Search Results for: “Chief Diversity Officer”

Oct 25, 2023 · Lyell Asher

No, Vanderbilt Isn’t Governed By “Principled Neutrality”

…hands of the institution will continue unabated. Take Vanderbilt’s office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) for example. To be sure, the EDI mission statement claims to promote only what…

Dec 23, 2022 · Jenna A. Robinson

10 Books We Want Under the Tree in 2022

…purpose of justice in culturally diverse societies. Building upon the work of a diversity of theorists, this book demonstrates that there is a distinct “epistemic” tradition of liberalism that can…

Sep 19, 2016 · Kelly Markson

A Grassroots Effort Is Changing College Instruction for the Better

…1. Teachers learn best from each other. 2. There is power in diversity; the more diversity, the richer the outcome. Here, “diversity” refers to teaching discipline. Participants are put into…

May 13, 2014 · Jay Schalin

Too General, Not Enough Education

…writing course. Furthermore, the program almost seems to deny the concept of core knowledge, instead replacing it with core “sentiments” suggesting that diversity and environmentalism are good. This is accomplished…

Jul 8, 2020 · Jenna A. Robinson

The Breakdown of American Education and the Hopes for Change

…viewpoint diversity on campus is a practical approach to ensuring that students learn at least some of the aforementioned virtues. George offers excellent examples from his own experience of ways…

Jan 31, 2022 · Jenna A. Robinson

The UNC Alumni Free Speech Alliance: A Conversation with a Founding Member

…the University of Virginia, and Washington & Lee have decided to unite around the principles of free speech, academic freedom, and viewpoint diversity. These alumni groups aren’t working in isolation,…

Mar 8, 2024 · Mariusz Ozminkowski

On “Cultural Taxation”

…what seemed like just another grievance into an opportunity to promote a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) agenda. What begins as a crackpot idea often finds its way into university…

Oct 26, 2023 · Harrington Shaw

The State of Legacy Admissions

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to forbid racial admissions preferences in SFFA v. Harvard and UNC, collegiate diversity proponents have taken aim at other preference regimes thought…

Jul 31, 2020 · Walt Gardner

UCLA’s Discrimination Office Targeting Professor Threatens Academic Freedom

…be entirely independent of all political or sectarian influence and kept free therefrom.” If diversity of thought is indeed a goal, then why is William Peris, the political science lecturer…

Nov 26, 2018 · Shannon Watkins

A Final Conversation with Margaret Spellings

…to do a better job of heartening that balance—I don’t think we have enough of it; we need to work on it. We talk about diversity: diversity of thought, diversity…

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