Student Affairs: The Real Threat on Campus
…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…
…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…
…the plug. The merit principle may be valued, but only in the abstract. Junior faculty do not advance up the ladder by endorsing academic excellence at the expense of racial…
…department as racist, and even abusive, during the student interview. Later, in a conversation with a faculty member, he referred to that student’s digression as “intense.” Notably, nearly every paragraph…
…2021, my faculty union issued what amounts to a fatwa against my work on the positive aspects of European colonialism. This work, the union averred, “generates a hostile environment for…
…have asked hundreds of institutions about the DEI madness they’re funding, promoting, and demanding of students and faculty. The DEI infection has spread in part because of a lack of…
While voters have repeatedly registered their opposition to racial, ethnic, and gender preferences in academic admissions and hiring, administrators, faculty, and the National Association for College Admission Counseling consistently undermine…
…would cost to pay tenure-track or tenured professors to teach them. Almost ten years ago, some estimates suggested that adjunct faculty (sometimes called “contingent faculty”) made up nearly three-quarters of…
…observable realities that undermine linguistic practices such as standard pronouns, bestowing upon us the plethora of pronouns that have made a mockery of liberal arts colleges and universities whose faculty…
…faculty a salary from its endowment income rather than have the professors charge students directly (keeping most of the proceeds). When professorial income depended on obtaining tuition money directly from…
…academic excellence. To maintain its current enrollment levels of underrepresented minorities without racial preferences, Harvard will have to eliminate its special admissions categories (legacy, dean’s list, and children-of-faculty-and-staff) and broaden…
…anyone in attendance. Through this event and many others—including a faculty panel in March of this year on the importance of cultural literacy—as well as his everyday engagement on campus,…
…SU administrators had taken it into their collective heads to impose an ideology that its science faculty found inimical. As SU faculty (employees, to be frank), they would have had…
…who would reflect those values and bring the faculty to heel. To say that the ideas Buckley critiqued are still prevalent on modern American campuses would be an understatement. Less…
…knowledge and intellectual freedom, must combat this growing tide of dogmatism. Administrators, faculty, and students need to rally behind the principles of open dialogue, humility, and intellectual curiosity, allowing schools…
…The Black community at SLS has suffered from the administrative constraints placed on both BLSA’s capacity to create a safe space for its members and the ability of faculty like…
…students and faculty are afraid to express their opinions, recalling life in the old Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, and in today’s North Korea and China. As the Ivory Tower…
…their success in the year 2023, but it would be very easy to find programs for all other demographic groups. Why exactly are white faculty, staff, and students invited to…
…(post-)modern schools has a large Achilles heel: the cessation of our complicity. If faculty, staff, students, parents, alumni, trustees, and any other stakeholders of higher education simply refuse to comply…
Curiosity or Ideology? On the morning of September 11, 2001, faculty members at an elite college in Massachusetts aimed their frustration at President Bush. We stood like a small crowd…
…university students think that it’s at least “somewhat acceptable” to shout down a speaker, many academic administrators, and even faculty members, are emboldened to erode freedom of expression under the…
…compared to essentially zero when I began teaching nearly three score years ago. Administrators, who do no teaching or research, usually outnumber the faculty. Layers of bureaucracy can be removed…
…Revolution or the stories that Machiavelli collected in The Prince makes that clear. The founders of UATX—President Kanelos, Provost Jacob Howland, four academic directors, five faculty fellows, seven trustees, and…
…qualify for a decent job. While not all students subjected to their regime have acquiesced in this re-education, too many have. Woke academic administrations and their faculty allies have radicalized…
…Violating this three-part aspiration of rational behavior (prevalent in politics), creates many of the problems we see in higher education, because it leaves students (and faculty) without any kind of…
…discerning truth is what earned them faculty appointments. In their capacity as professors, they regularly perform this intellectual search-and-destroy mission on undergraduates, graduate students, faculty job applicants, and, most of…