Ohio State University Hired Based on Race and Gender, Emails Show
A tranche of internal messages exposes the school’s past hiring policies.
Does D.E.I. Help or Hurt Jewish Students?
Some students and professors are questioning whether campus diversity, equity and inclusion offices should do more to combat antisemitism, or whether D.E.I. itself is the problem.
Trump Department of Education rolls back DEI initiatives
The U.S. Department of Education took initial steps to carry out President Trump’s anti-DEI executive order Thursday, putting employees on paid administrative leave and tossing out resources.
DFTD’s Kenny Xu Talks DEI on Fox News @ Night
Davidsonians for Freedom of Thought and Discourse Executive Director Kenny Xu was on Fox News last night discussing President Trump’s momentous early moves on federal “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” (or DEI) initiatives. Kenny is also the author of “School of Woke.” Great job, Kenny. Learn more about Davidsonians for Freedom of Thought and Discourse by […]
Is the “Covid Cohort” of College Students Less Woke?
This piece is published with permission of The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal, on whose website it originally appeared. Students who came to college in the fall of 2024 are the first class that spent the entirety of their high school years in a pandemic-shaped world. These students are called the “Covid Cohort” […]
Should What Happens In The Classroom Stay In The Classroom?
If 2024 is remembered as the year when “DEI” was deservedly put on the defensive and institutional neutrality gained traction as a long overdue higher-ed reform, what big changes could 2025 bring? Some hope this will be the year when “the Chatham House Rule” takes academia by storm. What is “the Chatham House Rule” and […]
The AFSA Weekly Review
AFSA HIGHLIGHTS University of Washington alumni seek to revive the spirit of free inquiry The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. An independent new alumni group — Husky Alumni for Academic Excellence — has articulated a mission that is ambitious yet essential: “To reinvigorate free and open academic inquiry and to foster a campus ethos […]
Alumni Associations Need Reimagining And Reinvention
A new Manhattan Institute issue brief by Jay Schalin, “Ending Conformity on the Quad,” may have been written with university trustees in mind but the insights and ideas therein will be useful to almost anyone engaged in the higher-ed reform debates. The entire brief is excellent. But one short but powerful passage stands out. Alumni […]
University of Washington alumni seek to revive the spirit of free inquiry
The fight for free speech on campus, as history has long demonstrated, is never truly won. It must be waged anew by each generation.
Higher-Ed Reform’s Coming of Age
This piece is republished with permission of The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal, on whose website it originally appeared. On this we all agree: Higher education is in crisis. Rolling protests, rising tuition, and growing distrust have compelled elected officials to speak seriously about reforming our nation’s postsecondary education system for the first […]
