness and envy." - City Journal, 6/30/22
Columbia U. Won’t Submit Data to ‘U.S. News’ Rankings After Professor Alleged False Information
"Columbia University will not submit data to U.S. News & World Report for the next edition of its college rankings, the provost announced on Thursday, citing an active institutional review prompted by allegations that the university had provided false data to the magazine. ... Michael Thaddeus, a professor of mathematics at Columbia, this year accused the university of submitting inaccurate information to U.S. News." - Chronicle of Higher Education, 6/30/22
Culture wars cover up economic realities on campus
"'Culture' is often the reason given for campus conflicts over issues such as free speech. But they aren’t really cultural issues; they’re economic ones. As the bad economic news keeps rolling in for U.S. colleges and universities (from the Big Quit and inflationary pressures to the demographic cliff), it’s important to keep in mind that economic realities, not cultural ones, largely underpin volatile campus political dynamics." - The Hill, 6/30/22
Why not flood the “harassment” department at Yale with complaints that their new rules cause worry? They have to investigate, right?
I feel like dean minow has the solution. do some research on race relations and intelligence, so the dean will be able to read it and maybe get a better handle on what each word means. these affirmative action degrees and auto-promotion tracks they get do not make for the best quality people in these type positions, as is evidenced here. oh how the mighty have fallen.
I attended a small rural private college from ’73-’77. There were codes of conduct on campus, but they mostly dealt with drinking and illegal drug use, rather than any sort of other conduct. Oh, to be sure, there were academic consequences for cheating or plagiarism, however it wasn’t more complicated than that. Even further, because it was in an area of the Midwest where hunting was an extremely common activity we were allowed to keep our weapons on campus, albeit locked in a room that only the resident staffer had a key to. No one was murdered, no one was raped, no one filed charges of harassment or other offenses in the entire four years I attended the school, and in the three or four after graduation when I was still close with students there.
On a lark last fall, I went to the college’s website, and download the 100+ page student conduct manual which all students must sign, and agree to abide by. I believe, and don’t have any doubt that it’s true that I, along with countless peers of both sexes, would have been expelled from that college within the first month of our attendance there if those same regulations had been in place in ’73.
Coincidentally, of course, the tuition, room, board, books, and fees today are nearing six times what they were at that time, and having read some of the published papers from some of the graduates it is my firm belief that they wasted four years of their lives, and came out with no increase in their intelligence.
What a sad decline in education, where the students don’t really learn anything except that they’re either going to be potential violators or potential victims of “something.” And we wonder at this.
I haven’t contributed money to the school in years, and after reading that document I doubt if I will in the future.
Boomer
I wonder when “worry crime” will be enforced on the basis of “disparate impact”.
I am very worried about the economy and Democrat incompetence. Does this mean I can sue for recourse, with Yale providing the venue?
Farce. Weak people, weak minds.
There were witch trials in CT long ago, I think. Obviously Yale didn’t learn from history.
So if you and your date were to have differences of opinion on a political or legal matter, oh, say like what the real role of the Supreme Court is regarding the Constitution, and her feelings were hurt, you would be guilty of sexual assault?
I guess that’s one way to shut up your political opponents….just date them.
I am hurt that people would demand to see my college transcripts. Obviously, they are racist.
Yet to be seen how the debate will unfold. But practices such as these will continue on campuses until someone wins a hefty lawsuit against them.
College admins are simply responding to the loudest pressure, which at this point comes from various self-styled feminist groups. But sue the pants off them — and win — and a newfound respect for due process will blossom across a hundred campuses…
> For Silverglate, the key word is often “hurt,”
I read this and it reminds me of my youth, when
I used to irritate/harass/torment my sisters.
Often, we would hear: “Mom, Robbie’s looking
at me!” Because I would make these big Dracula-like eyes that would freak them out.
If only it was so funny as what we are reading
above. It isn’t. It’s just as juvenile with
much more sinister outcomes not unlike an inquisition with censure or whatever other
punished doled out for “serious offenses.”
Pitiful.
OK, I’m a gun toting bible clinging rural Nevada hick. So fill me in. Why would you risk 100’s of thousands of dollars sending your boy child to a school like this? I get that one might agree with the prevailing ideology but how can it be worth the risk. Does the administration really see increasing the likelyhood of exposing their male studants to possible life destroying consequences as a smart marketing move? Really?
I wrote a book about this called Bias Incident: The World’s Most Politically Incorrect Novel.
When I wrote the part in which the “victim” who persecutes the protagonist testified that he felt that the protagonist’s motive was hatred (and the court took him seriously), I was worried that it was a bit of an exaggeration.
But, life imitates Bias Incident: The World’s Most Politically Incorrect Novel. (available at Amazon).
If I were a white male attending Yale, I would be worried about how the administration of Yale is interpreting the rules. Does that mean I could charge them with sexual assault if worry is the standard?
The Left is totalitarian.
Any questions?
Given the NYT coverage of the Trayvon Martin incident, is it really fair to characterize any of their reporting as “unusually bad:?