Most professors and students in the social sciences, humanities, education, social work, and law, and most university officials at Canadian and American universities today have adopted a political ideology labelled…
…the financial future of tens of millions of Americans and the government’s own solvency. Dressed up as a progressive achievement, it is actually a failure – or more accurately, at…
…comes to understand American slavery,” says Hasan Kwame Jeffries, associate professor of history at Ohio State University. Jeffries can be heard speaking in the Legacies of Slavery video about the…
…that the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled in favor of a conservative professor whose academic freedom rights were violated by Marquette University. It effectively fired him for a blog post that…
…has led to much handwringing over the fate of Roe v. Wade, the future of “another landmark case,” Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978), is also at…
…about his experience interviewing candidates. “What I couldn’t understand during my 20 years as an alumni interviewer for Harvard University,” he wrote, “was why my college and other schools seemed…
In an attempt to pressure and embarrass Duke University’s President Vincent Price, an undergraduate student group, known as the “People’s State of the University,” interrupted the President’s speech during an…
…sure enough, my speaking engagements on campus went from more than I could handle to the following experience at the University of Toronto in 2012. A campus association at the…
…May 7 He Was Accused of Rape. Now, She’s Been Arrested. The State, May 6 Big Brother: The Future of Ivy League Fraternities Yale Daily News, May 6 Why I’m…
for exam periods, is now at least temporarily restricted to those with University identification, and a group of students and faculty demanded that the university bar Kessler from campus. As…
…have a bright future ahead.” The students’ own vision for Duke’s future, however, evidently required what they later called a public show of their “activism,” which wasn’t satisfied by the…
Last year, Jordan Peterson, a professor at the University of Toronto, made news when he refused to use the invented pronouns of the transgender movement as prescribed by Canadian law…
…over our discourse makes it hard to imagine and describe a post-liberal future. At another, he contends that the absence of standards defining that future is a virtue. Since one…
…named for the late Sheldon Hackney, the former president of the University of Pennsylvania and the Babe Ruth of modern Sheldonism. As president of Tufts University, Lawrence Bacow looked the…
…Money, may lower your self-esteem. This is a serious, “academic” effort, six-years-in-the-making, and while Caplan, an economist at George Mason University and the Cato Institute, can be witty, this is…
…class. What it really detests is American culture. More than classic anti-Americanism, RAA is a creature of higher education. Yes, old-style radicals were a feature of the American university since…
…previous generation studied in The Freshman Survey, Millennials value family life and want to replicate that with their own families in the future. But, despite their conventional and civic-minded attitudes,…
…raising costs and making university finances more precarious. Thus university presidents often seem oblivious to political reality –the world outside the Ivory Tower. A Nightmare Future of Higher Education It…
…University of Dayton no longer accepts Koch cash, and it will not in the future—despite the efforts of Koch-backed organizations.” The faculty at the University of Dayton are barred from…
…citing concrete political activities by her students, she resorts to feel-good clichés such as “a shared concern about our future,” “who are taking our future in their hands,” “they are…
…their triumph over another male oppressor, one small step along the path toward a glorious future. He’s glad to be out of that future and headed into his own.” In…
…sub-legal system that regularly suspends the routine legal protections most Americans assume will govern when an accusation is made. In my 1998 book Heterophobia: Sexual Harassment and the Future of…
…than one hundred years ago, Durkheim argued that the reason acts of deviance are identified and publicly punished is because defining deviant behavior reinforces social order, and inhibits future deviance….
…extraordinary developments in the humanities, exciting formations such as French feminism and sexuality studies. If the conservatives and traditionalists predicted a dark future of the humanities, well, that was just…
…needs not to observe old, time-encrusted commandments handed down from the Year One, but can decide the course of his own future through reason and deliberation. Lewis responds, simply, that…
…to the administration that their future financial support will depend on a clear affirmation that (a) academic values and intellectual diversity are paramount; (b)academic freedom does not protect those who…
…about both his safety and the safety of Drexel’s community, after careful consideration, the University has decided to place Professor Ciccariello-Maher on administrative leave,” the university said in a statement.”…
…Professor Jones continues, “I saw young people posing questions about the future of our university. How, for example, should freedom of expression operate in the face of hateful acts that…
…Political Science at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, whose co-authored 2016 book entitled Passing on the Right: Conservative Professors in the Progressive University has been a focus of…
…most controversial part of his memo garnered a response from Karen Panetta, Dean of Engineering at Tufts University. Panetta attributed Damore’s views not to his knowledge of the data but…