Timeline of events — N.C. State vs. Robert Boren
A list of the major events of Robert Boren’s battle with North Carolina State University.
Student grievance terribly mishandled at N.C. State
When the 2001 spring semester began at North Carolina State University, Robert Boren was just a student looking forward to beginning his pursuit of a masters in education counseling. Little did Boren know, however, that one interaction with a professor would lead his grades being altered on his transcript, his chances at graduate education crippled, his pleas for answers about those being ignored, and his being threatened with arrest for trespassing.
What the [heck] class do you watch anti-war music videos in?
Feb 4, 2005 ·
Jon Sanders
Critics of higher education often write about leftist bias in the classroom, barely literate students who somehow gain admission, dumbing down of course content, and academically disengaged students. Sometimes, however, those problems write themselves.
Alarm bells ring: Horowitz is coming! Horowitz is coming!
Oct 20, 2004 ·
Jon Sanders
An e-mail sent to faculty at North Carolina State warned against the Pope Center’s upcoming conference on academic freedom, because speaker David Horowitz’s “Academic Bill of Rights” contains “carefully chosen language” that “does not fully expose the agenda behind it.” Fortunately for N.C. State, the professor behind the e-mail did know “the real agenda — imposing political litmus tests on course content.” Ye cats!
Keeping Us Real: Ludacris Doesn’t Belong at N.C. State
Sep 20, 2004 ·
Martin Center Staff
Ludacris does not represent N.C. State, or what N.C. State supposedly stands for, and the university shouldn’t associate itself with him, even by giving him a stage and cutting him a check.
‘Price creep’ on chancellor pay extends from California to Carolina
May 20, 2004 ·
Jon Sanders
This spring Chancellor Marye Anne Fox surprised folks at North Carolina State University and the UNC system when she announced that she had accepted the chancellorship at the University of California at San Diego. It didn’t take long, however, for people at UNC to find an old foe to blame for Fox’s departure: low pay.
Modest proposals from NCSU profs to work diversity into technical courses
Oct 31, 2003 ·
Jon Sanders
North Carolina State University has a new “diversity czar.” This new czar “said professors should integrate diversity into the classroom of every discipline, no matter how technical.”
Online sports news site sues N.C. State, UNC for access
May 16, 2003 ·
Chad Adams
The latest court case brought about by the North Carolina Chapter of the Institute for Justice involves two cherished traditions in the state, freedom and sports. It also concerns a rapidly evolving form of journalism, online news media.
Campus divestiture movements diverge on targets
Mar 21, 2003 ·
Jon Sanders
Movements are underway on college campuses nationwide to cause them to “divest” in holdings that support some cause promoters find odious. The campaigns hearken back to those in the 1980s where colleges refused to do business with South Africa because of its policy of apartheid. The most well-known current campaign is the one seeking universities to divest in Israel, but there is another campaign underway to have universities divest in terror.
The latest dip in the roller-coaster ride of N.C. State’s library improvements
Sep 27, 2002 ·
Jon Sanders
Hours and services will be restored to D.H. Hill Library on the campus of North Carolina State University, school officials have announced. Public pressure, student activism, work between library officials and the provost’s office, and the state legislature’s joint conference committee budget report all contributed to a restoration of library services, which will be effective Oct. 16.