It is no secret that American higher education is in crisis due to a lack of affordability, growing irrelevance, and the ideological conformity that prevails in today’s classrooms. Less well-known … Continue reading “Improving Higher Ed Through Better Open-Records Laws”
It’s by now a commonplace story: State universities in “red” states, where most of the voters and legislators dislike progressive ideology, are being infiltrated by administrators and faculty who insist … Continue reading “Woke Capture at UT-Knoxville”
A constant concern in my academic sub-field of comparative politics is how to create concepts and measurements that stand up to scrutiny when applied to several cases. When we hear … Continue reading “Measuring the Spread of DEI”
I am a 72 year old Air Force veteran. After 30 years of service, I was ready to retire when I heard about an opening at a small Christian college … Continue reading “Why Did a Christian College Fire a Tenured Professor?”
Penguin Classics is partnering with Disrupt Texts to replace Shakespeare and Homer with Ibram X. Kendi. What is Disrupt Texts? For the uninitiated, it is a new radical movement in classrooms which seeks … Continue reading “Did You Know? Disrupt Texts Is the Latest Attack on the Western Canon”
Professor John Ellis has served on college faculties since 1963 and is now an emeritus professor at the University of California-Santa Cruz. He has witnessed enormous changes in higher education … Continue reading “A Scholar’s Lament”
Social justice education—which teaches young people to view the world through the lens of oppression and demands unquestioning conformity—pervades nearly every nook and cranny of higher education: the administration, general … Continue reading “Loosening Social Justice’s Iron Grip on Academia”
Editor’s note: This article is adapted from a December 6 speech at an event hosted by the National Association of Scholars and the Martin Center on social justice and identity … Continue reading “The Continual Creep of Social Justice into Higher Education”
SOLD OUT In partnership with the National Association of Scholars, the Martin Center will present “Leveling America: Social Justice and Identity in American Higher Education,” an afternoon-long program featuring speakers, … Continue reading “Leveling America: Social Justice and Identity in American Higher Education”
Many colleges assign “common readings” to incoming students as an intellectual experience outside the classroom to set the bar for the academic rigor that professors expect of students. This tradition … Continue reading “Common Reading Programs: Political Fluff for Freshmen”