Jan ‘23 Higher Ed Collection
The following are higher ed-related articles of interest from January 2023. Those of most interest will be detailed in individual postings.*
Hamline: The university fighting back against the diversocrats (Spectator, 1/30/23)
Reviewing the '1619 Project,' Four Years On (Chronicle, 1/30/23)
UNC Takes on the University Echo Chamber* (WSJ 1/27/23)
How Much Do We Actually Care If Professors Reflect America? (Heterodox: The Blog, 1/26/23)
Weaponizing Feelings and New Trends in Academic Freedom: An Interview with UPenn Professor Jonathan Zimmerman
Nazis Banned Books. We Shouldn’t. (Stanford Review, 1/23/23)
The Numbers Show That MIT Has a Free-Speech Problem (WSJ, 1/23/23)— see related Feb 2023
Strengthening Genuine Intellectual Diversity: ACTA talks to Yale’s William F. Buckley, Jr. Program Director (ACTA, 1/19/23)
Florida’s State Colleges Say They’ll Ban Promotion of Critical Race Theory (Chronicle, 1/18/23)
UNC Board passes motion preventing compelled speech in admission and hiring—motion will be taken up by the full board next month (1/18/23)
State Lawmakers Can Reform Higher Ed by Ilya Shapiro and Christopher Rufo (WSJ, 1/17/23) | Model Bill
After Lecturer Sues, Hamline University Walks Back Its ‘Islamophobic’ Comments (NYT, 1/17/23)
An Emerging Community of Scholars: An Interview with Professor Christopher Tollefsen, founding AFA member (AFA, 1/17/23)
The 7 Habits of Freedom Loving Academics (Heterodox STEM, 1/14/23)
The Academic-Freedom Controversy That Won’t Die: Hamline University (Chronicle, 1/13/23)
Recapturing Higher Education: On the plan to transform New College of Florida into a classical liberal arts institution (City Journal, 1/12/23)
Academic Freedom Is Not a Matter of Opinion (Atlantic, 1/12/23)
Logos in Savannah* How a new college in Georgia is tapping into the movement to rejuvenate American education (City Journal, 1/11/23)
Hamline University’s Controversial Firing Is a Warning (Slate, 1/11/23)
A Report From the Stanford Academic Freedom Conference (Quillette, 1/11/23)
Don't Ban Depictions of Muhammad From the Classroom (Persuasion, 1/11/23)
How Heterodox Academy Hopes to Change the Campus Conversation* (Chronicle of Higher Ed, 1/9/23)
University removes ‘Harmful Language’ list following backlash* (The Stanford Daily, 1/8/23)
A Lecturer Showed a Painting of the Prophet Muhammad. She Lost Her Job.* (NYT, 1/8/23)
How Penn State abandoned a big pledge on racial justice (Washington Post, 1/5/23)
FIRE Letter to Hamline University (FIRE, 1/3/23)- Faculty who are interested in joining this letter may email facultyoutreach@thefire.org
AFA Letter to Hamline University (AFA, 1/3/23)
The Takeover*: Self-righteous professors have spawned self-righteous students and unleashed them into the public square (Tablet, 1/2/23)