ACTA president Anne D. Neal speaks at an AEI conference on the role of alumni and trustees.
Scrutiny of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in higher education has been increasing for months, with more opponents finding what...
Sometimes the stars seem to come into alignment. Just as I was getting ready to write a column (this column) on a new documentary about free speech and political correctness on campus, the film’s producer and director, Evan Coyne Maloney, made news of another, but related, kind. According to the New York Post of Oct. […]
At journalism school I flunked my class in “Trends: How to Identify Them, How to Invent Them.” So I’m not qualified to peg what follows as a genuine social or cultural trend. But it’s happened in four state legislatures already. And we can always hope. Most recently it’s been percolating in Missouri, where Representative Jane […]
Christian DeJohn returned from a National Guard tour in Bosnia only to fight his own war with academics at Temple University, who he says, have delayed approval of his master’s thesis because of political conflicts in the classroom. His case is just one in a national debate fueled by allegations that some liberal professors are […]
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