Search Results for: “Chief Diversity Officer”

Dec 28, 2022 · Richard K. Vedder

Wanted: A Successful Collegiate Rent-Seeker

…from his position as chief lobbyist at the American Council of Education (ACE). Terry is a master at the rent-seeking craft, persuasive in cajoling legislators into approving laws that lead…

Jun 7, 2019 · Daniel Klein

A Witch Hunt Comes for a Nonconformist Professor

…professor of economics and JIN Chair at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, where he leads a program in Adam Smith. He is chief editor of Econ Journal Watch….

Oct 17, 2013 · Francis DeLuca and Jane S. Shaw

Academic Freedom or Shrill Partisanship?

…at the time and George received $168,000 in 2009. Each of them was to teach one class a semester. (Editor’s note: George is now chief of staff for the UNC…

Nov 8, 2017 · George Leef

Liberal Arts Education Is Not (Necessarily) a Waste of Time

…say they prize the abilities that liberal arts majors have, their subordinates don’t. Interviewed by Inside Higher Ed about his book, Stross said, “Chief executives tend to advocate for hiring…

Mar 15, 2012 · Jenna A. Robinson

A Tournament of Efficiency

…college completion database, and we’re using two of its measurements to determine which colleges produce graduates effectively at low cost. The chief measure is (in the first set of brackets…

Oct 27, 2013 · Champion Mitchell

What Do Employers Want?

…many forms is essential to having upward mobility in employment. However, in a changed world, those things alone do not maximize opportunity. On a personal note, my brother, retired Chief…

May 23, 2025 · George Leef

Universities’ Stalinesque Procedures Are Silencing Unpopular Professors

…outsiders with political pull. Wolfinger has sought out professors who have suffered through groundless, one-sided investigations over trivial or nonexistent affronts to students. During Stalin’s reign, his chief henchman, Lavrentiy…

Sep 21, 2007 · Jane S. Shaw

One-Stop College Shopping (Sort of)

…acknowledges that the U-Can initiative stems partly from government pressure. But Hope Williams, president of an equivalent state organization, North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities, says that the chief factor…

Sep 25, 2007 · Jay Schalin

Marx, Mao, and Mischief at UNC

…Issues” served as the chief editors of the journal, including Harry Magdoff. Magdoff openly declared the publication’s Maoist tendencies in an interview in the May 1999 issue: “Oh, there was…

Apr 14, 2009 · George Leef

Only Rubber-Stamps and Jellyfish Need Apply

…history. It figures in one of Chief Justice Marshall’s most famous cases, Dartmouth College v. Woodward, where the Court rebuffed an effort by the State of New Hampshire to exert…

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