…how much the academy has gone to great lengths trying to keep such statistics secret. [H]igher-education researchers evince remarkably little interest in how faculty use their time. ‘One of the…
…the Board. Her goal? To convince the Board to allow UVA’s existing liberal faculty to attempt to summarize the conservative position on controversial topics rather than hire conservative faculty to…
…Administrative bloat is another target of Vedder’s. Universities now often employ more administrators than faculty. At his alma mater, Ohio University, Vedder found that administrators outnumbered the teaching staff. These…
…Wood agrees, writing: Their years spent in close company with radicalized fellow students and woke faculty may have given the majority no more than a veneer of sympathy with the…
…company with radicalized fellow students and woke faculty may have given the majority no more than a veneer of sympathy with the social justice agenda, and life will wear that…
…and “equity” initiatives are now common in medical schools. The liberal arts used to focus on what was common to all of humanity—hence “the humanities.” They instructed us on our…
…in partisan terms, Haque believes that the problem goes much deeper than political score-settling. As he rose through the ranks—from graduate student to postdoctoral fellow to medical researcher to faculty…
…John Silber, was a maverick liberal who believed in Big Government but scoffed at the intellectual shoddiness of the academic left. As a result, he ended up appointing a retinue…
…in general, they seem to be trying to fit a conservative peg into a liberal hole. Other than AID, all the other platforms both make explicit mention of anti-Semitism and…
…conservative students feel disadvantaged in the application process: “Right-leaning students and the handful of conservative faculty have concluded that the deck is stacked and are loath to waste their time.”…
…and faculty can engage in respectful dialogue about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. [RELATED: A Faculty Guide to AI Pedagogy and a Socratic Experiment] A Reflection about Professor AI Professor AI, without…
…LLMs generally encounter a liberal reply paradigm. The problem appears to be systemic. The LLM liberal reply pattern is partly attributable to the underlying data on which the AI models…
…campuses.” SLC, where I have been on faculty for over 15 years, was deservedly on this list. Since Cristle Judd took over as the college’s President in 2017, SLC has…
…solid liberal arts education can be good preparation for a lifetime in the world of work. But the odds are against small liberal arts colleges, mostly dependent on tuition fees…
…promoting the balance he now claims to value? Where was his pushback against the madness? The anti-Semitic, violence-endorsing faculty group—Sarah Lawrence Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine—organized unsanctioned, one-sided…
…comfortable valleys of contemporary culture, American education will continue its decline. Humanities faculty too often put the cart before the horse, encouraging students to take political stances before developing foundational…
…lean of faculty and recent movement of sizable numbers of faculty toward activist-scholar roles, not adopting a neutral role is dangerous leadership and allows the school to succumb to political…
…known, liberal faculty are far overrepresented in academic institutions. The confluence of cultural-ideological tendencies and academic pedagogy leads to specific problems in preparing new generations of clinicians. The distinction between…
…review of the performance of tenured faculty. We should put some limits at state-funded schools on faculty wishing to overturn long-held conventions on the running of academic villages called “universities.”…
…to supporters.” It’s not possible to isolate the precise influence of these alumni from parallel pressure applied by Republican lawmakers, conservative trustees, and heterodox faculty, but college donations dipped nationwide…
…faculty and administrators–and far too many members of American higher education–believe the same pro-Hamas ideologies that animate SJP students. The Bowdoin Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine (FSJP) chapter,…
…by a shift in power, with university leaders exerting increasing control over hiring, research priorities, and even faculty speech. The rise of contingent faculty—part-time adjuncts and full-time lecturers without tenure…
…who are subjected to discrimination, harassment, and intimidation on the basis of their Jewish ancestry and ethnic identity. The complaint established how SLC administrators and faculty failed to protect or…
…not worrying about political correctness or the prospects of being canceled is the crucial first step towards reforming the culture on college campuses. This applies to both faculty and students….
…have elevated race above merit. DEI statements act as political litmus tests, with universities requiring applicants to pledge allegiance to a host of draconian orthodoxies, including “anti-racism.” Faculty have also…
…an end to higher education’s persistent violations of civil rights. We stand for liberal education that fosters intellectual freedom, the search for truth, and the promotion of virtuous citizenship,” he…
…publishing to giving outside talks and teaching classes. In every case, conservative faculty are substantially more likely to hide their lights under a bushel than are their liberal colleagues. The…
…needed. As faculty members, shouldn’t we consider those needs and concerns seriously? The censorship of conservatives and denigration of their ideas on college campuses is well known. But now is…
…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…
…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…