March ‘23 Higher Ed Collection
2022 Campus Expression Survey Report (Heterodox Academy, May 2023)— Findings: 1: Students’ Reluctance to Discuss Controversial Topics Remains High But Shows Signs of Improvement; Students’ Reluctance Associated Primarily with Fear of Negative Social Consequences from Peers; 3: High Peer Interaction Associated with Greater Expression Among Students; 4: Campus Culture Needs Continued Improvement to Foster Viewpoint Diversity.
Is Campus Free Speech in Crisis? A Congressional Hearing Grapples With a Familiar Question. (Chronicle, 3/29/23)
DEI at Law Schools Could Bring Down America (WSJ, 3/28/23)
Free Speech on College Campuses with Dr. Amna Khalid (Roots of Reality podcast, 3/28/23)
China to slash foreign researchers’ access to academic database (Financial Times, 3/28/23)
Employers Need to Put the Squeeze on Woke Intolerance- Young people like the Stanford students who heckled Kyle Duncan should be unemployable. (WSJ, 3/28/23)
GMU President’s Letter [on free speech]: What it means to be a Patriot (3/27/23)
You Can’t Cancel Me, I Quit (WSJ, 3/26/23)
"We Want You to Be Less Free" (Symposium conversation with David French, 3/20/23)
Stanford Law School Shout-Down (more under April ‘23 collection): Fifth circuit judge Kyle Duncan is calling on Stanford to axe DEI dean Tirien Steinbach (Free Beacon, 3/10/23), Stanford Apology (Stanford President and Stanford Law Dean, 3/10/23), Fire Tirien Steinbach (Stanford Review, 3/11/23); Should the Names of Stanford Student Disrupters Be Published? (by HLS’s Alan Dershowitz, 3/13/23), Student Activists Target Stanford Law School Dean in Revolt Over Her Apology (Free Beacon, 3/14/12); Steinbach’s Premeditated Shutdown: New Revelations About SLS Event Show Collusion (Stanford Review, 3/15/23); Stanford Law radicals want more censorship (HLS’s Alan Dershowitz, 3/15/23); How to stop law students from blocking free speech (by Charles Limpson AM 74 PHD 76, Spectator, 3/16/23); College administrators cannot promote their own politics (by Samuel Abrams AM 07 PHD 10, Washington Examiner, 3/16/23); My Struggle Session at Stanford Law School* (WSJ, 3/17/23); The Tyranny of the DEI Bureaucracy (WSJ, 3/17/23), Stanford Law’s Diversity Dean Is ‘on Leave’ as Controversy Boils Over a Disrupted Speech (Chronicle, 3/22/23); Dean Stanford Law Statement* (Stanford, 3/22/23; Stanford Law Disruptions Were Orchestrated by the National Lawyers Guild (with Addendum) (Alan Dershowitz Substack, 3/23/23), Diversity and Free Speech Can Coexist at Stanford (WSJ, 3/23/23), A Shoutdown at Stanford (Persuasion, 3/24/23)
DEI Is Dying On College Campuses. Or Is It? Students Weigh In (WSJ, 3/14/23)
Make the colleges pay (Spectator, 3/12/23)- misplaced blame for student debt crisis
Lawmakers Expand Their Assault on Colleges’ DEI Efforts (Chronicle, 3/9/23)
Legislators urge Education Department to expand race, legacy data in admissions (Higher Ed Dive, 3/8/23)
Woke word-policing is now beyond satire * (Washington Post, 3/8/23)
Diversity Statements Are Under Fire. Here’s What They Are and How They’re Used. (Chronicle Higher Ed, 3/7/23)
Diversity statements are an imposition on academic freedom* (by Samuel Abrams AM 07 PHD 10‘, Times Higher Ed, 3/6/23)
Some brief thoughts from MIT President Sally Kornbluth (3/5/23)—a video message on freedom of expression
College of the Future: The University of Austin (UATX) is happening—and it will help rescue American higher education (City Journal, 3/4/23)
Apathy Descends on Stanford; Stanford’s Search for Meaning * (Stanford Review, 3/2/23)
Columbia becomes first Ivy League school to permanently drop SAT/ACT testing requirement (NY Post, 3/2/23)
Where’s the Line? On the Kalven Report, academic freedom, and the limits of institutional neutrality * (City Journal, 3/2/23)
My Liberal Campus [Princeton] Is Pushing Freethinkers to the Right * (NY Times, 3/1/230)
MIT Free Speech Alliance Statement Regarding Offensive Flyers and Messages on MIT Campus (MITFSA, 3/1/23)
The Commissars Will See You Now: At Florida International University, DEI bureaucrats have made political activism the center of academic life. (City Journal, 3/1/23)
