Saving Free Speech
…the most likely place where the disciplinary action or threat of it happened was in private spaces, as 26 percent of those students reported their “offending” speech deserving of discipline…
…the most likely place where the disciplinary action or threat of it happened was in private spaces, as 26 percent of those students reported their “offending” speech deserving of discipline…
…way to pre-empt the plagiarism allegations that had been swirling around Gay before they went public. The board threatened ruinous legal action against journalists who were reporting on Gay’s malfeasance….
…number of its members. The proposed multi-cultural training program at Duke must be judged by these standards. In essence, such a major exercise in group action in a non-emergency situation…
…about Gay’s credentials that they have invited a pall of suspicion over every action they now take. Gay’s letter of resignation is a curiosity that deserves close reading. The first,…
…bother. The proposal openly states that the courses will include topics such as: Race, racialization, and antiracism; Antiblackness; Indigenous methodologies; Activist- and action-oriented theorizing and research methods; Critical and postmodern…
…is true. But private universities are not obliged to respect the First Amendment, which defines restrictions to government action, not to private organizations, which are free to establish their own…
…“in political and social action.” I think a vast majority of the campus brouhahas of today could have been avoided or at least mitigated by adopting and following the principles…
…her life, be it through discrimination, inspiration, or otherwise. Even though the court ruling in its entirety unambiguously puts an end to race-based affirmative action, practitioners and proponents of race-preferential…
…conclude that the best course of action is to forego anti-ideological and ethical arguments in favor of devising economic incentives, is saddening. The consequences of failing to do so, however,…
…to counteract DEI’s grip on college campuses whatsoever. Those on the left have taken the position that all of Hamas’ actions are justified under the guise of “Israeli colonialism,” and…
…to create an action agenda for the law professor, who otherwise is not by temperament or training prepared to act in a principal role. But the more insidious problem of…
…expect an allegation about a “crime scene” of 215 clandestine burials to spur immediate action to hold the perpetrators accountable for such a “grisly discovery.” But despite all the recriminations,…
…famously said, “If the broad light of day could be let in upon men’s actions, it would purify them as the sun disinfects.” We should remember that and take action….
…by these evil actions. But on many college campuses, the Hamas terrorists are being praised by professors, staff, and students. Nellie Bowles and others have documented a partial list of…
…where even unconscious thoughts are punishable. If implicit bias predicts explicitly biased action, as the authors claim, why do we need the implicit measure? Conversely if implicit bias is compatible…
…report for many more): “In 2006, the [American Bar Association] ABA then required law schools to demonstrate ‘concrete action’ to admit students (as well as hire faculty and staff) who…
…the usual water coolant containment), which created a different type of disaster: a runaway chain reaction, fires, and deaths. Yet, the population was harmed more by the Soviets’ unwillingness to…
…call the police and pursue legal action. At the July 12 hearing, SBE President Linda Darling-Hammond even accused the opposition of “circulating misinformation” about the math framework because they have…
…be attended by students. In some cases, school districts tie these programs to state-adopted curriculum, and even to graduation requirements for middle or high school. Action civics, social-emotional learning, and…
…a public law school admits he and his school violate California law, via a process he calls “unstated affirmative action”: What I mean by unstated affirmative action is: What if…
…amiable action, a respectable action, an horrid action, are all of them actions which naturally excite the love, the respect, or the horror of the spectator.” When the spectator reacts…
Affirmative-action peer review The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has supported extramural biomedical research since the end of WWII. This year, the program spent close to $40 billion. The basic…
…is inverted in favor of equity, the practice of making all outcomes equal by means of educational affirmative action in all but name—despite the defeat of Proposition 16 (2020), which…
…by their race. Yet the authors equate this policy to the explicitly race–neutral SCOTUS ruling against affirmative action. The court ruling forbids allocating admissions offers by race; “separate but equal”…
The recent ruling of the Supreme Court of the United States declaring unconstitutional affirmative-action preferences in college and university admissions is a vindication of the noble objectives of the original…
…by programmer bias, guardrails designed to protect humans from each other as well as from AI technology, whether goal and action autonomy will independently evolve with AI, the nature and…
…Brown, and to act in accordance with President Kennedy’s “affirmative action” mandate. Decades after President Kennedy issued his executive order, his definition of “affirmative action” was echoed by the late…
…applied to today’s universities—let them endlessly pontificate about how diversity is their strength, how a diverse student body enriches learning, and how affirmative action is a vital means to achieve…
…Science, Space, and Technology, 84-year-old civil-rights pioneer Eddie Bernice Johnson, asked the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) [T]o take action on research and policy related to diversity,…
…political and social action.” That statement, known as the Kalven Report, argues that colleges and universities ought to stay silent on matters of social and political controversy to help ensure…