April ‘23 Higher Ed Collection
These universities are pushing back on censorious students. Finally. Cornell, Penn State, Vanderbilt, Harvard, Stanford (Washington Post, 4/29/23)
Equity and the Race to the Bottom (RealClear Education, 4/28/23)— also see US DOE’s 2022 Agency Equity Plan related to Executive Order 13985
The Belmont Approach- In Nashville, a fast-growing university combines liberal arts education (including religion) with an emphasis on post-graduate employment—and prizes teaching quality over research (City Journal, 4/24/23)
Fear of a Liberal Arts Education- The college where I teach, like so many others around the country, seems to want students to be informers instead of free thinkers. (City Journal, 4/20/23)
Justitia opens first U.S. office at Vanderbilt, expands The Future of Free Speech project (The Future of Free Speech Project, 4/17/23)
Cornell Vows Free Expression–Themed Academic Year by Emma Camp (Reason, 4/14/23); In Wake of National Backlash, Pollack Announces Year of Free Speech (Cornell Review, 4/17/23); Cornell Chronicle Free Speech Year Announcement (4/14/23): Pollack’s Letter
The Moral Center Is Fighting Back on Elite College Campuses [Stanford, Cornell, Harvard, Vanderbilt, UChicago] by David French ( (NYT, 4/14/23)
Texas Bar Application Adds Questions About 'Incivility' and Free Speech in Wake of Stanford Law School Fracas (Free Beacon, 4/14/23)
College campus hecklers, your disruptions don’t count as free speech by FIRE EVP Nico Perrino (LA Times, 4/14/23)
Stanford Law Dean Has the Right Ideas But Needs to Do More (RealClear Education, 4/13/23)
Should College Come With Trigger Warnings? At Cornell, It’s a ‘Hard No.’ - When the student assembly voted to require faculty to alert students to upsetting educational materials, administrators pushed back. (NYT, 4/12/23
What’s Wrong at Stanford? by HBS Alum and Stanford professor Joel Peterson (Stanford Review, 4/10/23)
At Stanford Law School, the Dean Takes a Stand for Free Speech. Will It Work? - After a student protest, Jenny S. Martinez wrote a much-praised memo defending academic freedom. But that protest shows how complicated protecting free speech can be. (NYT, 4//8/23)
There is No Free Speech "Crisis" on Campus: The Trial of [UPenn’s] Amy Wax featuring FAIR Advisor Glenn Lowry (documentary, 4/6/23)
The Stanford Review Goes to Washington: My Testimony Before Congress— Hearing on. free speech on college campuses (Stanford Review, 4/5/23)
Cornell’s Academic Freedom Test-Trigger warning: Students will have to hear new ideas. (WSJ 4/4/23)
Ideological Signaling Has No Role in Research: Journals have begun asking for ‘positionality statements.’ That’s a mistake. (Chronicle, 4/4/23)
With some of my fellow Stanford Law students, there’s no room for argument (Washington Post 4/3/23)
