April 9, 2009

Virginia Tech, Academic Freedom, and Employment Law: Part 3

Tom Wood

In the third and final part of this series, Tom Wood examines the many non-legal objections to Virginia Tech

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April 8, 2009

Virginia Tech, Academic Freedom, and Employment Law: Part 2

Tom Wood

A look at how the current controversy over the tenure policy at Virginia Tech exemplifies the intersection of academic freedom and public employment law.

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April 7, 2009

"The Only Work I Can Get Here Involves Diversity Programs"

Margaret Matthews

"There I was, just one person sitting there, but she was seeing a group." An administrator longs to escape the racial labeling that characterizes her department.

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April 7, 2009

Virginia Tech, Academic Freedom, and Employment Law: Part 1

Tom Wood

Faculty members at public universities are state employees, but public universities are not like other public institutions. So what are the governing principles for faculty employment?

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April 7, 2009

B School Postmodernism: A Gambler's Education

Peter Wood

The financial crisis traces its roots to postmodernist "value-creating" and removal from reality.

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April 7, 2009

Lies in California

Ashley Thorne

John Ellis uncovers the deceptions propagated by UC Berkeley's race-obsessed chancellor.

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April 6, 2009

Letter to VT from Virginia Association of Scholars

Carey Stronach

A letter from NAS's Virginia affiliate to Virginia Tech President Charles Steger urging the university "to abandon its requirement that, in order to prosper, faculty must demonstrate attachment to......

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April 3, 2009

Friday Freeze-Frames

Ashley Thorne

Ward Churchill verdict, UC Berkeley chancellor calls percentage decrease in Caucasian males "a triumph," Why students love college, and Compliments guys at Purdue

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April 2, 2009

Acknowledging the "Knowledge-Politics Problem"

Steve Balch

A response to a working paper by Neil Gross which asserts that professors do not try to force their views on students and which surveys faculty understanding of academic freedom.

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