The Cofnas and Arday controversies show that on matters of race, administrators at Cambridge have failed to conduct deliberate checks, failed in probity, and failed in their tolerance for unsettled science.
The Jason Arday fiasco is a reminder why academia has developed a reputation for cowardice, careerism, and conformism in recent years.
Tragicomic scenes from reparations-based medicine.
When ‘decolonial change alchemist’ Sabrina Meherally instructed her ‘white allies’ to divulge their pay rates and demographic details, many eagerly complied.
The cure may be worse than the disease.
The American Association of University Professors once defended heterodox thinkers. It now supports mandatory DEI statements and calls rival organisations right-wing stooges.
Civil-rights law made the DEI world; civil-rights reform can unmake it.
A team of researchers is analysing what factors lead American university administrators to embrace illiberal ideological trends.
Should Jewish students accept the mantle of a marginalised group or reject DEI ideology altogether?
My bosses wanted my Caribbean face at diversity training sessions. What they didn’t want were my actual viewpoints.
In a new memoir, a former academic administrator explains how she led the ideological campaign to enshrine DEI as a ‘core mission’ at the University of California.
This will mark out the university as a place to avoid if you’re hoping for a serious education.
