When Black Is Not Enough
Even before the rash of protests in the wake of the recent racial violence across the nation the volume of demands for more of what students and faculty call “diversity” ...
Thank Goodness For Financial Experts
According to an article on Inside Higher Ed this morning: “High levels of student debt are contributing to negative wealth — when a household’s debt is greater than its total ...
All Lives Don’t Matter at University of Houston
The Washington Post reports (as does the Chronicle of Higher Education this morning) that Rohini Sethi, vice president of student government at the University of Houston, was removed from her position after ...
NCAA Throws Rocks From Inside Glass House
In April, USA Today reports, the NCAA Board of Governors adopted a policy requiring cities hosting or bidding on NCAA championships, meetings, or conferences to ”demonstrate how they will provide an environment that ...
U-M Donor Retracts $3M Gift: Multicult Naming Guilt
In a multicultural man-bites-dog story, Mark Bernstein, the chairman of the University of Michigan Board of Regents, and his wife, Rachel Bendit, are withdrawing their previously announced gift of $3 ...
Meet That Quota, Redux!
In his recent post, “Meet That Quota!,” Roger Clegg criticized the quota-inducing qualities of the recent “Dear Colleague” letter on “gender equity” sent out by the Department of Education’s Office ...
Unusually Prescient Criticism Of Racial Preferences
A few days ago on The Heterodox Academy Jonathan Haidt discussed “The amazing 1969 prophecy that racial preferences would cause the exact grievances of protesters today.” Read it, and the ...
Why Wait? Criticism of a Commencement Speech Not Yet Given…
As an undergraduate at Stanford in the 1960s I was privileged to take a small class with then-visiting Sociology professor St. Clair Drake, co-author of the classic Black Metropolis. One ...
Should Yale Hire The “Most Diverse”?
Both Yale and Princeton, the Chronicle of Higher Education reports, have hired new diversity deans. At Yale, Kathryn Lofton, chair of the religious studies department, will “the inaugural deputy dean ...
‘Equity’ Indeed! The Pay of Chief Equity Officers
CBS News reports (HatTip to Instapundit):
Corporate chief executives have come under fire in recent years for their skyrocketing pay. But there’s a place that puts those executives to shame: academia.
College ...