About two years ago, I spoke to a class of UNC-Chapel Hill students about free speech: what it is and why it is important. I covered some basic points such … Continue reading “Free Expression at UNC Schools: Freshman Orientation Edition”
To the editor: Paying college athletes? Aren’t they already paid? (This really should come as no surprise.) They’re paid in full-ride scholarships, tutoring, national & international travel, and free access … Continue reading “Letter to the Editor: Paying college athletes?”
College athletes’ rights, including their economic rights, have long been denied. American college sports have existed under an antiquated and oft-changing definition of amateurism that requires athletes to forfeit any … Continue reading “College Athletes’ Payment Rights: A Question of When and How, Not If”
(Editor’s note: this article was updated on August 25, 2021, to provide additional information and clarification about the microaggressions research done by Monnica Williams, Ph.D.) The need to combat “microaggressions” … Continue reading “How ‘Experts’ Abused Science to Saddle America with the Microaggression Mania”
With “cancel culture” running rampant on social media, in politics, and in the classroom, professors who put forth the effort to help students think critically and challenge their beliefs are … Continue reading “When Universities Don’t Step Up, Good Professors Are Forced to Step Down”
Michelle Goldberg complains in the pages of The New York Times about how it is the left wing that is currently a victim of cancel culture—thanks to the right, which is trying … Continue reading “The Backlash to Critical Race Theory Is on The Way”
In a new law that will change the direction of higher education in the United Kingdom, the British government is drafting the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill, which might … Continue reading “Did You Know? The UK Wants Free Speech on Campus”
Colleges and universities used to proclaim that their mission was to give students a broad education that would expand their intellectual vistas—one that would open their minds. Most still say … Continue reading “Higher Education Is Shutting Student Minds”
Most businesses and the general public had a brutal year in 2020—perhaps with the notable exceptions of Zoom and toilet paper manufacturers. Universities suffered as well, with enrollment drops and … Continue reading “The Trouble with Faculty Hiring Booms in a Politicized Time”
To the editor: I neither know Darrell Allison nor anything about his appointment as Chancellor at Fayetteville State University. But I also read that he is seeking to improve FSU’s … Continue reading “Letter to the Editor: The state should have a voice in who runs public universities”