Members of the media and faculty erupted into histrionics at the recent appointment of Darrell Allison to the chancellorship of Fayetteville State University. It is a great scandal, they claimed; … Continue reading “Perpetual Scandal-Mongering as a Political Tool”
In March 2018, the University of Arkansas Board of Trustees adopted new rules that fatally undermine academic freedom. We authored this piece for the Martin Center explaining the damage the … Continue reading “Professors Fight to Save Free Speech on Campus and Academic Freedom in Arkansas”
“Class discussions trend towards group-therapy sessions,” wrote Toni Airaksinen in 2016 for Quillette. At the time, she was studying at Barnard College and described moving from an initial infatuation with … Continue reading “Gender Studies’ Value Is Under Question—And for Good Reason”
If you want to see one example of why a new populism has emerged in American universities in the last 10 years, take a look at a statement issued last … Continue reading “Faculty in Denial about Own Role in Decline of Humanities”
Editor’s note: This is the third of a three-part series on faculty roles in higher education. Part I by Fabio Rojas is here and Part II by Jay Schalin is … Continue reading “Defining Faculty Roles: In Defense of the Activist-Scholar”
In 2010, a seemingly insignificant event in a far-off land caught my eye. The Israeli academic world was having a fracas over the actions of “post-Zionist” faculty that raised important … Continue reading “Academic Freedom in an Age of Political Correctness”
Parents of Marquette students can now rest assured that their children in college will be “safe” from homophobic and other politically incorrect indoctrination; professors of philosophy will no longer consider it their “mission” (pace Socrates) to subject widely accepted meanings and values to intensive reexamination; and professors of other subjects who manage their own private blogs now know that what they formerly considered to be “free speech,” even in their extracurricular activities, has now been redefined by their employers.