Another awful affirmative action ruling could send the issue back to the Supreme Court.
Another awful affirmative action ruling could send the issue back to the Supreme Court.
How the Naval Academy Achieves “Diversity”
Jul 27, 2009 ·
George Leef
A professor doesn’t agree that it should be the top priority.
Affirmative Action, the Stealth Version
Feb 8, 2009 ·
Jay Schalin
The University of California’s new admissions policies are an end-run around the state’s race-blind laws.
Connerly says it is time for America to be colorblind when it comes to race
Oct 18, 2006 ·
Shannon Blosser
RALEIGH – As a member of the University of California Board of Regents, Ward Connerly experienced pressure to increase diversity on the campuses of the university system. After a 12-year term that ended in 2005, he still doesn’t know what the system was seeking.
“There was a lot of mindless blather about celebrating diversity,” Connerly said about his period on the board. “When I left, I didn’t know more about diversity. I asked a lot of questions. I could never get an answer that made sense to me.”
Connerly was the keynote speaker at the recent Pope Center Conference on “Diversity: How Much and What Kinds Do Universities Need?” held in Raleigh at the Brownstone Inn. As a regent, Connerly successfully fought for the elimination of race-based admission practices at the University of California. He also led a successful statewide campaign in 1996 to adopt Proposition 209, which prevented the state government from giving preferential treatment based on race. Today he is supporting a similar initiative in Michigan.
Declining by Degrees: Higher Education at Risk
Jan 25, 2006 ·
George Leef
Declining by Degrees: Higher Education at Risk Edited by Richard H. Hersh and John Merrow Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, 244 pages, $24.95 Books critical of higher education in America used to … Continue reading “Declining by Degrees: Higher Education at Risk”
James Moeser’s very bad idea
Sep 3, 2004 ·
Jon Sanders
RALEIGH – By now it is well known that the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill made national headlines again for something that, depending upon whom you ask, demonstrates its animus against Christian groups or its passion for the principles of diversity. Specifically, UNC-CH is being sued by a Christian fraternity, Alpha Iota Omega, for officially derecognizing the group because the group wouldn’t sign a “nondiscrimination” pledge.
The ‘New Age’ university: at odds with American core principles
Jan 14, 2004 ·
Martin Center Staff
The last third of the twentieth century witnessed the rise and triumph of the post-modern or, better yet, the “New Age University,” whose core mission involves bringing America into a new age based on substantially altered principles and social forms.
Modest proposals from NCSU profs to work diversity into technical courses
Oct 31, 2003 ·
Jon Sanders
North Carolina State University has a new “diversity czar.” This new czar “said professors should integrate diversity into the classroom of every discipline, no matter how technical.”
Harmony Remains Elusive, But N.C. State Still Celebrates
Aug 2, 2003 ·
Jon Sanders
The Division of Student Affairs at North Carolina State University will be “Celebrating Race and Ethnicity” this semester. Really. It has even developed a full slate of programs by which to celebrate these all-important nouns.
‘Critical thinking’ often means not questioning your professors
Jun 26, 2003 ·
Jon Sanders
Next to “diversity,” used as a synonym for discrimination by race, a favorite euphemism at universities today is “critical thinking.” The usual occasions for its use, however, are rather ironic — to stymie rather than stimulate critical thinking.