And I am not talking about three straight football losses to Michigan. John Sailer of the National Association of Scholars, a political conservative education advocacy organization, recently obtained 800 pages of “Diversity Faculty Recruitment Reports” from The Ohio State University....
Eboo Patel is the founder and presdient of Interfaith America and the author of We Need to Build: Field Notes for a Diverse Democracy. Earlier this year we called your attention to his piece at The Chronicle of Education: “Today’s...
Soong-Chan Rah is the Robert Munger Professor of Evangelism at Fuller Theological Seminary, an evangelical seminary in Pasadena, California. Here is a recent post from his Substack page: Despite all the craziness in the Evangelical world, I have retained my...
A Wheaton College task force has released a 122-page historical report on race relations at the evangelical institution. Read it here. Here is Daniel Silliman and Kate Shellnut at Christianity Today: Though the flagship evangelical institution was founded by abolitionists,...
Patel argues that universities should switch from an “antiracism” model of diversity to a ‘cosmpolitan” model. Here is a taste his Chronicle of Higher Education piece: “Today’s DEI Is Obsessed With Power and Privilege“: Over the past five years or...
Good for Wesleyan. I guess Lin-Manuel Miranda‘s kids will not get a special advantage at the Connecticut liberal arts college. (But something tells me that they will probably won’t need such an advantage!). Here is Vimal Patel at The New...
Florida governor Ron DeSantis just signed a bill banning diversity, equity, and inclusion programs at public universities. Here are two pieces I read today about the state of DEI on campuses and in the corporate world. Here is a taste...
Here is a small taste of the New York University psychology professor’s piece at The Chronicle of Higher Education: I have been thinking a lot about fiduciary duty because my main professional association — the Society for Personality and Social Psychology,...
Elizabeth Kimball is Assistant Professor of English at Drexel University. This interview is based on her new book, Translingual Inheritance: Language Diversity in Early National Philadelphia (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021). JF: What led you to write Translingual Inheritance? EK:...
You can read the document here. These priorities may influence who gets federal money for American history and civics programs and who does not. The Department is soliciting comments on these proposed priorities. The American History and Civics Education programs...
Over at The Washington Post, Yonat Shimron examines the religious affiliations of the member of Biden’s cabinet. Here is a taste: President Biden’s Cabinet is set to make history in a number of ways. If all the nominees he has...
The suburbs are in the news again. Remember this Tweet: I am happy to inform all of the people living their Suburban Lifestyle Dream that you will no longer be bothered or financially hurt by having low income housing built in...
A classics professor at Princeton University got into some trouble when he “declared independence” from a petition championed by hundreds of his colleagues. Here is a taste of Joshua Katz‘s piece at The Wall Street Journal: Now is the time to...
His name is Quan McLaurin. I am assuming he is resigning because of this: Here is his tweet: Yesterday I tendered my letter of resignation. As of July 2, 2020, I will no longer serve as the Director of Diversity...
The Office of Diversity & Inclusion at Amherst College in Massachusetts recently posted its “Common Language Guide,” a forty-page glossary of terms that calls for “a need to come to a common and shared understanding of language…around identity, privilege, oppression...
While I was visiting a big state university a couple of weeks ago I had a robust, spirited, and civil conversation with the history faculty about how to teach controversial or morally problematic issues. Many of the history professors in...
Back in December 2016, NPR ran a story on this popular sign. Perhaps you have one in your neighborhood. Or maybe you have one on your lawn. The words first appeared on a black and white sign outside the...
Have you seen this powerful new video from Ancestry.com? Â The video recreates John Trumbull’s “Declaration of Independence” painting: And here are the descendants: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1PMt8bnz34&w=560&h=315] Learn more about this video....
Andrea Turpin, a history professor at Baylor University, reflects on such an experience in a recent post at The Anxious Bench. Â She uses her observations from this graduate seminar, as well as her experience teaching an undergraduate class on women...
Rod Dreher of The American Conservative and “Benedict Option” fame blogged about this yesterday under the title “Brave Prof Stands Up To Duke Divinity SJWs.” The “brave prof” in question is Catholic theologian and Duke Divinity School faculty member Paul...
