University President's “The Year of Free Speech is shaping up to be public relations window dressing,...
My appearance on the Shaun Thompson Show on AM 560 The Answer in Chicago: "It's very well known. A lot of the students are fans. A lot of the alumni are fans. Frankly, some of the faculty are, but they don't want to admit it....
"By the fourth week, the students had stopped smiling."...
"free expression cannot coexist with DEI"...
"Comedian and Cornell alumnus Bill Maher seems to think so"...
"my excitement was short lived after I read the names of the scholars chosen for the Steering Committee for Free Expression, none of whom have championed free expression at Cornell"...
"women are actually at parity with men in journal publishing, peer review, and grant-getting. And for hiring, women have a substantial advantage over men...
My appearance on the Jesse Kelly Show: "So it's at one level hopeless, at another level, the conservative students on campus keep me going."...
“The Student General Assembly Resolution is a gross attempt at speech and academic content policing which infantilizes students, relies on faulty claims that academic content worsens PTSD, and violates the academic freedom of faculty”...
“It is troubling how little academic freedom is regarded by many of the students here at Cornell”...
"Israel is the enemy of all humanity"...
“Anytime we can get both sides of an issue on a college campus debated, I think that’s a victory for free speech”...
"The concern with DEI statements is that they send a message that adopting a group identity ideology is mandatory, as DEI focuses on group identities"...
"Does anyone who is reading this now believe that Cornell perpetuates slavery?"...
It's been 15 years since I joined Cornell, and yesterday my contract was renewed for another 5 years. I'll be 69-years-old at that point. Assuming I stay until then, I'm still not taking another official photo. Enough is enough....
The Cornell Review, Cornell Political Review, and College Republicans will host FIRE's Nico Perrino, who will speak about the speech climate at Cornell to ways to improve campus discourse....
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...
The truth still matters. Elon Musk was right, the "hands up, don't shoot" narrative from the Michael Brown shooting "was a fiction." Deal with it....
