The job posting has been removed since the outcry, but really, University of Louisville? “The post … on HigherEdJobs mostly resembled a typical ad, encouraging applicants ‘with a Ph.D. in physics or a related area,…
Monthly Archives For December 2015
Fisher v. Texas, Take Two
At the Heritage Foundation on the anniversary of Pearl Harbor, two law professors gave a preview of the second Fisher v. Texas decision, which was again before the U.S. Supreme Court. Vanderbilt Law’s own James…
Half of Mizzou’s Faculty got Waivers on Minimum Teaching Requirements
So what do they do instead of teaching college students, which is a big part of the job?
Iowa President Makes a Gun Joke and Apologized to the Offended Staff Member
It was NOT the smartest thing to say: According to The Iowa City Press-Citizen, Harreld made what he later described as “an inappropriate off-the-cuff remark” during a December 9 meeting of the university’s Staff Council,…
Wisconsin Regents says NO to Safe Spaces
Good for them. Safe spaces are for wimps.
Artistic Freedom Well Spent
We have spared no shortage of blog space on our problems with George Washington University over the past three decades. Nonetheless, we found something worthwhile on their Foggy Bottom campus that all who are in…
Rachel Dolezal of the Race Hoax still Believes She’s Black
Huh? Via the College Fix: “Nothing about whiteness describes who I am,” she says. “For as long as I can remember, I saw myself as black.” Yet, in a seeming contradiction, Dolezal says she “doesn’t believe…
Free Speech is Less Safe on American Colleges
Great take by our friend George Leef. On public college and universities, the First Amendment applies, thus giving students, faculty members, and everyone else protection against official censorship or punishment for saying things that some…
Harvard: People Concerned about Syrian Refugees are Islamophobic
Oh yes, social justice in the form of placemats at Harvard University: Placemats recently distributed to students by an office at Harvard University appear to brand Americans worried about accepting thousands of refugees from Syria…
Satirist Gets Yale Students to Sign Petition to Ban Free Speech
We really have no hope for our future in America, do we?