How Identity Politics Boosts College Conservatives
…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…
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Professor-Student Sex—Just a Problem of Dirty Old Men?
…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…
‘We Made This (Harassment) Law Up From the Beginning and Now We’ve Won’
…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…
The Purge of the Deviants May Go Too Far
…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….
The Decline of the Humanities and Who’s to Blame
…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…
When Students Kill Important College Courses
…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…
Free Speech–Where Are the Adults in the Room?
…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…
Protecting Academic Freedom Through All the Campus Smoke
…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.”…
Race and Gender Crowd Already in Mid-Season Form
…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…
Why I’m Leaving the Political Science Association
…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…
What Damore’s Memo Taught Google
…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…
Are Conservative Fears of Campus Indoctrination Overblown?
…is a real problem, which to some degree reflects discrimination in academic job markets. Hiring discrimination does not make university faculty bad people; it just makes them people. As Louis…
Colleges Are Drawing the Contempt They So Richly Deserve
…who was caught on video saying, “I need some muscle over here!” to expel a student reporter from a protest at the University of Missouri in November 2015. And it…
Are Teachers the Last Defense Against Artificial Intelligence?
…in the evolution of humanities automation this morning. The University of Michigan is testing an “automated text-analysis tool” in large lower-level science classes, a program that lets teachers assign more…
How Colleges Promote Censorship and Undermine Free Speech
In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley writes: “There isn’t any need for a civilized man to bear anything that’s seriously unpleasant.” In his sanitized future, general happiness and social stability…
Napolitano and the Decline of Berkeley
…the plaza are named, was the president of the University of California from1930 to 1958. During that time the university transformed itself from a regional university to a nationally respected…
Student Grievance: Righting Imaginary Wrongs
…the angrier student agitators get and the more vociferous their demands that the entire university is forced to conform to the particular terms official victim groups prescribe. And since anger,…
Colleges Still Lack Integrity on Canceled Speeches
…its dormitories because many fewer students cared to attend a university that couldn’t keep the peace. The University of California, Berkeley, after canceling Anne Coulter’s scheduled speech and hearing that…
Racial Preferences–Time to End Them?
…if one specifies the level of university activity at which racial assignments are permissible to achieve the critical mass. Is the level campus- wide? academic program–wide? each major, or only…
Panic Over Sex Assault ‘Crime Wave’ Overtakes Yale
Spangler notes that the university “uses a more expansive definition of sexual assault” than does either Connecticut state law or the federal government (through Clery Act requirements). The university has…
You Will Attend Purdue’s ‘Safe Zone’ Training Session
On January 18, the academic leadership of Purdue University received a letter from Mark Smith, dean of the graduate school. It said: On behalf of the Diversity Leadership Team, I’d…
Enough of the College-for-Everyone Agenda
…that makes the whole nation better off. Writing in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Philip Trostel, a professor at the University of Maine at Orono, has just reprised that number….
How Non-Judgmentalism Undermines Education
…gives pride of place to Colorado Mesa University’s Safe Space Program. It “emphasizes the importance of creating non-judgmental and non-biased space for students to have an open platform about any…
Due Process Wins a Battle Against a University’s Kangaroo Court
…process ruling about the effects of a guilty finding on the accused student. He noted that a university deeming a student a rapist would have enormous consequences on his future…
Unfairness in the Minnesota Football Rape Case
…chief, a university lecturer expert in addressing questions of credibility, the Director of Gender and Sexuality Center for Queer and Trans Life at the University of Minnesota, and the legal…
College Students Get Special De-stress Therapy After Trump Election
…Odds with Mine To our students (Oglethorpe University): Dean Hall and I invite each of you to join us this evening (Wednesday, November 9) in the TLCC dining hall at…
College Faculties, Heavily Tilted Toward the Left, Shun Diverse Viewpoints
…2.7:1. Today, it has mushroomed to36:1. Furthermore, the data show that the D:R ratio is lowest among emeritus professors and highest among assistant professors. Therefore, it appears, in the future…
Brown U. Messes Up Sex Assault Case, Accused Prevails
…“Dear Colleague” letter has ended with a victory for an accused Brown University student. Chief U.S. District Court Judge William Smith—as he had strongly hinted during oral arguments in mid-August—vacated…
The Age of Liberal Education Is Ending
…have created a stifling, anti-intellectual monoculture, and they are now attempting to remove the last pillars of the traditional university: free thought and free speech. Once those are gone, America’s…
The Feds Now Run a Bureaucracy That Regulates Sex
…sex.” This is largely the result of pressure from the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights, where I used to work. It has told colleges like the University of Montana…