Category Archives: colleges and universities

The President of Northwestern University is mad as hell at woke students, and he’s not going to take it anymore

October 20, 2020 – 9:30 am

I got hold of this email sent yesterday by the president of Northwestern University, a prestigious school just north of Chicago.  In the past few weeks, woke students have been disrupting the town and the campus, demanding the abolition of the University police force, and this is his response. It starts off, like many of […]

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Useless virtue-flaunting action of the month

October 15, 2020 – 12:00 pm

Clearly the humanities are more Woke than the sciences; I know that from seeing which professors and grad students sign various demands and petitions.  But among the humanities, English departments seem to take pride of place for Wokeness, as ours does (see here for a local example). I’m not sure why this is, but of […]

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U of C President clarifies and affirms University’s refusal to take official stands on political, ideological, and moral issues

October 6, 2020 – 9:45 am

For a while I’ve been dismayed by the posting of statement after woke statement on departmental websites of the University of Chicago, all espousing doctrines adhering to Critical Race Theory or the Black Lives Matter movement, and often castigating their own group for a past history of racism in a University department or school—a history […]

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College free speech rankings: best and worst (n.b.: U of C is number one)

September 29, 2020 – 1:00 pm

Over at RealClearEducation, we see the results of a new survey of free speech on campus, which ranks 55 American colleges from best to worst in their free-expression policies and atmosphere. The novel thing about this survey is that the rankings were the results of polling the students themselves—20,000 of them. The survey was sponsored […]

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An open letter to the University of Chicago’s English Department

September 21, 2020 – 9:00 am

There’s been considerable negative publicity about the University of Chicago English Department’s “woke” statement adhering to Critical Race Theory, and their concomitant decision to admit graduate students next year in only one area: Black Studies. In response, the English Department has engaged in somewhat mendacious behavior. Yesterday I found that once again they’d altered their […]

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Wesleyan University president purports to comport intellectual diversity with “hate speech” ban; the result is still censorship

September 20, 2020 – 9:45 am

A friend affiliated with Wesleyan University sent me the New York Times article below, saying that I should be aware of the school’s efforts to “encourage a diversity of opinion in public debates on campus while barring hate speech and so on.”  Intrigued but doubtful, I read the article by Wesleyan President Michael S. Roth, […]

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Alan Dershowitz, in Newsweek, decries the University of Chicago’s adherence to Groupthink

September 19, 2020 – 11:30 am

Say what you will about Alan Dershowitz, but in his new piece in Newsweek (below) he’s right—and by that I mean he agrees with me. Dershowitz’s article is about the University of Chicago, and in particular the English Department’s new Statement of RightThink, along with its announcement  that grad students in the next year’s class […]

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Ben Schwarz on the University of Chicago’s new grad-school admissions policy

September 18, 2020 – 12:15 pm

I’ve written several posts about the dissolution of The University of Chicago’s commitment to free expression, embodied in the Kalven Report‘s mandate that—except in exceptional circumstances involving University operation—our school should take no official stand on any issues of morality, ideology, or politics (see, for instance, here, here, and here). And up to now it […]

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Princeton hoist with its own petard: Admits systemic racism, investigated for it by the Department of Education, and then denies it

September 18, 2020 – 9:00 am

I have to say that I find this pretty amusing. After Princeton’s President (like officials of many other colleges) wrote a letter flagellating himself and his University for systemic racism, the U.S. Department of Education has begun investigating Princeton for violating Title IV of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The charge is taking federal […]

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More violations of my University’s principle of political neutrality

September 17, 2020 – 11:30 am

I hope you’ve kept up at least minimally with what I’ve written about the University of Chicago and the Kalven Report—the 1967 document that set the tone for University discourse by declaring that the school would remain neutral on all issues of morality, ideology, and politics, with a few rare exceptions having to do with […]

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