June ‘23 Higher Ed Collection
Pentagon Aims to Stop China and Russia from Spying on Academia (Air & Space Forces, 7/5/23)
Professor Stands Up Against Penn State's Discrimination (FAIR Substack, 6/29/23)
Stanford Law School Promised Free Speech Training. It Delivered a Campus Joke. (Free Beacon, 6/28/23)
Panel recommends best practices for managing risk at foreign-funded cultural centers (Chronicle, 6/28/23)
This Professor Criticized Diversity Statements. Did It Cost Him a Job Offer? (Chronicle, 6/28/23); Also see John Sailer’s Analysis (6/27/23); Also see Jesse Singal’s piece: Academia Seems Much Better At Producing Derailing Tactics Than Actual Arguments- On the Yoel Inbar situation and the growing allergy to reasoned debate (Singal 6/30/23)
Yale's Ideological Echo Chamber- Even as the Yale administration remains unconcerned by a political imbalance in the faculty lounge, a growing portion of the university’s student body is showing that free speech matters. (RealClear Education, 6/27/23)
Where Does Your Department Stand on Abortion? Antiracism? Immigration? Programs are issuing statements on a host of political issues and that’s a mistake. (Chronicle 6/26/23)
Law, Betrayed- Identity’s triumph over argument in legal education undermines democracy. (City Journal, Spring 2023)
Universities Shouldn’t Be Ideological Churches by FAIR Advisor Robert P. George (Atlantic, 6/15/23)
The Indoctrination of the American Mind- New research shows that the ideological transformation of our schools is widespread—and should concern anyone who cares about open inquiry and free speech. (The Free Press, 6/22/23); 2022 Report on the Impact of Critical Social Justice Ideology on Education (Manhattan Institute)
Chicago Lives Up to the Principles- School administrators rebuffed law students outraged over my Journal contribution. (WSJ, 6/21/23)
FAIR Advisor Michael Shellenberger (6/8/23) “Stanford wants to ‘govern’ how we get information in order to save democracy. Naturally, they're calling their new censorship initiative, ‘Project Liberty.’ — watch for similar “pro-democracy” programs at universities
We should all be ashamed of what the Senior Survey shows—”The survey’s results are alarming and are a shameful reflection on the state of civil discourse and freedom of expression at Princeton” (Daily Princetonian 6/1/23); Survey
