Amy Wax in the Crosshairs
…racist. And when faculty members dare to question affirmative action, diversity, systemic racism, and white supremacy, the wrath of the woke mob is immediate and unrelenting. One such faculty member…
…racist. And when faculty members dare to question affirmative action, diversity, systemic racism, and white supremacy, the wrath of the woke mob is immediate and unrelenting. One such faculty member…
…of administrators. This would mean using expansion rather than termination to establish New College’s non-leftist faculty.” [Related: “The Next Step in Florida’s Education Revamp”] Sergiu Klainerman Professor of Mathematics, Princeton…
…white supremacist faculty weaponizing right-wing ideas. Based on his book, co-authored by Jennifer Ruth, he states that such faculty ought not to be given the protection of academic freedom: We…
…Prevention (CDC) initially prioritized essential workers for COVID vaccines over the more physically vulnerable elderly because the latter are disproportionately white, as (left-leaning) political scientist Yascha Mounk details in “Why…
…the insight of countless thinkers and policymakers around the globe, even though the faculty and my peers were left-of-center. [Related: “A Collegiate Reality Check”] The retiring administrator noted that the…
…U.S. baby supplies retail market, the specter of expensive baby wipes haunting the faculty lounge that solidified Khan’s appointment, is unchanged at about 20%. Her overreach on behalf of novel…
…Generally, DEI offices work to enforce the dictates of wokeness on campus. On both sides of the aisle, students understand that DEI is synonymous with cultural leftism. This means that…
In her piece on the problems of diversity, inclusion, and equity initiatives in the sciences, University of Southern California chemistry professor Anna Krylov compares the USSR, which she left in…
…on the Left until he was repulsed by the murder of a woman friend, a killing for which he held the Panthers responsible. He describes this transition in his book…
…the MIT administration is still reeling from alumni and faculty blowback over its cowardly behavior.) When asked by the New York Times about the effect of such cancellation on academic…
…rarely walked back upon revelation of the hoax, as Wilfred Reilly reminds us: When a student makes a false claim of bias at a typical elite American university, the faculty…
…Study of Inclusion, Diversity and Equity) and Nate Brown (“Math faculty like me can be a major barrier to diversifying STEM fields”) added to their scholarly research an opinion article…
…was on campus, only to be shocked by its intolerance once I had left. Earlier this year, I read both Fahrenheit 451 and One Day in the Life of Ivan…
…the peace, and the matter passes. Nobody is fired. [Related: “Are Woke University Policies Killing People? They May Soon”] The possibility of such “talks” to faculty may be the more…
News of the University of Oregon’s October 14 conference on academic freedom sparked a furor. The lineup of conference speakers was totally unbalanced politically, made up entirely of leftists and…
…to the faculty and student body deriding the election of Trump. If only someone in academia told him that leftist, anti-democratic screeds might be looked askance outside of the academic…
…but also tries to set the terms of student discourse and engagement. This occurs inside the classroom—with administrators now playing a role in faculty hiring through diversity, equity, and inclusion…
…particular allegation. The matter, however, did not end there. At an Arts Faculty Council meeting in March 2021, a colleague asserted that a number of indigenous scholars had left MRU,…
…is the university’s dedication to making DEI-commitment the litmus test for faculty hiring and promotion. That is even the case in the School of Engineering, where faculty are now told…
…of a book called White Guilt. Instead, it was left to readers to transduce the volatile phrase “polite brutality” back into what had to be read as “police brutality,” otherwise…
…Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. As economic historian Phil Magness notes, “This ‘faculty job’ at a tax-funded public institution is nothing more that overt far-left ideological…
…what comes next? I began by asking whether legacy higher ed—the historic institutions that we know and (used to) love—is a lost cause. If left alone, it probably is, but…
Whenever the associate vice president for faculty and staff diversity at San Diego State University (SDSU) sends an email from work, her signature identifies the school as “a proud Hispanic…
…cost of college through loans. “. . . The Department of Education has already taken significant steps to strengthen accountability,” the statement said, “so that students are not left with…
…research and teaching statements—that includes additional information and guidelines. These guidelines are developed by the faculty advisory team which also prescribes best practices for diverse faculty recruitment. These include the…
…limiting what they say on campus. That those on the Left are able to speak more freely has been well documented. These numbers suggest that it is primarily conservative students…
…faculty, who believe that academic freedom is generally a liberty with few if any boundaries. This can put law pedagogy in an awkward, and more importantly, counterproductive position regarding how…
…masquerades as education and enforces intellectual and ideological conformity among students, faculty, and staff. But while the general perception of universities has soured recently, the typical American still holds some…
…anti-Semitic expression—the university is being made to answer for its failure to protect Jewish students and faculty with a new Title VI complaint filed on July 19 by the American…
…of progressivism. But surely, once it began, would-be revolutionaries at other universities felt emboldened by the brave comrades who came before them. Even now, it seems that leftist faculty and…