A “Reverse Canceling” and its Critics
…so many Princeton professors signing a letter including this demand is that, as The Atlantic’s Conor Friedersdorf discovered, a few of them don’t agree with what they signed. Friedersdorf emailed…
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Liberal Education and Politics
…read the books, but we never even entertain the possibility that what they say is true. Which is to say that we don’t really read the books. But why don’t…
Diversity is Important. Diversity-Related Training is Terrible.
…on the menu that don’t create change, you’re purposely not creating change. It’s part of the intentional discrimination.” * These programs became especially important beginning in the mid-80s to early-90s….
I Want To Return To The Classroom And You Should Be Begging Me To…
…with a wide range of students, abilities, and backgrounds. We have those about whom we don’t need to worry. We know that they will learn what we have to teach…
Rethinking Higher Education Delivery in the Modern Age
…they will tell you: “But how do you know a course is designed with you in mind? The QM Certification Mark. We don’t create the course, but we create standards…
Anti-Racism’s Threat to Academic Freedom
…cardiologist Dr. Harriette Van Spall tweeted that the article’s “historic stereotypes [don’t] account for structural biases that kids face leading up to their applications,” and, in another tweet, she called…
Minute 14 for Robin DiAngelo
…like her, and so it is worth a moment to learn something about it. The “Dialogue” of Thought Reform One of the first characteristics to learn about critical racialist…
George Mason University May Discriminate Based on Race in Unconstitutional Ways
…the audits don’t necessarily lead to a finding of racism. (See Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod v. FCC (1998)). That risk of illegal discrimination against whites is heightened by the fact that…
Virus ‘Stress’ Prompts Students to Demand Easy A’s at Harvard
…be reasonable if the colleges had good reasons, such as the difficulty for colleges to set up distance learning, or for colleges to learn how to use distance learning software….
How Low Can Higher Education Go?
…don’t get an informed citizenry. The damage is not just to those who don’t learn anything at all. The better students show some improvement in their writing and reasoning skills,…
The Power of Liberal Peer Condemnation on Conservatives
…and all his supporters very well might. The bigger story here is that many young Americans have failed to learn the basics of pluralism and the First Amendment. They don’t…
The Real Reason for Racial Achievement Gaps
…don’t want to damage the self-esteem of minority students. Accordingly, they have lower expectations and set lower standards for minorities to offset the advantages that white students have from “white…
Jordan Peterson: Torture by Bad Journalism
…white man” remark that he didn’t think to cite his very profession in response. The whole idea of “you-don’t-listen” may have struck him as so absurd that he couldn’t come…
Survey Confirms Unfairness of Campus Title IX on Due Process
…“to develop a deeper understanding of their behaviors and the trauma caused to others”? The authors don’t say. [Fake Claims of Rape Due to Trauma Are Under Scrutiny] The issue…
The Humanities Throw in the Towel
…history, the humanities today are beset by declining student enrollments and a sharp drop in academic prestige. The troubles, however, don’t stop there. If in doubt, consider the new exhibit…
A Racially “Woke” Agenda Is Now Hardwired in Public Schools
…and communities of color.” Therefore, Seattle will “rehumanize” math. Students who still don’t get it will have the excuse that math is somehow unfair to people of color, a notion…
The Slow and Tortuous Death of the GRE
…follows from losing the GRE. “What do they know that we don’t?” If a process without a GRE secures a few more students of color in the mix, the officers…
College Summer Reading: A Mandated Dive Into ‘Oppressed Minorities’
…is “just a normal guy” who “loves to sleep in” and likes Netflix, take-out, “spending money on stuff I don’t need,” and “silly cat videos on YouTube.” He writes in…
The Garden of College Excellence Is Growing Weeds
…– extramural research, athletics, community relations, programs in countries that don’t share American ideals, much less Kronman’s — in concert with people and institutions who neither share not understand it….
When Radical Ideologies Corrupt Universities
…students being loud, obnoxious, and ignorant. “See?” she remarked sardonically. “This is what happens when Western parents don’t teach their kids to respect authority.” Bulgarians and most Eastern Europeans for…
The Wolves of the Academy
…You don’t have to be J. Robert Oppenheimer to devastate campus airheads, space cadets, snowflakes, social justice warriors, hare-brained cultural Marxists and others who traffic in comic stupidities. So, when…
A Fantasy for the Sexes
…At work, women exchange knowing smiles signifying that men ‘Just don’t get it.” Finally, some men are organizing around the issue of emotional harassment, the problem that hitherto has had…
How Diversity Hijacked History 101 and All the Humanities
…sliding; programs are disappearing. I don’t even want to link to any reports showing waning numbers such as the stunning fact reported by the Modern Language Association that 650 programs…
Why More and More Students Won’t Speak Up in Class
…way of giving them the confidence to find their voice.’ Don’t Become Judged After reflecting on the problem of the silent seminar and discussing this problem with some undergraduates, I…
Why Men Are Falling Behind in Schools
…compared to 19.5% of girls. There is an equally large gender divide in terms of overall school marks.” [Report: 74% of All Colleges Don’t Uphold Due Process for Accused Students]…
Reminding Us Why Racial Preferences are a Bad Idea
Jason Riley, one of my favorite writers, is black and opposes racial preferences (for all groups) on the grounds that they don’t solve underlying problems, sow discord, and become a…
Race and Gender Studies Kick Shakespeare Out of Class
…conservative thought, a war that if you don’t win, you perish. “Civility is shrinking and civil peace may be in jeopardy. Masked anarchists use force to block conservatives from speaking…
DeVos Urges Campuses to Promote Free Speech
…“injurious” or ones they just don’t like. This patronizing practice assumes students are incapable of grappling with, learning from or responding to ideas with which they disagree. Such limits on…
The Coming Implosion After Diversity’s Victory
…that they remained in place and hired people loyal to their vision. Now, diversity means just that: getting more underrepresented people in place. That’s all. The campus managers don’t think…
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