Interestingly, when academia tries to rebut claims of bias, they wind up buttressing them.
Faculty Lounge
Getting Tenure Hegemonically
Here’s a vignette that shows how an academic can get tenure, or at least how one well-placed one did.
UT-Austin Increases Border Traffic
But the Border Patrol probably won’t be involved.
More Staff, Fewer Teachers
Nearly half the states have more public school staff than they have teachers.
Ladies They Talk About
Two instructors from Colorado State University (CSU) taught a course in which they encouraged incarcerated women to express themselves, specifically at a local jail and “a teen girls’ group at a residential youth and family rehabilitation center.”
Catholic Bashing In Academia
For Lent, Catholics give something up. Perhaps academia could show some of the tolerance it gives itself credit for by easing up on the Catholic-bashing it engages in annually.
Fossil Fuel Divestment Fever
Youth, like age, hath its privileges, and one of them seems to be the right to not think too far ahead.
No Limit: Unintended Consequences
In the academic and political worlds in which our laws are incubated and passed, there is one statute scholars and politicos routinely ignore: the law of unintended consequences.
Pagan Invasion On Campus
The University of Missouri’s “Guide to Religion” includes nearly 10 Wiccan and Pagan observances that professors are asked to consider when scheduling homework or tests.
Race, Class & Gender
If you’re wondering why students who study U.S. History appear not to have learned a thing about history, there’s a reason.