Higher Education Tag

Legendary Prof. Mark J. Perry Explains How He Fights Politically-Correct Campus Bigotry

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 10, 2023 14 Comments

On Prof. Glenn Reynold's new Substack, Prof. Perry explains his success fighting politically-correct bigotry: "In 2022 alone, the OCR resolved 170 violations of Title VI and IX at 97 colleges and universities based on my complaints...

https://twitter.com/KunkleFredrick/status/1298344285079838720?s=20

Analysis: The Destructive Power Of ‘Diversity, Equity and Inclusion’ Doesn’t Stop At Higher Education

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 10, 2023 15 Comments

Prof. Jacobson: "At Cornell, they now require DEI statements from all new hires, faculty hires, and all faculty promotions. So as warped as the ideological outlook is among faculty in universities, it’s going to get worse...

DeSantis Appoints Chris Rufo and Other Conservatives To Transform Lefty “New College” Into The Hillsdale of Florida

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 06, 2023 40 Comments

This is how to do it. Rufo: "Left-wing radicals have spent the past fifty years on a 'long march through the institutions.' We are going to reverse that process, starting now. Gov. DeSantis has laid out a vision for recapturing the institutions and restoring them...

“Where I’ve come out pretty clearly on higher education is that it cannot be reformed from within”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 26, 2022 48 Comments

My speech at the Parents Unite Conference in Boston: "academia is pretty much gone, and now the question is how do we protect society from academia, because it can't be changed. The systems are there, the bureaucrats are there, the DEI statement requirements are there,...

Is Florida Planning to Sponsor an Apolitical Higher Ed Accreditation Agency? Or Shopping For One?

Posted by Johanna Markind on December 19, 2022 12 Comments

Although we have not particularly focused on the Florida public universities’ accreditor, Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS), Legal Insurrection and others have noted the politicization of school accreditors generally....

STEM Is DEI-ing

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 16, 2022 25 Comments

A recent National Association of Scholars Report finds DEI "has spread rapidly through the universities and colleges of the United States. The most alarming spread has been that which infects the natural sciences, where it undermines the norms of open discourse, objectivity, devotion to evidence,...

Ohio State Symposium Portrays Conservative Politics As “Extremist”

Posted by Johanna Markind on October 19, 2022 13 Comments

Oppose vaccine mandates? Open borders? Think CRT is taught in your kids’ school and don’t like it? You’re a right-wing extremist!...

San Diego State U. Suspends Prof for Showing a Slide With Racial Epithets in a Class About Race

Posted by Mike LaChance on March 09, 2022 18 Comments

Professor J. Angelo Corlett has been suspended by San Diego State University after a student complained about racial epithets used in one of his classes. Corlett, who is Latino, did not just randomly use the language in question. The words were on a slide because the class was about race.

Egyptologist’s Assertion That Kyle Rittenhouse Killed ‘Two Black Men’ Unravels Like an Old Mummy

Posted by Leslie Eastman on January 08, 2022 57 Comments

There are many valuable lessons for UCLA professor Kara Cooney and her editors in this aftermath of this fiasco....

Send A Letter: American Bar Assoc. Proposed Mandated Law School Race Curriculum Will Restrict Academic Freedom and Debate

Posted by GEH on June 25, 2021 21 Comments

On May 25, 2021, the American Bar Association published for comment proposed revisions to Standards 205, 206, 303, 507 and 508 of the ABA Standards and Rules of Procedure for Approval of Law Schools.

Rutgers President Clarifies Stance Against Anti-Semitism After Outrage Over New Brunswick Chancellor’s Apology

Posted by Stacey Matthews on May 30, 2021 18 Comments

"Rutgers deplores hatred and bigotry in all forms. We have not, nor would we ever, apologize for standing against anti-Semitism," Rutgers University President Jonathan Holloway posted sometime Saturday in response to the backlash....

Rutgers-New Brunswick Chancellor Apologizes for Condemning Anti-Semitism (Update: University President Responds)

Posted by Stacey Matthews on May 29, 2021 28 Comments

"In hindsight, it is clear to us that the message failed to communicate support for our Palestinian community members. We sincerely apologize for the hurt that this message has caused," Chancellor Christopher J. Molloy wrote a day after condemning the rise of anti-Semitism in America....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVplDz5yO-I

Student Loan Debt Forgiveness A Giveaway To Democrat ‘Overproduced Elites’

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 17, 2020 40 Comments

Like the proverbial broken clock, The Atlantic takes a break occasionally (not quite twice a day) from pushing fake anti-Trump narratives and derangement, and runs an opinion article that sheds meaningful light on the pathologies that drive leftist cancel culture and authoritarianism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta0V-2GnOkQ

Can Higher Ed Be Saved From ‘Cancel Culture’?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 30, 2020 11 Comments

Tonight, Sunday, August 30, 2020, at 8 p.m. Eastern, we will have our panel on Saving Higher Ed From Cancel Culture. Registration is required, sign up here. We will close registration, which now exceeds 500 people, no later than 5 p.m. today.

Justice Dept: Yale discriminates in admissions against Asian Americans and whites

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 14, 2020 10 Comments

We constantly hear that there is systemic racism in higher education. That's true, except not in the way propagandized. The last existing systemic racism in higher ed takes place in the admissions process at elite institutions, in order to achieve a racial mix preferred by administrators and activists. The primary victims of such practices are people of Asian descent.

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