Peter Bonilla writes for the Martin Center about potential threats to academic freedom in the college syllabus. The syllabus is such a basic document that most of us tend not…
Stephen Gavazzi and Gordon Gee explain in a Washington Examiner column why public universities need to lead the way in promoting free speech and reliance on scientific fact. As our…
James Piereson and Naomi Schaefer Riley have nice things to say about Duke University in a co-authored City Journal column. For incoming freshmen at Duke next fall, it will be…
Katherine Timpf of National Review Online details the latest example of college campus silliness, courtesy of an Atlantic Coast Conference school. Georgia Tech’s student government has released a two-page “inclusivity…
The Martin Center for Academic Renewal highlights Stanley Kurtz‘s article on new proposals for protecting speech on college campuses. Between the rise of safe spaces, trigger warnings, speaker disinvitations, and…
Walter Williams‘ latest column at Human Events highlights wildly contrasting approaches to academic philosophy at some leading American universities. The University of Chicago’s president, Dr. Robert J. Zimmer, wrote a…
At the Marginal Revolution blog, Alex Tabarrok provides an excerpt from a letter that the University of Chicago recently sent to incoming freshman: Earning a place in our community of scholars is no…
Victor Davis Hanson devotes his latest National Review Online column to longstanding problems plaguing higher education in the United States. What do campus microaggressions, safe spaces, trigger warnings, speech codes,…
After earning media attention through a Facebook post on the subject, Duke freshman Brian Grasso elaborates in the Washington Post on why he opted not to read this summer’s common reading selection. Along…
Iconic children’s book author Judy Blume has nothing good to say about “trigger warnings,” as TIME magazine discovered this week. You’ve been very active in fighting against censorship. Have you…
Those of you who scratch your head when you hear about “trigger warnings” for college students exposed to uncomfortable ideas might find some interesting nuggets in the following National Review…
Count Rich Lowry of National Review among those who have substantial concerns about the use of “trigger warnings” to limit college students’ exposure to certain types of reading material. He…