East Carolina University will hire a new administrator with the title Assistant to the Chancellor for Institutional Diversity. ECU already has in place such diversity offices as its Office of Intercultural Student Affairs and its Office of Institutional Equity,
Read the articleIt is well settled that the First Amendment fully protects the free speech rights of students, and the Supreme Court has emphasized that religious speech is entitled to the same protections.
Read the articleFired essentially for no other reason than acting on her conservative Republican beliefs in her free time, acclaimed sociologist Jean Cobbs has long been a dissident whose tribulations AIA has followed with concern.
Read the articleBarely two years after a federal judge ordered the school to revise its politically correct speech code, administrators at Shippensburg State University in Pennsylvania remain undaunted, constantly patrolling for insensitivity.
Read the articleA reader on Bob Parks’ Cockeyed Payout column: “An oasis of reason in a sea of hysteria.”
Read the articleBoutique academics at a recent conference on “neoliberalism” take on globalization and free markets.
Read the articleThe City of Boston will soon announce a settlement with the family of Victoria Snelgrove, the Emerson College student who was killed by a pepper pellet shot following the ALCS.
Read the articleRanked with Harvard and Yale as one of America’s most liberal law schools, Duke is embarrassed of producing a Republican President.
Read the articleDr. Farhat Haq’s joust with criminology professor Mike Adams from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington is amazingly ragged for a college professor who has been giving lectures for two decades.
Read the articleThe current generation of college-aged young adults—often called either Generation Y or the “Millennials”—lives in a culture of unprecedented choice and individualism.
Read the articleFor decades, higher education institutions have utilized racial preferences and quota programs, euphemistically called “affirmative action” in their admission policies. At least one member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights would like to see that practice come to an end.
Read the articleAt Bucknell University there are offices staffed by paid employees of the university who spend their time encouraging students to adopt their political views.
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