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Indoctrinate U – No screenings
So I went to the Indoctrinate U website on screening locations and dates this morning and … there’s nothing there yet.
Freakonomics author fails history of econ 101
Steven D. Levitt gets an “F” for understanding the history of his own discipline in his blog entry Let’s just get rid of tenure (including mine). He writes, The idea that tenure protects scholars who are doing politically unpopular work strikes me as ludicrous. While I can imagine a situation where this issue might rarely […]
Arizona legislators want historians to stop talking about Brown v. Board of Education
John Wilson points out the obvious flaws in Arizona SB 1612, the latest attempt to channel David Horowitz’s idiocy. To wit, the proposed 15-511(D)(3) Arizona Statutes would be created, prohibiting Arizona faculty from being able to … Endorse, support or oppose any pending or proposed litigation in a local, state or federal court or endorse, support […]
Delighted at Drew’s destiny
I’m one of the many people who has crossed paths with Drew Gilpin Faust over the years, and while Harvard is only one university, I’m very happy that Faust got picked as president. I never had a class with her when I was in grad school at Penn, but she was well-known for being serious […]
Texas Governor to Faculty at UT-Pan American: You Suck
Well, that’s probably not the explicit intention of Governor Rick Perry when he released his plan to link multiple-choice exams to higher-ed funding increases, but I think the analysis described in the article is dead on: Other critics said that the system was set up in a way that would reward places like the University of Texas […]