“Race preferences are divisive and demoralizing,” says writer La Shawn Barber. “They cause self-doubt. They cause others to doubt black achievement.”
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At War, With America
Universities nationwide and the State Department, seemingly unrelated institutions, have more in common than one might think.
Chomsky: Scholar or Sap?
When the scholars you look up to need to do some remedial thinking, you may need to look elsewhere for your mentors.
Academic Bill of Rights Wronged
When the Ivory Tower attacks something such as the Academic Bill of Rights that author David Horowitz is promoting, it shows, by its very opposition, the need for such a restraint.
School of Hard Knocks
Officials at Barber-Scotia College sent out letters to roughly 30 students who planned to graduate to inform them that the school awarded them too many “life experiences” credits and that they would have to take some courses in order to receive a diploma.
Academic Disabilities
Some professors not only have erroneous knowledge of their own subjects but also feel obligated to preach about that which they do not know.
Academia Nuts
If you had any doubts that higher education in America today is modeled more along the lines of Stalinist techniques than the Socratic method, you won’t after reading Ben Shapiro’s Brainwashed.
Central Connecticut Counterculture
With its dearth of intellectual diversity and its intolerance of dissent, CCSU often seems disturbingly similar to the CCCP, according to one heterodox professor.
The Abuse of the Politically Incorrect: Academia and Beyond
A philosophy scholar looks at the current state of academia and offers some suggestions for battling PC orthodoxy.
Civil Rights for the Politically Correct
Jean Cobbs’ political affiliation has made her a marked woman at Virginia State University, the historically black school where she has served on the faculty since 1971.