Campus Politics
Power, identity, and speech in the new American university
How Political Correctness Chills Speech on Campus
A documentary film-maker was disinvited from an academic conference because an organizer feared she would be subject to ideologically motivated reprisals for hosting him.
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Jim Young / Reuters Grading the University of Chicago's Letter on Academic Freedom
Dean of Students John Ellison gets an A for initiative, a B-minus for execution, and extra-credit for stoking a useful debate.
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Carlos Jasso/Reuters What Should the Standard of Proof Be in Campus Rape Cases?
A new lawsuit takes aim at the Department of Education’s push to force colleges to decide cases based on “a preponderance of the evidence.”
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The Consortium / Flickr When 'Diversity' and 'Inclusion' Are Tenure Requirements
Faculty at Pomona College have set new guidlines—but the students who pushed for the change don’t agree among themselves on their implications.
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LM Otero / AP Ken Starr Stepping Down as Baylor University's Chancellor
The move comes just days after the school demoted Starr, its president, and fired Art Briles, the football coach, over how sexual-assault complaints were handled.
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters The Perils of Writing a Provocative Email at Yale
Nicholas and Erika Christakis stepped down from their positions in residential life months after student activists called for their dismissal over a Halloween kerfuffle.
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Gustau Nacarino / Reuters The High School That Banned Amnesty International
The rise of illiberal norms and the weakening of free speech continues to undermine the very causes valued by the American left.
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The Marmot / Flickr How To Be an Ally
College students are being told that “we cannot look at the world and say it is messed up and fix it without working on ourselves.” That is exactly the wrong advice to give them.
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Blue Jean Images / Corbis Do American Universities Discriminate Against Conservatives?
Two scholars discuss the ups and downs of life as a right-leaning professor.
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Max Whittaker / Reuters A Costly Suspension for UC Davis's Embattled Chancellor
Linda Katehi has been put on paid leave for 90 days while investigators probe allegations of nepotism, conflicts of interest, and squandering public money on PR.
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Ano Lobb / Flickr Left Outside the Social-Justice Movement's Small Tent
Why a high school senior feels alienated from activist groups that share causes in which he believes.
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Brian Nguyen / Reuters The Tools of Campus Activists Are Being Turned Against Them
Students working to force the resignation of UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi to resign face critics using the language of social justice to attack them.
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Brian Nguyen / Reuters How UC Davis Tried to Scrub Its Abuse of Students From the Web
The university spent at least $175,000 dollars to remove "references to the pepper spray incident in search results on Google for the university and the Chancellor."
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Bob Hall / Flickr Ohio State Turns the Concept of 'Safe Space' Against Student Protesters
Activists were cleared from a building by officials who claimed that they were making university employees feel scared.
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Ben Brewer / Reuters Civic Education in the Age of Trump
Public schools in the United States aren’t teaching students how to engage diverse opinions.
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Mel Evans / AP Campus Politics: A Cheat Sheet
Princeton’s board of trustees votes to retain Woodrow Wilson’s name on buildings and programs.
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Joe Mabel / Flickr Why Not Take a Black Studies Class?
Readers offer their insights and experiences to today’s college students and educators.
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Mpspqr / Wikimedia How Emory's Student Activists Are Fueling Trumpism
The billionaire candidate couldn’t have created more perfect foils for a candidacy built on resentment.
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Wikimedia A Dialogue on Race and Speech at Yale
An undergraduate and staff writer at The Atlantic exchange contrasting perspectives on the protests that roiled the campus last fall.
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Max Whittaker/Reuters UC Davis Students Demand the Ouster of Their Chancellor
Citing her paid side gigs and the horrific brutality by campus cops that marred her tenure, they make as strong a case as campus protesters anywhere in the nation.
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Wikimedia Self-Defeating Radicalism at Western Washington University
Student activists demand millions to reshape their institution and punish faculty members who violate ‘social justice’ taboos.
