North Carolina State University students need to be taught about how to be “inclusive,” according to the school’s chancellor and top administrators. Last June, NC State Chancellor Randy Woodson released … Continue reading “Diversity Training Comes to NC State University”
Over the past decade, American moral culture has changed. The evidence of those changes has been especially apparent on college campuses, where new concepts such as microaggressions, safe spaces, trigger … Continue reading “1776 Unites: An Alternative to Campus Victimhood Culture”
Higher ed leaders love committees and training sessions. The technocratic mind that rules campus sees a problem and usually decides that the solution is more resources and education. Once the … Continue reading “Why Do UNC Schools Spend Money on Diversity Training That Doesn’t Work?”
In 2015, Greg Lukianoff (president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education) and Jonathan Haidt (professor of ethical leadership at New York University’s Stern School of Business) wrote an … Continue reading “Universities and the ‘Coddling’ of the American Mind”
This academic year has been punctuated by a series of high-profile campus protests. Many student grievances have, as in previous years, centered on claims of racial injustice. If next academic … Continue reading “How Colleges Themselves Bring About Racial Protests”
The term “microaggression” was coined in 1970 by Harvard professor Chester Pierce, who declared that “Every Black must recognize the offensive mechanisms used by the collective White society, usually by … Continue reading “Microaggressions Put Under the Scholarly Microscope”
At the school where I taught for almost 35 years, the University of Wisconsin—Madison, campus leaders continue their rush to respond to the BlackOut demands put forth by black student … Continue reading “New Diversity Initiatives Hurt the University of Wisconsin’s Campus Climate”
Last month, PEN America, the U.S. branch of an international organization, published a strong defense of free speech on college campuses. The nearly century-old group stands for the idea that … Continue reading “Will the Surge of Support for Free Speech on Campus Do Any Good?”
“And why do we fall, Bruce? So we can learn to pick ourselves up.” – Thomas Wayne, Batman Begins Administrators at the University of Florida recently notified students that a 24-hour … Continue reading “Colleges Are Promoting Psychological Frailty and We Should All Be Concerned”