Some of These Institutions Need to Die (But They Won’t)
…and donors who try to do so should be called on it and mocked. There’s an idiocy to elitism, which, although unavoidable, must be checked. Such institutions’ faculty, staff, students,…
…and donors who try to do so should be called on it and mocked. There’s an idiocy to elitism, which, although unavoidable, must be checked. Such institutions’ faculty, staff, students,…
…liberal social contract,” recently published a piece titled “Can DEI Be Salvaged?” Mr. Adorney criticizes the ideology known as DEI but has soft spots for the D and I. It…
…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…
…opportunity to revitalize the meaning of a “Great Books” or “Classical Liberal Arts” education. Current approaches include St. John’s, Hillsdale, Thomas Aquinas College, the Program of Liberal Studies at Notre…
…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,…
…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…
…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….
…in not-so-progressive Maine, several faculty members have reported being intimated by the school’s DEI bureaucracy and activist students. One Anthropology professor was reprimanded by the school’s Dean of Faculty for…
…the Harvard mainstream faculty appeared to solidly support Gay—a faculty petition calling for the board to defend her garnered more than 700 faculty signatories. Where contrary voices played a role…
…it not for her elevation first to the deanship of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences and then earlier this year to Harvard’s presidency. At that point, her meager record…
…with angry protests from some faculty, students, and alumni. An editorial titled “The Rumor Confirmed” in the Cornell Daily Sun of March 3, typifies the responses elicited by news of…
…silos. Looking back to the medieval university, seven liberal arts were required for a degree—arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, music theory, grammar, logic, and rhetoric. Today’s university has dozens of disciplines, stylized…
…President Kristina Johnson began, without faculty approval, a new initiative to hire 50 faculty members focused not on academic excellence but on “social equity” and “racial disparities” and an additional…
…dose of pluralism: “In a liberal society we beat bad ideas with better ideas.” Other thought leaders tend to agree. In their eyes, pluralism has the potential to replace DEI…
…among students, it represents a renewal of American classical liberalism. As Friedrich Hayek stated in The Constitution of Liberty, “If old truths are to retain their hold on men’s minds,…
…mission is to “uphold the standards of a liberal arts education that fosters intellectual freedom searches for the truth, and promotes virtuous citizenship.” And we never stray from that by…
…reforms and replaces the failed system of cafeteria-style distribution requirements geared to faculty research specialties, rather than to the true requisites of liberal education. The GEA first creates a new,…
I once sat on a faculty hiring committee for an international studies position that rejected a candidate because she failed to apply the theories of Edward Said to her work….
…“On Adjunct Faculty as Victims”] Underlying all of the above outcomes is the basic assumption that the purpose of graduate study is to prepare for employment—graduate school is professional school….
…readers may think that this is just more of the same. The academy is overwhelmingly liberal and progressive—so what? Others, particularly faculty and administrators, may think it is merely an…
…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…
…live the life, a life that UATX itself suggests is produced by liberal education. A useful question for the selection of future faculty, administrators, and trustees could be, “Is this…
Higher education administration has become dysfunctional and dangerous—illiberal, incompetent at its core educative functions, but all too effective at infecting our republic’s civil society with woke ideology. It must be…
…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…
…schools are typically less open to free speech. Further analysis reveals a troubling gender gap between male and female students: women are far more liberal and more likely to encourage…
…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…
…machine code and its algorithms weight and assess these words. [Related: “How AI Could Save Liberal Education”] I asked Bard about whether it lies. In passing, please note that the…
…universities, elevating the most extreme voices while terrorizing students and faculty into silence. Restoring sanity to our campuses, and thence to society, is an urgent imperative. Yet a heavy-handed frontal…