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ACTA discussions
So where would you have a serious discussion about the future of academe, where you’d talk about a thoughtful core curriculum across the country, because you think everyone has a right to the intellectual tools of a good liberal education? You know, the stuff that shouldn’t be the exclusive privilege of the elite? Harvard’s faculty […]
In the "when will they learn?" department of academic freedom
Vandals ruined a run of a conservative student newspaper at the University of Georgia Tuesday. (Hat tip: Ralph Luker.) To whichever jerks did this: Great way to model respect for diversity, folks. Congratulations for advancing civil discourse. You’ve shown your clear moral superiority. Now, please don’t claim you’re speaking for me or others on the […]
Michael Bérubé in the NY Times
Michael Bérubé’s The Academic Blues is a succinct response to claims of academic bias and a must-read.
Peter Ratener, not the swiftest test item writer in the world
The math professor at Bellevue Community College is a fool at best to start out a multi-part question with the following: Condoleezza holds a watermelon just over the edge of roof of the 300-foot Federal Building, and tosses it up with a velocity of 20 feet per second…. When originally written in 2004, the exam […]
9/11 and academic freedom, the weird side
And now, just days after Brigham Young suspended physicist Steven E. Jones, there’s an article about pressure on the University of New Hampshire to fire William Woodward, who (like Jones and Kevin Barrett) is a member of Scholars For 9/11 Truth. Especially troubling is word that ACTA has called for an investigation into Woodward, presuming […]