…trustees. Chancellors have considerable discretion in hiring faculty members and she used it to stop him from getting the position he thought he had bagged. Immediately, some of those who…
In 2017, the North Carolina legislature passed House Bill 527 (now State Law 2017-196) in order to foster free, open inquiry in the state’s colleges and universities. One of the…
…“Ideally, a liberal education produces persons who are open-minded and free from provincialism, dogma, preconception, and ideology; conscious of their opinions and judgments; reflective of their actions; and aware of…
…am happy if in this class period we can merely ferret out the many issues that the course will address: happiness, love, free will, evil, suffering. The course readings start…
…viewpoint diversity/free speech (while not unhelpful) does not get to the heart of the problem. Universities will tolerate such actions and work around them, dragging their feet to subvert them….
…and it is hard to predict which campuses will be transfigured next. A donor may actually like some of these changes, but the point is that endowment donors will have…
…challenge will be to harness the promising parts and fend off the rest. That will prove a daunting task. There is, though, cause to think things will progress. Increased computing…
…their teaching. That, however, is not freedom, but license. Even the free speech guaranteed by the Constitution has a few limitations, such as the prohibition of “fighting words” said directly…
…When, during the ’22-’23 hiring season, a psychology-department search committee attempted to fill an open faculty position, it ranked three finalists without regard for race. Subsequently, however, that ranking was…
…and bred!”), all the different extracurricular activities at UNC, and the opportunities we will have to study abroad. We walked around campus for two days learning about all that Carolina…