The biggest problem on college campuses today is that many college professors are censoring conservative and even moderate students in the classroom. The abuse that many conservative students are taking from liberal professors is getting out of hand.
Once again, more exciting student news from Columbia! A report from The Spectator, “Allies Aim to Foster Campus Dialogue,” talks about a discussion group organized on campus for different student groups to build bridges of understanding with each other.
The Crimson reports that remarks made by Harvard President Larry Summers in a September 2004 conference on Native American studies has resurfaced as scholars now report that they were offended, insulted, and appalled by his speech.
Graduate student employees at Columbia University and Yale University started a week-long strike yesterday, demanding that the universities’ administrations recognize the groups as workers unions.
As the AAUP consistently argues that the faculty hiring process is ideologically neutral, anecdotal evidence of viewpoint discrimination keeps rolling in.
Joseph Massad wrote a “Response to the Ad Hoc Grievance Committee Report“ last week to defend himself and to analyze the flaws of Columbia University’s Ad Hoc Grievance Committee Report.
An article by Steven Roy Goodman in Sunday’s Washington Post suggests that college applicants are becoming dissatisfied with the increasingly politicized atmosphere on today’s campuses.
The key to having a fulfilling classroom experience is often not content itself, but how the content is conveyed, shaped, absorbed, challenged, and made into shared knowledge by all members of the class.
Dartmouth says “free speech does not mean you’re free from criticism,” but its missing policy still asserts the college “has no patience with or tolerance for bigotry or demeaning behavior.” So which standard applies?
