The Cost of Ignoring First Principles
…faculty member or the individual student. The university is the home and sponsor of critics; it is not itself the critic. It is … a community of scholars … it…
…faculty member or the individual student. The university is the home and sponsor of critics; it is not itself the critic. It is … a community of scholars … it…
…grounding in how academic silos function. Another challenge would be that faculty and administration would raise various defenses as to why their silos are sacrosanct. Putting those likely challenges aside…
…increasingly leftist bias among university faculty members. Either hypothesis has its merits, but to better explain how otherwise ordinary students so quickly became pogrom promoters, it would behoove us to…
…President Kristina Johnson began, without faculty approval, a new initiative to hire 50 faculty members focused not on academic excellence but on “social equity” and “racial disparities” and an additional…
…is a perfect example of DEI’s irreparability. The atrocities committed on October 7th exposed the identity-based hate on campuses across the country. As a result, countless Jewish students and faculty…
…become sufficiently institutionalized, and of course, if they carry monetary rewards. But this gets at the essence of the “free speech” obsession by law faculty—it really isn’t about speech, but…
…positive proposal. Any of these schools could take a major step towards re-gaining public respect by showing that it is willing to hire to its faculty a recognized critic of…
…general education substantially, by hiring new faculty with the expertise required to carry out that shift, without shrinking a comparable number of existing programs and faculty. The model GEA provides…
…women doctoral students. In the biological sciences, there are more female doctoral students than men (Figure 3). This in turn mirrors the demographic distribution among university faculty, who both train…
…United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.” Photo by joeycheung — Adobe Stock — Asset ID#: 180666863…
…However, the most exciting thing about this campus is its robust team of faculty and advisors. The talents leading UATX are not normal either. Instead, UATX’s talents are “composed of…
“You don’t look Asian because your eyes are round instead of oval.” “She’s the most pregnant woman I’ve ever seen.” “Prospective law students prefer to see young faculty faces rather…
I once sat on a faculty hiring committee for an international studies position that rejected a candidate because she failed to apply the theories of Edward Said to her work….
…board of the National Association of Scholars and is also currently a faculty fellow at Heterodox Academy. She is co-author of Repatriation and Erasing the Past (2020). Image: Adobe Stock…
…outrageous reactions from faculty, including: Cornell professor Russell Rickford who said the various crimes against humanity left him “exhilarated.” Mika Tosca, a professor at the Art Institute of Chicago: “Israelis…
…with the broader public. That public has been increasingly disenchanted with colleges and universities, although they have largely, if begrudgingly, tolerated their immaturity. However, collegiate behavior, by students, faculty and…
…denouncing me, saying that the university must punish me, and further demanding that students determine what may and what may not be said and written by university faculty. (The students’…
…for 16 years. I met with over 400 students in Evanston 1-on-1 at their request, and I spoke on campus regularly. I also met with over 200 faculty members 1-on-1,…
…its scope, rename itself accordingly, and launch a 10 million dollar nationwide advertising campaign in support of free speech. The foundation’s twenty-four years of work defending faculty and students against…
…make formal commitments to DEI as a requirement of the faculty performance and tenure review process. Since March 2022, the CCC system, the largest system of higher education in the…
Until recently, on its faculty hiring page, Ohio State University’s (OSU) College of Arts and Sciences listed a form called the “Faculty Search Diversity Recruitment Report.” The document describes itself…
…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…
On August 8, the Arizona Board of Regents (ABOR), which governs Arizona’s public universities, confirmed that it has ended the use of diversity statements in faculty job applications. Common but…
…“On Adjunct Faculty as Victims”] Underlying all of the above outcomes is the basic assumption that the purpose of graduate study is to prepare for employment—graduate school is professional school….
…between the actual curriculum taught by actual faculty in academic affairs, and the faux curriculum taught by fake faculty who call themselves “college educators.” Many, if not most, of the…
…University is cutting back, which includes laying off some tenured faculty. Liam Knox reports: Neither Gee nor Reed placed much emphasis on the role of state disinvestment in creating WVU’s…
…less hiring and more firing, which is not as rewarding. Polling shows that public support for academia has declined sharply. Politicians have grown more demanding and controlling. Students and faculty…
…readers may think that this is just more of the same. The academy is overwhelmingly liberal and progressive—so what? Others, particularly faculty and administrators, may think it is merely an…
…deny I said this to you. When we do faculty hiring, we’re quite conscious that diversity is important to us, and we say diversity is important, it’s fine to say…
…university, one without walls, can democratize education: all of us, students included, can have their personal cobot (collaborative robot). Faculty and administrators may become distantly remembered professions that hold sentimental…