Search Results for: “Chief Diversity Officer”

Oct 24, 2016 · Stephanie Keaveney

Will This New College Ranking System Upend the Status Quo?

…recommend the school to their peers; and the environment category measures the “diversity” of the student body. Some of these metrics—student to faculty ratio and instructional spending, for instance—are more…

Jul 11, 2025 · Adam Ellwanger

Debunking the “Teachers Who Look Like Them” Myth

…students are benefited when they are exposed to “diversity,” especially when figures of authority are in question. Understanding this contradiction shows why putting the “teachers who look like them” canard…

May 24, 2017 · Jesse Saffron

The Wisest of Counselors: The Western Canon and Those Who Would Defend It

…Book selection committees usually are stacked with individuals from campus diversity, sustainability, student affairs, and residential life offices. Those individuals tend to lack the background and expertise, and in some…

Oct 7, 2022 · Peter Wood

The Asinine Politics of the Marist Mindset List

…existence focused much of their efforts on children. Racial hysteria: That’s Mindset List topic #7, under the heading (of course) “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.” Here we read that “the Class…

Jul 7, 2011 · George Leef

Another Weak Argument for Affirmative Action

…good job of defending it, resorting to “the same tired arguments.” She doesn’t think that the standard “educational benefits” line is persuasive, for example. “Why, uniquely among ‘diversity’ factors like…

Jul 17, 2008 · George Leef

Giant of Ideas Threatens Small Minds

…who talk about “diversity” can’t tolerate it when real diversity of opinion comes to campus. Rather than engage the kind of neoliberal, market-oriented analysis for which Friedman was famous and…

Aug 22, 2014 · Steven Horwitz

A liberal education ought to help college students to “think slow”

…intellectual and theoretical perspectives. Intellectual diversity is the crucial ingredient that enables students to begin to get outside themselves and recognize the biases in their own thinking about the way…

Jul 31, 2024 · George Leef

Harvard’s Former President Responds to Attacks on Elite Colleges

…members prefer people who share their views and adamantly oppose allowing any hated “right-wingers” even to speak on campus, much less teach. That’s why they have taken to demanding “diversity…

May 2, 2025 · Greg R. Lawson

Ohio Embraces Student Success

…a price they can afford. Regrettably, many of the state’s schools have failed to meet these rudimentary goals. Despite paying lip service to the seemingly relevant notions of “diversity,” “equity,”…

Jul 22, 2021 · Sevan Gulleyan

Did You Know? The Negative Effects of Racial Preferences on Minority Students

…a chain reaction, resulting in a substantial credentials gap at nearly all selective schools. And according to Stephen Cole and Elinor Barber, authors of the book “Increasing Faculty Diversity: The…

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