Largely avoiding discussions of students’ academic freedom, the panel argues that, especially among politicized subjects, professors’ academic freedom is threatened by student evaluations, scarce tenure, and even their own professional code of ethics.
Monthly Archives For January 2008
Pleasure Now or Never
Art History Professor Christopher Reed offered his own unique conception of pleasure in the workplace by highlighting the social virtues of homosexual references in the television sitcom Will & Grace and a YouTube video titled “Shoes.”
Queen of Cuba Dethroned
A new book shows us that communist spies are not, as some professors would have us believe, a figment of our imagination.
Deconstructing Universal (Conservative?) Values
In this uncertain time of global conflict, some professors believe it is time to teach students to reevaluate and deconstruct America’s real enemies—conservatives, science, democracy, and capitalism.
Deconstructing Universal (Conservative?) Values
In this uncertain time of global conflict, some professors believe it is time to teach students to reevaluate and deconstruct America’s real enemies—conservatives, science, democracy, and capitalism.
A Genocidal Legacy
Human-rights activists would likely be displeased to hear that important massacres and purges may never make the history books as genocide because of political pressures during the 1948 U.N. Genocide Convention.
UC Quota Shell Game
The University of California is more ethnically obsessed than it was in 1996, when Californians voters passed Proposition 209, the law that bars the use of racial quotas in state education, employment and contracting.
Ivory Tower Criminal Court
Unfortunately, what comes out of academia does not stay there.
Total Recall
Arguably the most devastating anti-family bill ever passed in California, SB 777 requires all curricula–even that of private schools–to treat homosexuality and heterosexuality “equally.”
Green Card Graduation
In 1982, the Supreme Court decided that K-12 education could not be denied to illegal immigrants. Symbolically speaking, these children have now grown up and, twenty-five years later, the issue is whether illegal immigrants should be denied a college education at public community colleges and universities.
Book Review
Book Review: Is ‘The Dying Citizen’ a Prediction of America’s Future?
America’s ongoing and seemingly-constant crises have left Americans scrambling to find a sense of normalcy and safety. Just in time, to cut through the chaotic bombardment of conflicting messages and opinions while providing a voice…
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Ayn Rand Reconsidered
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