Although two-thirds of colleges and universities have speech codes, administrators reveal their biases in enforcing them.
Articles By: Malcolm A. Kline
North Carolina’s Callow Core
‘Twas a time when young men and women graduated from the readin’, writin’ and ‘rithmetic of high school to the Great Works that awaited them in college, but what awaits today’s high school graduates?
Cascading Colleges, Upended Universities
Author Jim Nelson Black undertook an investigation of the politically correct, but factually less so, biases on campus today and published his research in the book Freefall of the American University.
Another Poet For Peace
When English professor Clifton Snider assigns his class an argument paper, he already knows the side of the question that he wants to hear.
College Democrats On Steroids
Metaphorically speaking, that is. Nationwide, partisan types on campus are going into overdrive on behalf of the presidential campaign, sometimes causing fistfights—and that’s just the faculty.
Exam Angst
From kindergarten to college, no one hates tests more than the students forced to take them, with the possible exception of the schools forced to administer them.
Fundamentals of Brainwashing
When psychologist Denis Nissim-Sabat takes his political positions into the classroom, he threatens to turn the science of the mind into the control of the thought.
Fahrenheit 9-11 Torpedoed
The withdrawal of George Mason University’s (GMU) speaking invitation to controversial filmmaker Michael Moore stands out in a school year in which the presidential election gives college professors and administrators the chance to vividly display their partisan biases.
Barely Civil Rights At UNC And Beyond
When a college professor upbraided a student in an e-mail to the class over that student’s refusal to accept homosexuality in a discussion centered around that topic, the instructor set off a chain reaction that led to a federal investigation.
(X) Free Speech (X)
In this day and age, it is interesting to see what type of free speech that college and universities allow. A survey of some recent cases suggests that they find political statements risky, particularly conservative ones, but pornography fair game.