Fighting Microaggressive Oppression at Duke
Editor’s Note: The following is a letter to the editor of Duke Today, written by an anonymous professor in response to Duke University President Vincent Price’s November 18 article, “President…
Editor’s Note: The following is a letter to the editor of Duke Today, written by an anonymous professor in response to Duke University President Vincent Price’s November 18 article, “President…
…the University of California, Riverside, says that “Racism is a mechanism where resources and unfortunately power, wealth, prestige and even humanity are distributed along a color line.” Nida explains that…
…included an attempt to ban my book, outrage against an op-ed I wrote, and an overblown reaction to a photo of me holding a skull, San José State University President…
…a “First Amendment Center” at the University of Texas Law School and efforts to open a privately-endowed “Liberty institute” at UT), university administrators have repeatedly shown that while they will…
…University, and Nikias wanted USC positioned to survive the major earthquake that Los Angeles will eventually face. His strategy was to develop a university-wide capacity for large-scale distance education. With…
…must be carried by university-indoctrinated “woke” missionaries beyond campus, to the schools, to business, to the professions, to the legislatures. This universal university ideology, according to Bari Weiss on Substack,…
…excluded. Because the Supreme Court held in Fisher v. University of Texas (2013) that colleges cannot employ racial preferences unless “no workable race-neutral alternatives would produce the educational benefits of…
…Latinx Student Center at the University of Virginia are lobbying the university’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Manager to keep the University Police Department out of their safe spaces. Student activists…
…What’s Become of the Common Good? (2020). This past spring, Blackfriars Hall at Oxford University entered the arena with its own Common Good Project. Blackfriars is a Dominican institution, so…
One of the most alarming developments in the current COVID vaccine war appears in the form of a relatively harmless-looking September 16 press release from the University of California at…
A scorched-earth campaign by Woke “anti-racists” is laying waste to America’s education and future. Part II offers a sobering update on the rapid progress the Left has made, as well…
…oppose the use of race in college admissions decisions. Recognizing this, the Regents of the University of California voted in 1995 to end affirmative action programs at all University of…
…misogynist in a histrionic open letter by Particles for Justice, a posse of modern-day Puritans who hunt academic thought criminals, led by New Hampshire University physicist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, a self-described…
…been complicit. An early signal came from the University of California’s admired president, Clark Kerr. In an engaging 1963 Harvard Godkin Lecture (published as The Uses of the University) Kerr…
…misconception. It’s the explicit position of the most famous exponent of critical race theory, Boston University’s Ibram X. Kendi. The “key concept” in Kendi’s book How to Be an Antiracist…
Editor’s Note: This article was written by a Canadian university professor who wishes to remain anonymous. The decision of the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) executive on April 22,…
…discrimination is future discrimination.” This requires equal group outcomes in employment specialties, government contracts, and university admissions and graduate rates. CRT calls this “equity,” another euphemism for race preferences and…
In a university course on the sociology of death and dying that I teach, we spend a few weeks discussing the death penalty. Students in my class are uniformly surprised…
…Anthropologist Editorial Collective of Footnotes Department of Anthropology of American University Department of Anthropology of Northwestern University Core Members of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology’s Committee on Language and Social…
…intends it to do so. I contend, then, that a renewed and strengthened commitment to the academic mission of the university on the part of university people will solve the…
…books and articles. Future Liberty Fund events include a series of virtual reading groups at the Online Library of Liberty, EconLib, and Adam Smith Works. Reinsch notes that LF will…
…universities today, and only what is taught. There are no alternative perspectives allowed. Universities have a monoculture from which students and professors may not deviate. Every university has scores or…
…Consequently, I’ve become increasingly sensitive to the definition and framing of concepts. This led to serious reservations upon discovering that my Swedish university would be promoting “sustainable development” in its…
…Sheck’s future uncertain. Months later, the university concluded that Sheck had not violated their policy concerning discrimination. The accommodationist perspective is also shared by black Harvard Law Professor Randall Kennedy….
…a common narrative around a common fabric of themes. Papers and conferences on the era, such as at the University of Texas in 2012 or Texas Christian University in 2017,…
The president of George Mason University wants to give minorities a big advantage in hiring until the faculty is as heavily minority as the school’s student body and the future,…
…the world was brought about by Western imperialism and colonialism? That is the message of “postcolonial theory,” the dominant narrative in university social sciences, humanities, and education. Canada in particular…
…that planning ahead (“future time orientation”) is a white characteristic that it is racist to expect minorities to exhibit. In June 2007, the Supreme Court struck down the Seattle Schools’…
During my fifty years teaching anthropology at McGill University, my impression of undergraduate students was of reasonable young people, many of whom were seriously engaged in learning about the world…
…E. (2019). Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration and the Future of White Majorities, Penguin UK and Abrams USA., p. 462; Alba, R. (2020). The Great Demographic Illusion: Majority, Minority, and the Expanding…