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…
…policies would logically lead to the possibility that the degrees they earn in the future may be revoked if their future views or actions offend other students or professors. We…
…contemplations, memories, imaginations, moods, feelings, fantasies, guilt, perceptions, motives, a sense of responsibility, morals, intuitions, intentions, the ability to learn, and the ability to plan for the future — all…
…the offensive male majority in those fields. McGill University in Montreal has a program which features placards everywhere on campus celebrating females in science. The University of British Columbia currently…
…Africana Studies at San Diego State University, while Dr. Karenga was recognized as the creator of the African-American ideal of “Kwanzaa” based on a then-fringe intellectual paradigm of social collectivism….
…of articles by scholarly public intellectuals will be censored or withdrawn from publication by journals in the future. We extend an immediate and open invitation to all scholarly public intellectuals…
The Miller Center, an affiliate of the University of Virginia that specializes in presidential scholarship, public policy, and political history, has long prided itself — with some reason — on…
…scores from this method could allow important stakeholders to predict future prejudicial and discriminatory actions of persons toward others on the basis of race? Some believe that they have found…
…examples: Yale University’s motto was “Lux et Veritas,” ‘light and truth’; Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s was “Mind and Hand”; Duke University’s is “Knowledge and Faith”; my alma mater the University…
…California is a mirror into the nation’s future. And it ain’t pretty. Take for instance the mandated ethnic studies class, already a required course in all Cal State University system…
…University falls short in this regard. Peer institutions like the University of British Columbia and Western University clarify boundaries for the academic freedom afforded to their scholars. At UBC, academics…
…away is that the material success of the free market both requires and promotes inattention to the ways in which future generations are taught such politically malleable subjects as history,…
…Psychology: An Evaluation of Current Status and Future Directions. Cham, CH: Springer. Magley, Vicki et al. (2016). “Changing Sexual Harassment within Organizations via Training Interventions: Suggestions and Empirical Data.” The…
…If Democrats take control of the government come November, America is gone, to be replaced by “Woketopia.” In Woketopia your life and future will be entirely determined by your gender…
…that the recently departed and completely decent and brilliant Emory University Psychology Professor Scott Lilienfeld gave us, that of one particular “major microaggression” committed by a great political leader. One…
…student loans, the university must be accredited by an organization that ensures they are meeting minimal educational requirements. The third prong is the Cohort Default Rate, which will terminate future…
For the last decade higher education has been in steep decline, even before students were abandoned to fend for themselves and their futures while our so-called elites dithered over what…
…In recent decades racism seemed to be slowly disappearing. Data, like the graph above, from a University of Illinois survey, showed a steady declinein objective measures of racism from 1937…
…soon as possible, hopefully in the fall semester. Many other schools, however, remain hesitant: Timothy White, Chancellor of the immense California State University system, announced in May that nearly all…
…cancel culture and anti-racism threatens to turn the future of debate over race and affirmative action into no debate at all. Cancelers do not attempt to refute those they scorn;…
The University of Virginia’s Racial Equity Task Force has released its final report, recommending 12 initiatives to promote “systemic change” and racial equity, and it’s everything you’d expect it to…
…school provide training and education around bias, cultural competence, and anti-racism.” That includes the deans at Harvard, Yale, the University of Virginia, the University of Richmond, and the College of…
…to Gandhi or fighting my way through an angry mob intent on his destruction, but who knows what the future brings? Lastly, speaking of the future, I wonder how generations…
The University of Pittsburgh has removed a program director at its medical center because he published a scholarly, peer-reviewed white paper discussing the pitfalls of affirmative action for black and…
…after a convincing demonstration that they really traveled from the future, describe the state of the university in 2020—identity politics run wild, Orwellian language on steroids, cancel culture, trigger warnings,…
…George Mason University as a national exemplar of anti-racism,” with a “metric-driven,” mandatory “vision” of “anti-racism” to be pursued by each “college and school,” incorporated into the “university’s planning and…
…on campus, as universities around the country impose rules requiring adherence to the ideology of “anti-racism,” and its goal of abolishing “racial disparities.” For example, Duke University says it will…
Open Access The University of California signed an open-access agreement with the publisher Springer Nature this past week. That’s an improvement on the status quo—although it’s not yet clear how…
…to the University of California, the passage of Proposition 209 has led to a decreased likelihood of earning a college degree within six years; The University of California has never…