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Virginia Association of Scholars Readings, Week of Dec. 26

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3 Princeton DEI staff members resign, alleging lack of support – The Daily Princetonian

It’s Time To Tell The Truth About Colonialism In Africa – The Federalist

I helped found Stonewall. But today I plead with every business and public body signed up to its Diversity Champions scheme to reconsider, writes SIMON FANSHAWE – The Daily Mail

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Virginia Association of Scholars Readings, Week of Dec. 12

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Leaders of Alumni Free Speech Alliance and PFS Participate in Second Annual Campus Free Speech Roundtable – Princetonians for Free Speech

In Defense of Arguing – American Institute for Economic Research

How to Respond When Teachers Refuse to Teach – American Enterprise Institute

New York City’s War on Meritocracy – City Journal

Standardized test scores and law school rankings – Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports

One million civil service days a year ‘wasted on equality and diversity training’ – The Telegraph UK

More than 1,000 professors sign on to ‘Stanford Academic Freedom Declaration’ – The College Fix

Does Diversity Training Work? Does Anyone Know? – The Volokh Conspiracy

OPINION Does diversity training work? We don’t know — and here is why. – The Washington Post

The Ongoing History Crisis – Project Muse

Scholars work at ‘Decolonizing Light’ to combat ‘colonialism in contemporary physics’ – The College Fix

The Sign in Lee Jussim’s Window – Minding the Campus

Florida’s public colleges and universities have to try to find new accreditors – WLRN News

Future Journalists Learn to Suppress Free Speech – City Journal

Journalists Against Free Speech – City Journal

Legal group scores win in fight against bias reporting systems – Campus Reform, A Project of the Leadership Institute

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Virginia Association of Scholars Readings, Week of Nov. 21

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Virginia’s Monuments War – City Journal

‘Immoral’: Texas A&M professor challenges faculty hiring program that excludes whites and Asians – The College Fix

Justice Alito slams colleges and law schools for failing to protect free speech – Campus Reform, A Project of the Leadership Institute

William MacAskill’s ineffective altruism – Arif Ahmed, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge via UnHerd

EXCLUSIVE: Conservative activists issued 2-year ban from public campus – Campus Reform, A Project of the Leadership Institute

The Perils of University Indigenization – Minding the Campus

Cornell University stands up against the woke mob – The Washington Examiner’s Restoring America

California’s perilous bid to censor your doctor’s advice – The New York Times

 

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Alumni Free Speech Alliance Readings, Week of Nov. 17

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Building official’s decision upheld rejecting W&L chapel wall to shield Lee statue – The Roanoke Times

Princeton’s Undergraduate Student Government (USG) declines to sponsor referendum on antisemitism – The Daily Princetonian

‘Dismiss 95 percent of the bureaucrats’: Harvey Silverglate on what he’d change at Harvard – The College Fix

Conference on Institutional Neutrality: Scholars Probe the Issues – Princetonians for Free Speech

A Time To Mourn – Bacon’s Rebellion

Interview with ACTA’s Michael Poliakoff and Steven McGuire – The Cornell Review Continue reading →

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Virginia Association of Scholars Readings, Week of Nov. 7

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Leaked Documents Outline DHS’s Plans to Police Disinformation – The Intercept

A Radically Different Model of American Education: UATX’s Jacob Howland Speaks to the PEP – The Dartmouth Review

Toss out abusive college administrators: Column – USA Today

A Lament for the Lost University – Law & Liberty

The Censoring of Science – The Daily Sceptic

Censorship and Suppression of Covid-19 Heterodoxy: Tactics and Counter-Tactics – Shir-Raz, Elisha, Martin, Ronel, & Guetzkow

Cancel culture at US universities – Noah Carl

More Colleges Offering Admission to Students Who Never Applied – Wall Street Journal Continue reading →

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Virginia Association of Scholars Readings, Week of Oct. 31

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‘Diversity of thought’ event lacked conservative views: report – William Biagini, Florida State University (thecollegefix.com)

Math Scores Dropped in Every State During Pandemic, Report Card Shows – The Wall Street Journal

Measuring Discrimination: Racial Preferences at Flagship Public Institutions – The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal

A Closed Discussion on Academic Freedom? – Inside Higher Ed

Permanent Fixes for a ‘Broken System’ – Inside Higher Ed

KU Law school says ADF discussion of the First Amendment is ‘hate speech’ – The Sentinel

Race on Campus – The Chronicle of Higher Education

Shoring Up Tenure, or Weakening It? – Inside Higher Ed

Faculty Wants Pensions Out of Fossil Fuels – Inside Higher Ed

Virginia Military Institute Went Woke, Enrollment Fell 25% – Daniel Greenfield

NAS President Peter Wood Addresses the Pending Racial Preferences Cases – National Association of Scholars

University doubles down on reporting system only weeks after legal firm issues demand letter – Campus Reform, A Project of the Leadership Institute

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