October 16, 2008

Weighing the Evidence: New Studies on Racial Preferences at Three Universities

Glenn Ricketts

NAS affiliates helped the Center for Equal Opportunity document discrimination in law school admissions.

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October 15, 2008

Deactivated

Peter Wood

A professor at Carroll University is disappointed when she tries to teach students to be activists.

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October 14, 2008

Hypergelasts

Peter Wood

Are you ever hangry? Do you ever blamestorm? Then expiscate some new words with us.

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October 10, 2008

Hiring Discrimination and Quotas at OSU?

George W. Dent

A statement from the Ohio Association of Scholars about the "Comprehensive Equity" program at OSU, which seeks to increase the number of women appointed to faculty positions in the sciences.

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October 10, 2008

LSU Campaign Retreats to its "Safe Space"

Ashley Thorne

What's with the purple stickers on faculty members' office doors?

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October 9, 2008

Making Allowances

Ashley Thorne

Want to keep students on the track to academic success? Pay them!

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October 9, 2008

Circling Arizona: Mission Creep at a State University

Steven Anderson

An ASU-sponsored research center studies minority health disparities.

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October 6, 2008

UPDATE: CAUT's Empty Accusations

Peter Wood

The AAUP Canadian counterpart tried some unoriginal smears on Argus and NAS; we set the record straight.

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October 2, 2008

The Cave

Peter Wood

It's October - time to pay attention to recent and upcoming trends in higher education, like the student loan crisis, the rise of distance learning, the therapeutic campus, and sustainability.

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February 13, 2024

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The Great Academic Divorce with China

All signs show that American education is beginning a long and painful divorce with the People’s Republic of China. But will academia go through with it?...

January 24, 2024

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After Claudine

The idea has caught on that the radical left overplayed its hand in DEI and is now vulnerable to those of us who seek major reforms. This is not, however, the first time that the a......

February 2, 2024

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Tribalism or Individualism?

The most immediate work of conservatives must be the rejection of tribalism and a refocus on the individual—individual character, industry, and aptitude....

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May 15, 2015

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Where Did We Get the Idea That Only White People Can Be Racist?

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....

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Ask a Scholar: What is the True Definition of Latino?

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?...

September 21, 2010

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Ask a Scholar: What Does YHWH Elohim Mean?

A reader asks, "If Elohim refers to multiple 'gods,' then Yhwh Elohim really means Lord of Gods...the one of many, right?" A Hebrew expert answers....