Want to Teach Here? Then Tell Us Your Politics
…used as rallying cries on many campuses). If anyone has doubts that behind these grand terms lies the degradation of academic life, a look at procedures for recruiting new faculty…
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Abandoning The SAT: Why?
…measure that combines SAT scores and high-school grades, has announced a plan, approved by the UC faculty and awaiting ratification by UC President Mark G. Yudof, that would eliminate the…
Campus Factoids and Nuggets of Information
…foreigners, 6 percent unknown). The University of Southern California enrolled the most foreign students in 2006-2007 (7,115) followed by Columbia and New York University. More than half of faculty members…
A Guide To Campus Shakedowns
…training, additional faculty hires from “under-represented” groups, more role models and mentors, special “theme” centers where the vulnerable can feel safe, and on and on). At a minimum, the official…
The Latest Unacceptable Opinion
…One can only imagine how the sponsors of the boycott would react if I and other like-minded faculty insisted that the AALS boycott a hotel chain that supported abortion by,…
Sociology: Too Popular For Its Professors
…academic discipline. One professor described a department of seven full-time faculty members who “view it as a badge of honor to dismiss criminology” and deal with the growing demand for…
Am I Diverse Enough Now?
…their own. According to the UC Berkeley housing website, the benefits of living in a racially themed housing unit include field trips, retreats, and dinner with faculty. The special perks…
Milton Friedman Still Haunts Chicago Faculty
The efforts of some of the University of Chicago’s faculty to derail a planned research institute named after the university’s Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman (1912-2006) is full of delicious…
Mandatory Summer Reading (Yawn)
…University of New York’s Brockport campus, released a survey for the American Democracy Project on faculty and student reactions to Nickel and Dimed, which had been SUNY Brockport’s freshman book…
Money For Even Preachier J-Schools?
…courses, did not fare well, either. Students, alumni, and faculty went into revolt, partly because the tuition and fees alone for the one-year program were already hefty enough (they currently…
Are Accreditors Running The Colleges?
…$60 million in planned improvements. Lassen College? Governance again. The federal accreditors—who are, remember, faculty and administrators—think they know better than the board of trustees. Mira Costa College? Board issues…
No Tenure, Incorrect Citations, And Queer Studies
…available to each faculty member – forcing a choice between, say, a Lexus style insurance policy and no tenure or a low cost insurance policy and the possibility of gaining…
The ABA’s Diversity Agenda
…attended a school that better matches their level of academic preparedness. Some faculty members at law schools would like to move towards fixing this problem. The ABA’s stranglehold on accreditation…
Another Progressive College Folds
…and laid off the last of its faculty members who had served an ever-dwindling number of students. And now, the New College of California in San Francisco, founded in the…
Don’t Agree With The Law? No Problem – Just Ignore It.
…implied threat of being fired, faculty advisers may steer the journalists in a direction the administration wants them to go. So the California legislature overwhelmingly passed a free-speech bill, prohibiting…
How Dartmouth Thwarted Its Alumni
…as many administrators as faculty members—Dartmouth alumni have voted in, four times in a row since 2004, activist trustees who pledged to hold the College’s executives to account. At most…
Milton Friedman Still Irritates Some Professors
A group of professors at the University of Chicago—101 of them, or about 8 percent of the full-time faculty—is protesting the decision to establish an economics research institute on campus…
The Model Minority Myth?
…poverty level. A section of the report titled “A Call for Action” urges that schools “hire more Asian American and Pacific Islander faculty, staff, consultants, and researchers to identify and…
Preserving The Core At Georgia
…the 400 Georgia faculty members who signed a petition protesting the changes pointed out, would have ensured that Georgia college students didn’t learn much, whether about the global economy or…
Trainwreck At William And Mary
…College students and faculty who would have a voice in the selection. The best candidates quite often prefer to keep their considerations of other professional options private so they can…
Abandoning The SAT – Fraud or Folly?
…characteristics in which they typically excel (like expenditures per student, faculty-student ratios or endowments); or even more disingenuously – knowing that most of their top admittees will have furnished SAT…
“Waste Studies”, Anyone?
…of South Florida, where the women’s studies department boasts eight faculty members but only eleven undergraduates interested in majoring in the subject). You can be a distinguished women’s historian, such…
Who Should Speak At Catholic Colleges?
…Michael Mukasey (Law School, 2008) have angered pacifist Jesuits on campus and the more left-leaning lay faculty. It’s not surprising that this year the school opted for the very non-controversial…
NYU’s Middle East Problem
…academic freedom. The development of all the programs at the Abu Dhabi campus will be overseen by the New York-based faculty and senior administrators.” And graduates will receive the same…
What Does ‘Sustainability’ Have to Do With Student Loans?
…sort, not faculty members. A slice of that high-interest $19,000 debt goes to service sustainability czars, diversity vice-provosts, and the rest of the ever-widening “service” oriented bureaucrats whose job is,…
Hire a Conservative Professor?
…word “marginalized,” which clearly puts a damper on faculty conversation. 3)Though they speak fairly well, conservatives are notoriously weak in diversity-speak and postmodern expression, as if these crucial campus tongues…
Unsustainable? A Defense Of ResLife At Delaware
…program usurps the faculty’s historic prerogative to oversee education at the University…By approving the program, the faculty would be relinquishing the prerogative. By this logic, the faculty could ban any…
Unsustainable? No, Wilson Is Wrong
…the extent that encouraging the Faculty Senate to reject the proposal is an issue of academic freedom, it is about the Faculty Senate’s academic freedom to oversee educational programming at…
The Group Of 88: What They’re Up To
…the issue? They were victimized by bloggers and outsiders. According to the Lubiano Trio, “the most extreme marginalization was reserved for the faculty whose professional expertise made them most competent…
Black Success, Black Failure
…for blacks. George Mason University, a state school in Northern Virginia known for the free-market ethos of many of its faculty members, also boasts higher graduates for blacks than whites…