The University of Texas at Austin seems to think so. “For example, UT has a Social Justice Institute, a ‘central component’ of the UT Community Engagement Center within the 94-person Department of Diversity and Community…
Perspectives
Deconstructing Liberty
Those collegiate who keep telling pollsters that the Bill of Rights is less important to them than their comfort may want to see how comfortable they would be in a nation, or continent, where leaders felt the same way.
Professor Thinks Climate Change May Eliminate Racism
A professor at Rice University wonders if climate change, more commonly known as global warming among non-Millennials, will eliminate racism across the world.
Texans Remember Alamo, Forget Hillary
A recommendation that the heroes of the Alamo not be described that way was sharply rejected by the Texas Education Commission but the first woman to get the Democratic nomination for president was not so fortunate.
Progressive Free Speech?
Free speech absolutists are getting nearly impossible to find on campuses, at least among the Left that dominates universities.
Reading Outside Your Comfort Zone
Reading alone is a lost art and reading outside your comfort zone is even rarer in an age of microaggressions and trigger warnings. Yet and still, an associate professor at John Brown University suggests we do just that.
Harvard Business School Applications Down
Sometimes what looks like bad news inside academe may actually be a good omen for the rest of us.
Social Media Undoes Left-Wing Profs
Aaron Barlow of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) argues that social media has been the undoing of pedagogues in America.
Remembering 9-11: Let’s Roll
Members of an earlier generation remember exactly where they were when President Kennedy was assassinated. For a later generation, it was 9-11.
College of the Ozarks Drops Nike Gear
A small, private Christian college in Point Lookout, Missouri made headlines this week after the global apparel company Nike cut an ad with controversial football athlete Colin Kaepernick.
Faculty Lounge
Black Lives Matter Exposed
Book Review
Fact-Checking History’s First Draft
Journalism, the old cliché goes, is the first draft of history. Unfortunately, it rarely gets through rewrites before it hits the classroom. Yesterday’s headlines often look a bit silly when viewed through a microfiche, and…
Coming to a university near you
Before you find him on offer as a university speaker or course, you may want to read the meticulously documented story of Cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal by former Accuracy in Academia executive director Dan Flynn.
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