…as mechanisms for choosing the best candidates while undermining academic freedom. And that is a problem, not just for higher education but for prospective students and faculty as well. Determined…
…again long-term. With their funding threatened, universities will make it appear that they again adhere to freedom of speech and meritocracy without curbing the leftist bias of their faculty and…
…prohibiting the mandates of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) in areas like faculty hiring and classroom instruction. Anticipated changes at the federal level are solidifying hopes that insidious practices of…
…in the midst of a technological tipping point. We see this in faculty guides from the Chronicle of Higher Education and the University of Texas at Austin’s collaboration with Grammarly….
…Although there have been stories of universities abandoning DEI statements for hiring faculty and admitting students, other universities will double down on their DEI agenda. For example, the University of…
…is further detrimental to Jewish students on campus who desperately need the support of faculty right now. While Jewish and Zionist faculty can’t fully stop anti-Semitic ideas from spreading on…
…supposed DEI measures. In a landscape of DEI research and seminars for university faculty members, it appears no measures have been put in place to actively promote education on and…
…students. [RELATED: Ivies in Crisis] Having worked as a contingent university faculty member since 2012 and having taught the eye-opening summer school courses, I wholeheartedly agree with Bauerlein’s recommendation: teaching…
Imagine if a university faculty member claimed to have developed a vaccine for the common cold but refused to present her methods or evidence publicly. How would the university react?…
…faculty advocacy are not even subjectively ideological in nature, subject to federal penalties, including total funding bans for DEI-related policies that violate civil rights laws. Congress should enact legislation that…
…about the science of learning. In fact, few of the faculty I interacted with in the school of education, many of them sociologists with only a vague notion of what…
…the guide. The Faculty Guide The Faculty Guide at the University of Texas at Austin is not mandatory but acknowledges the diversity in faculty interest and competence with AI,…
…away with race-based discrimination, specifically through the Art History department’s Bridge-to-Faculty (B2F) program. Galarowicz explains that the “B2F program is a postdoctoral recruitment program that fast-tracks ‘underrepresented’ scholars to faculty…
…faculty are disproportionately afraid. 52 percent of conservative faculty worry about reputational damages, compared to 43 percentof moderate and 35 percent of liberal faculty. 55 percent of conservatives, versus 17…
…sample language from a study she cited. [RELATED: Kill Implicit Bias Theory] “Student evaluations of teaching play an important role in the performance review of faculty,” Professor Zheng wrote, according…
As a college professor for 38 years and an “out-of-the-closet” conservative for at least 20 of those years, I’ve gotten used to being a little careful about what I say…
…called DEI officers, who are found, at great expense, in every faculty, and, in some universities, in every department. Objections expressed to official policy are suppressed through re-education programs, punishment,…
…students, and b) Full-Time Faculty: 1) (if applicable) applicants for open faculty positions, 2) employed faculty, Curriculum Ethical behavior, diversity, equity, inclusion, and critical thinking are integral to counselor preparation…
…to Scientific Integrity] For most of my 35-year, full-time research university faculty career, the competition for NSF funding set one of the academy’s gold standards for merit-based recognition of scientific…
…public trust and ensure intellectual diversity that reflects talent rather than racial quotas. 3. Recruiting Ideologically Diverse Scholars: Faculty at many universities lean heavily toward one political ideology, limiting students’…
…other as regards the desirability of race and sex preferences in student admissions and faculty and staff hiring. However, the majority opinion of the entire faculty, unfiltered by senate leadership,…
…its civic-minded IDEAs in Action curriculum, including at two Faculty Council meetings in 2019. The concept was hardly new in 2023; indeed, some faculty had long opposed it. [RELATED: Will…
…such as hiring more faculty or buying more library books. [RELATED: Borrower Defense to Repayment Should Be Abolished] There is a direct relationship between student financial aid—particularly student loans—and rising…
…legitimately differ from their illiberal peers and even faculty. One student responded to the anonymous Jewish student, “I pray to a god I do not believe in that I never…
…applications even argued that it would be unethical to recruit a diverse student body without an equally diverse faculty. The History Department, which received the Bridge to Faculty award in…
In recent years, activism has become increasingly visible in academia, often permeating classrooms, faculty hiring practices, and research agendas. This trend has generated both support and concern across university campuses….
…and often stubborn faculty members to cooperate with your plans. (For years, I had a photo of Donna Shalala on my cubicle wall with a caption about how a faculty…
…to support blacks and females, regardless of their records and abilities, whether as students, fellow faculty, or administrators, and so endorsing Kamala Harris was just one more step in a…
…the October 7 Hamas attacks. While I understand that students sometimes protest out of ignorance, neither faculty nor the administration acted against this disruption, which violated campus rules and stifled…
…or early 1970s, the University of Oregon (Eugene) set up a program that allowed non-faculty to teach accredited courses at the university—for no pay—if they could receive a faculty sponsor…