The Yale Sex Harassment Controversy
The academic gender wars are back in the news, with the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights announcing an investigation into a Title IX complaint against Yale University. Sixteen…
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Fighting Back Against Campus Anti-Semitism
…a mix of classic anti-Jewish stereotypes and “progressive” anti-Israel defamations. While it is difficult to quantify the extent of the problem – in part because of the dismal state of…
Washington Invents an Anti-Bullying Law
…argued that the Klan’s presence would constitute racial discrimination in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the school board…
What Characterizes the Modern Totalitarian, Corporatized University?
…unacceptable by administrators now carried swift punishment. Professor Alan Charles Kors and I dubbed this radically altered campus “The Shadow University” in our 1998 book of that title. After its…
The Impasse at Hamilton College
…years I have held the title of Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History. Last week I sent a letter to Chairman of the Board A. G. Lafley, resigning my…
Title IX Claims More Victims
…part of an effort to comply with Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. The university’s announcement said that, in the past, it has sought to comply with Title…
A Terrible Time for New Ph.D.s
…the postmodernist mumbo-jumbo in the titles of the scholarly papers presented: “Back in Black: Theorizing the Sequel in Marlowe’s Tamburlaines” (that’s an actual paper title from the 2009 MLA meeting)….
The Odd Cold-War Center at NYU
…called “The ‘Seven’ Lean years: Defending Civil Liberties during the McCarthy Era.” Another session is termed “Naming Names in New York City: Teachers, Morals and the Anti-Communist Purge.” The title…
Could the Feds Tell College Students What to Do?
…– It has already been seriously suggested that Title IX be used “to withhold Federal or foundation-derived funds from undiversified departments.” – The EEOC, the Justice Dept., and the Dept….
Let’s Not Portray the President as a National Therapist
Today’s New York Times editorial on President Obama’s speech yesterday in Arizona bears the title “As We Mourn”, a straightforward and simple heading, but the first sentence is striking: It…
No Labels = No Thinking, and No Fighting for Principles Either
…the essay, “We the Jury: The Metaphor of Classroom as Courtroom,” published in a 1998 collection titled Feminism and Composition Studies. Drawing on the work of Drucilla Cornell, Desmet imagines…
On Teaching Conservatism
…departments in the United States. A course such as this, with a different title, might be found more abundantly in political science curricula, but my empirical intuition is that even…
Why Caltech Is in a Class by Itself
…sports teams beyond the traditional football, basketball, track, and baseball; 2) the requirement in Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972 that females not be discriminated against in college…
“Bake Sales” Still Cooking On Campus
…to the argument that the language of, say,Title VI — No person in the United States shall, on the ground of race, color, or national origin, be excluded from participation…
The Bill Ayers Decision and Conservative Misjudgment
…at University of Illinois-Chicago, and the next step was to assume “emeritus” status. The title is granted by the trustees and usually follows without question. This time, however, at the…
Conservatives Love War, They Say
…the title “Why Conservatives Love War.” The title says it all: Far from being saddened, burdened, or vexed by violence, conservatives have been enlivened by it. Not necessarily in a…
Even More Sustainability
…association with an imposing 13 line signature (name, title, address, various phone & fax numbers, email and web addresses); the last line of the impressive signature was the injunction to…
Academic Conferences: the Oppressed Versus the Oppressors
…system. His project, supported by NAME, may be about to run afoul of a new Arizona law prohibiting ethnic studies with a separatist and anti-American bent. The title of Romero’s…
Ahmadinejad’s Beachhead at Yale
…announced plans to execute six of the arrestees.) “Another Iranian Revolution? Not Likely” was the title of the Leveretts’ piece, which criticized Obama for conducting only “half-hearted efforts at diplomacy”…
Another Bill Ayers Controversy
…that emeritus status isn’t automatic at UIC, and also that the trustees have authority under the UIC bylaws to have final word on which professors receive the title, which appears…
California’s Most Anti-Semitic College
…Published in the print and electronic media, they brought bad publicity and sometimes rose to the level of legal complaints as in the Zionist Organization of America’s Title VI complaint…
Black Women Underrepresented in Soccer – Threat to Diversity?
On August 30, I noted here that Title IX Has A Disparate Impact–for Black Women. The occasion for that piece was an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Narrowing…
Title IX Has A Disparate Impact–for Black Women
…IX itself focuses on gender in isolation. The second is that Title IX advocacy has really focused on sports in isolation,” she says. “When we use Title IX to try…
The Suicide of English
…occurs in the title. The NATC claims to deal with ‘theory,’ not with ‘literary theory’ and with ‘criticism,’ not ‘literary criticism.’ One cannot help but be impressed by the effrontery…
An Open Letter to New Professors
…the novel Lucky Jim. Jim wrote the perfect article with the perfect title, which “crystallized the article’s niggling mindlessness, its funeral parade of yam-enforcing facts, the pseudo-light it threw upon…
Why So Many Administrators?
…offices and buildings keep proliferating. An important report by Jay Greene sheds light on it. It bears the title “Administrative Bloat at American Universities: The Real Reason for High Costs…
Is This Book Invisible?
…G. Wells’s fantasy, or even more likely, that perennial TV favorite, The Invisible Man, a 1933 movie starring Claude Rains in the title role. Or its cinematic sequels, The Invisible…
Those Accountability Rules for Student Loans
…without it? And shouldn’t we use these metrics to determine institutional eligibility for participation in Title IV loan programs? The canard that only for-profit colleges and universities that offer vocational…
The Sad Transformation of the American University
…status of dean, a title, I soon learned, that means very little except that the dean is a metaphorical hydrant on whom those above and those below choose to urinate….
Ethnic Studies: ”White Studies” in Black and Brown?
…the title of the book implies to the kids that they live in occupied America, or occupied Mexico,” Horne said last week in a telephone interview. To defenders of ethnic…