We hear a lot these days about the importance of diversity in ensuring that ideas are heard fairly. But the individuals who are most insistent about this are interested only in racial and sex...
At many colleges that allow alumni to elect some trustees, the races aren’t exactly exciting. An alumni committee typically nominates a slate of candidates who have worked their way up through the ranks, they issue statements...
Faced with steadily mounting evidence that the elite colleges really are politically one-sided and that students are feeling pressure to conform to their professors’ political views (see, for example, the American Council of Trustees...
Howard Kurtz’s article on left-leaning faculty [“College Faculties a Most Liberal Lot, Study Finds,” Style, March 29] makes it clear: University faculty are even more liberal than those he calls “conspiratorial conservatives” might have...
Freedom of speech and the idea of a free press are so intricately woven into America’s DNA that few of us give much thought to the origins of our freedoms or ponder an alternative...
At the University of North Carolina, three incoming freshmen sue over a reading assignment they say offends their Christian beliefs. In Colorado and Indiana, a national conservative group publicizes student allegations of liberal bias...
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