Open Inquiry and Viewpoint Diversity at NC State
NC State professor Andrew Taylor discusses his work as the director of the Free & Open Societies Project.
Hillsdale College’s Core Curriculum: A Discussion with Dr. David Whalen
Hillsdale College’s Associate Vice President for Curriculum discusses the college’s core curriculum and its emphasis on the Great Books.
Blueprint for Reform: General Education
The content of student learning heavily influences the kinds of thinkers and citizens graduates will become. The surest way to improve the quality of education for the greatest number of students is through general education.
The Martin Center Interviews Carolina’s AI Experts
The Martin Center spoke with Daniel Anderson, director of the Carolina Digital Humanities and of the digital innovation lab, and Dayna Durbin, undergraduate teaching and learning librarian, to discuss their efforts to increase AI literacy.
Standardized Tests vs GPA- Which is the better predictor of success?
Undergrad Enrollment is on the Rise
Rediscovering Western Civilization
Stanley Kurtz, senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, joined the Martin Center to discuss why the study of Western Civilization has nearly disappeared from higher education and how academia’s abandonment of the West is directly connected to the resurgence of anti-Semitism and protests on college campuses today.
Do Undergrads Care About Cost?
A Critique of Anti-Racism in Rhetoric and Composition – Education Book Discussion
On Tuesday, May 7th, the Martin Center welcomed Erec Smith for a discussion of his book, A Critique of Anti-Racism in Rhetoric and Composition: The Semblance of Empowerment.
About the book:
A Critique of Anti-racism in Rhetoric and Composition: The Semblance of Empowerment critiques current antiracist ideology in rhetoric and composition, arguing that it inadvertently promotes a deficit-model of empowerment for both students and scholars. Erec Smith claims that empowerment theory—which promotes individual, communal, and strategic efficacy—is missing from most antiracist initiatives, which instead often abide by what Smith refers to as a “primacy of identity”: an over-reliance on identity, particularly a victimized identity, to establish ethos.
About the author:
Erec Smith is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric at York College of Pennsylvania, and his primary work focuses on the rhetorics of anti-racist activism, theory, and pedagogy. He is the president of the Foundation for Free Black Thought. In addition to A Critique of Anti-Racism in Rhetoric and Composition, Smith has also published The Lure of Disempowerment: Reclaiming Agency in the Age of CRT (2022).
DEI is Expensive
