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Issues of happiness and conformity notwithstanding, one might still wonder about the affirmative case for elite colleges, especially when considering the effort it takes to gain admittance to one.
After years of austerity measures implemented by conservative governments, Australia’s publicly-funded higher-education sector is barely solvent.
Communication studies is a broad field, encompassing verbal, written and non-verbal sub-categories.
We are effectively being told that, at this truth-seeking institution, it is inappropriate for us to utter certain indisputably true statements, because the value of truth is trumped by the emotional states of one or another demographic.
The admissions brochures like to focus on the statistics, from the number of Noble laureates on staff to the faculty-student ratio.
The better approach would be to invest meaningfully in the lousy schools that leave minority children so ill-prepared to compete.
In a classroom, curiosity should be sacred, because it motivates the pursuit of knowledge even when that includes ugly truths.
Medievalists of Color promptly issued a statement of support, describing Ramboran-Olm as “a woman of color in an organization so dominated by whiteness that it has not yet ceased referring to itself by a name that attracts and empowers white supremacists.”
The guidelines ethics committees follow present themselves as universal rules derived from reason.
Workers are instead selected by their educational credentials, even when a degree is unnecessary
In its effort to protect its students from potentially awkward social interactions, the university is arrogating adult decision-making to the institution.
This silencing campaign presents itself as inclusive and therapeutic. In reality, it poses a significant threat to intellectual and academic freedom, yet one that seems perennially overlooked in the campus speech wars.
If I had known, 20 years ago, that my side in the ideological wars over gender and sex was going to win so decisively, I would have been ecstatic
At the height of the #MeToo scandal in 2018, when dozens of actresses were coming forward with sordid testimonies about Harvey Weinstein’s sexual predation, a much more obscure scandal was unfolding around an academic journal involving the anthropologist David Graeber. The journal—HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory—was imploding
Ironically, what is really needed is the restoration of the entire college campus as a safe space for people of all perspectives.