December 11, 2009
The mania over "diversity" (that is, preferences for certain people whose ancestry puts them into an "underrepresented" category) has swept through most of American higher education. It's bad en......
December 11, 2009
Time to get the word out about opening our membership "to those who are not in the academic world but care about the future of higher education."
December 10, 2009
From the blog Remaking the University is an interesting article with charts showing the decline in the ratio between ladder rank faculty and senior management staff at the University of California. Th......
December 10, 2009
Our friends at the Institute for Humane Studies (IHS) asked us to let our members and readers know about the scholarships (up to $12K!) they award to graduate students through their Humane Studies F......
December 9, 2009
I wonder what’s going on with Google and Climategate? Specifically, I mean why doesn’t the premier mega-search resource’s suggestion function work when you enter &ldquo......
December 9, 2009
Gary A. Olson of Idaho State University has a good article on "The Limits of Academic Freedom" at the Chronicle of Higher Ed. An excerpt: One chair described a senior professor who missed a substa......
December 9, 2009
In this week's Pope Center Clarion Call, I write about an enlightening lawsuit involving a demoted dean's allegation that his school deliberately trashed its academic standards to help retain......
December 9, 2009
I got this email from the National Teach-In for Global Warming as part of an "Education for Sustainability" listserv to which I subscribe: Dear Colleagues and Friends, The hacked e-mails from clim......
December 8, 2009
Now that our leaders have taught us that opposing nationalized health care is supporting slavery, I think it's pretty clear that high school students should be taught that denying global wa......
December 8, 2009
See Inside Higher Ed: Both sides in the case before the court argue that they are defending students from discrimination. "Often university officials don't like the religious groups and we see......
November 20, 2024
With McMahon, the new administration has a chance to drastically slim down and depoliticize the Education Department....
January 8, 2025
The National Association of Scholars condemns the “Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza,” which the members of the American Historical Association passed by 428 t......
January 27, 2025
New FOIA documents grant a window into how the University of Colorado-Boulder, in the name of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, discriminates on the basis of protected class and upholds a co......
May 15, 2015
A look at the double standard that has arisen regarding racism, illustrated recently by the reaction to a black professor's biased comments on Twitter....
January 27, 2025
New FOIA documents grant a window into how the University of Colorado-Boulder, in the name of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, discriminates on the basis of protected class and upholds a co......
October 12, 2010
What does it mean to be Latino? Are only Latin American people Latino, or does the term apply to anyone whose language derived from Latin?...