Closing DEI Offices Is Not Enough
…might harm Jewish students, as well as the promotion of shutting the school down at the behest of liberal and aggressive student and faculty groups. Another related illustration involves the…
…might harm Jewish students, as well as the promotion of shutting the school down at the behest of liberal and aggressive student and faculty groups. Another related illustration involves the…
…and the inequality of economic classes. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), for example, states, “DEI programs recruit and retain BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and other underrepresented faculty and students to repair…
…freedom. Who would attend or teach at a college that did not promise academic freedom? My college’s Faculty Manual asserts: “Academic freedom is essential to quality education … [t]he faculty…
…wider segments of the population. More than 200,000 UC faculty voted to consider test scores in admissions, supported by an exhaustive research report showing clear benefits—even for ethnic diversity—from their…
…Some would be thematic. A committee of faculty and students would create the groupings initially, and then monitor them over time. There are four each semester. So, a typical student…
…and imprimatur, should be dominated by a faculty who are followers of Jesus. By that I mean the majority of faculty at an institution of Christian higher education should be…
…over 12,000 faculty members, about half the active physicians working in the Boston area. Only 59 CAFH members come from the one school that teaches undergraduates, the Faculty of Arts…
…opponents. Therefore, only the very best, most productive players can play. Can you say that about, say, the typical college English Department faculty? I was blown away when Jared Gould,…
…possible. Regardless of the material they present, anyone delving into MIT’s sprawling website, following the Tweets of its most radical faculty, or reading the screeds published in the faculty newsletter…
…of neighborhood choice, diverging housing demands in different metropolitan areas and migration patterns, are at play. With better data and better faculty measurements, Sander, Kucheva, and Zasloff speak with reason…
…administrators per 1,000 students, or roughly one administrator for every four students. Many positions focus on “diversity, equity, and inclusion.” This includes a “director of equity data initiatives,” a “faculty…
…in class with liberally biased, activist faculty members and are well aware of the various task forces run by “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) offices, which punish students, manipulate the…
…interactions with students, faculty, and staff. Failure to do so may limit promotions, future job opportunities, etc. Faculty now talk about the “weaponization” of concepts like free speech and academic…
…as an academic totem; as an indulgence, that faculty seem to consider beyond any boundaries of definition or responsibility. Limiting academic freedom would delimit faculty expression, and such restraint is…
…in the private sector. A 2021 study found that between 1976 and 2018, full-time faculty increased by 92 percent and students by 78 percent, while “full-time administrators and other professionals…
…to Sasse: Dig deeper. Eliminating those 13 positions is a fine start, as is the ending of 15 other DEI-based “administrative appointments.” The translation of that second category is faculty…
…her eleven refereed journal articles and her Ph.D. dissertation. Despite the initial circling of the wagons of the Harvard professoriate and administration in support of her—several hundred faculty members wrote…
…the presentation of the views of the whole faculty. Faculty representatives should be selected by the faculty according to procedures determined by the faculty … [which may take the form…
…kicked out of their training programs. This remains so, even though many institutions that enforce these mandates on health care students do not do so for faculty, staff, and patients….
…one really concentrate … when what preoccupied the faculty was how to excise the word wine from a Hemmingway story? Nafisi’s female students were in a similar position. “Although they…
…example, the law school’s “Asst. Dean of Faculty Diversity and Community Relations is now Asst. Dean for Experiential Learning & Engagement,” he told The Fix. He had similar criticism of…
…courses? Are there topics that faculty members are instructed to stay away from? How often do administrators meet with CCP officials? What process does the CCP employ in deciding which…
…of the parlor pinks, is Governor DeSantis of Florida, where “woke goes to die,” thank goodness. Their cri de coeur is that faculty in the Sunshine State are eyeing the…
…University of Oslo, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover Queens University, McGill Faculty of Law University of Buenos Aires, University of Frankfort am Main University of Stellenbosch, SA Albany Law School,…
…study of connections between hormones and behavior. I ended up in the unusual position of not being tenured faculty (so, relatively low in the Harvard hierarchy), but having a contract…
…students and faculty say through bias reporting systems and filtered faculty hiring based on race and political views. Budget cuts should not be needed to cut down on these departments—they…
…universities, such a policy would require endorsement by the full faculty—through a faculty senate—as a demonstration of “shared governance.” But not at Harvard, which has no faculty senate. Former Harvard…
…impact on the beliefs of impressionable students. In Spring 2022, I attended multiple meetings of my college’s Anti-Racism book club. The club was sponsored by the Faculty Senate and was…
…and actually start fixing these issues. That starts with administrators and faculty holding themselves accountable. Harvard’s administration has proved itself more than prepared to pontificate about its ideals and recite…
…conversations where faculty can teach without fear of losing tenure and have guest lectures and diverse intellectual programming if they create and support these new institutions with faculty and funding….