Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on the Academe Blog. It’s praiseworthy that the University of Chicago has announced to its students a “commitment to freedom of inquiry and expression.” But there is a…
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America’s Higher Education as American Counterculture
A good read by Peter Lawler on higher education and its relationship to American counterculture.
UNC LGBTQ Student Center Director Leaves to Go to Duke in Protest of House Bill 2
To each their own, but it sounds like House Bill 2 is still riling up the vocal minority. The transgender assistant director of an LGBTQ student center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel…
Court Delays Obama’s Transgender Bathroom Rule for Public Schools
From the College Fix: A federal judge in Texas halted the Title IX guidance issued by the departments of Justice and Education this spring that said schools must let students use the sex-segregated facilities of their choice…
Debunking the “College Professors Work Too Much” Argument
Our friend George Leef debunks the college professor narrative that they work too much: The argument that the typical college professor is overworked, incidentally, runs contrary to what many others say. David C. Levy, a…
West Virginia University’s Title IX Office: Using Wrong Gender Pronoun is a Violation
Sounds a lot like Big Brother is now on college campuses: WVU’s Title IX office informs students that federal law — as interpreted by WVU — guarantees students “the right to be called by the name…
Cal-Berkeley Spent $200,000 on PR for Chancellor
Spending $200,000 just to get their chancellor (who is resigning, by the way) to get speaking opportunities at the Davos forum and TED Talks…seems a bit extravagant. Just two days after Chancellor Nicholas Dirks said…
Look for the Union Label
Teachers’ unions can now point to an academic study to defend themselves against the charge that they prevent the firing of bad teachers, but the study itself is more of a hypothetical defense against very…
Indiana’s Fraternities’ 4th Amendment Rights Could be at Risk Under New Policy
The U.S. Constitution was written the way it was for a reason: Update on a proposal that has just become explicit policy: Indiana University-Bloomington will indeed require its Greek organizations to accept searches without a warrant by campus…
Don’t Use the Word “Man,” Princeton HR says
Uh, what? This isn’t a joke, but is something that Princeton University’s human resources department decided to do: The Princeton University HR department has largely wiped the word “man” from its vocabulary. The relatively new…