A FIRE friend replied to Greg’s post yesterday that had made the point that some of the disparity between liberals and conservatives in American faculties could be due to viewpoint discrimination.
Columnist Paul Krugman has written an interesting column (registration required) addressing the recent study that shows dramatically higher proportions of liberals in university faculty than conservatives.
It’s “déjà vu all over again,” this time at Northeastern Illinois University, where administrators have threatened to punish the College Republicans if they hold an “affirmative action bake sale” satirical protest.
Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU) has warned the members of the College Republicans that both the students and the group will be punished if they hold a campus protest against affirmative action.
In the March 18, 2005, issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education, Naomi Schaefer Riley, author of God on the Quad: How Religious Colleges and the Missionary Generation Are Changing America, published the interesting and insightful piece “Conservatives, Too, Are Politicizing Campuses”
The always-vigilant Student Press Law Center reports that students at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles confessed to stealing and destroying approximately 4,000 copies of the student newspaper.
My friend K. C. Johnson, a professor at Brooklyn College, has posted an interesting discussion of our analysis of the University of Colorado’s report on Ward Churchill
