A Crisis of Competence: Update, Comment, and Criticism
May 21, 2012 by Steve Balch |
NAS chairman Steve Balch answers responses to the new report by the California Association of Scholars on politicization in the University of California.
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U Cal President Yudof Responds to CAS Report, CAS Leaders Reply
Apr 19, 2012 by Glenn Ricketts |
The recent NAS report, "A Crisis of Competence, " evoked comment from the head of the University of California system, to which the CAS authors of the report replied
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U California President Yudof Says Political Advocacy Is a Problem
Apr 19, 2012 by Ashley Thorne |
At a press conference UC president Mark Yudof declared his commitment to ideology-free education. Charles Geshekter of the Caliofornia Association of Scholars asked him to say so in a memo to the UC Board of Regents.
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Politics, Education, and More Politics: NAS’s New Report on the University of California
Apr 11, 2012 by Peter Wood |
Peter Wood discusses the National Association of Scholars’ new report that says higher education has been hurt by the failure of safeguards against using the classroom to advance partisan ideas and loyalties.
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The Ugly Politicization of the University of California
Apr 04, 2012 by George Leef |
The recent NAS report on politicization in the UC system is right on target.
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A Crisis of Competence: The Corrupting Effect of Political Activism in the University…
Mar 30, 2012 John M. Ellis |
A report on the consequences of politicization in higher education, focused on the University of California.
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Politics Undermining Learning, Scholars Warn University of California
Mar 30, 2012 |
PRESS RELEASE: The California Association of Scholars has published a report showing how radical faculty members and administrators and politicized courses have compromised the quality of education in the University of California.
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An Extraordinary Course at NC State
Mar 28, 2012 by George Leef |
Highly biased political science course at NC State
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Law Schools Under Critical Scrutiny
Jan 20, 2012 by Glenn Ricketts |
Ideology has pervaded law schools to the detriment of student preparation for practice. Are law degrees therefore still necessary?
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U Florida Students Practice Civil Debate
Jan 20, 2012 by Ashley Thorne |
There's a set of electronic panels in Florida that is supposed to foster civility among students whose opinions differ.
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Will Harvard Stop Trying to Impose Orthodoxies?
Jan 05, 2012 by Harvey Silverglate |
FIRE co-founder Harvey Silverglate applauds the Harvard student newspaper for defending free inquiry at the University, where the faculty is increasingly inclined to enact political orthodoxy.
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Why UCLA’s Firing of a Lone Dissenting Voice Should Worry Us
Dec 05, 2011 by Geoffrey C. Kabat |
The treatment of James Enstrom, whose research threatened environmental activists' efforts to enact regulation, illuminates the politicization of science.
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Historian Victor Davis Hanson on American Higher Ed
Nov 23, 2011 by George Leef |
Former Cal State Fresno history professor Victor Davis Hanson writes here about the sad history of American higher ed over the last 50 years. He refers to "the Fannie and Freddie university" meaning that higher ed has been politicized,… Continue Reading | Leave a Comment >
Academic Liberal Bias: Not All Bad?
Nov 09, 2011 by Glenn Ricketts |
If you're sure of your traditionalist convictions, you've got to read a lot more carefully and thoroughly, and you'll have them subject to far greater intellectual challenge than your liberal classmates will ever encounter.
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Daphne Patai on the Uniformity of Academic Thought
Oct 20, 2011 by George Leef |
Professor Daphne Patai of UMass-Amherst writes about the uniformity of thought she encounters among her fellow academics, which of course ranges from Marxist to "progressive."
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