by jpitney | Sep 8, 2024 | Claremont McKenna College, Free Speech, Higher Education
Jacob Smagula at the Claremont Independent: On Wednesday, Claremont McKenna College leapt from 73rd to sixth place in the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression’s newest College Free Speech Rankings. CMC had previously placed sixth in 2022, and first in 2021....
by jpitney | Aug 28, 2024 | Higher Education, Israel
Antisemitism on Campus: Understanding Hostility to Jews and Israel Graham Wright, Shahar Hecht, Sasha Volodarsky, and Leonard Saxe August 2024 We know that Jewish students have experienced a heightened hostile environment on many college campuses since October 7. But...
by jpitney | Aug 27, 2024 | Higher Education, Israel, Middle East
Jay P. Greene and Frederick M. Hess at the American Enterprise Institute: Academic associations have a long history of connecting scholars and promoting scholarship, but too many today have traded their scholarly mission for a political one. Of the 99 academic...
by jpitney | Aug 18, 2024 | Free Speech, Higher Education, Middle East
Alyssa Lukpat at at WSJ: A federal judge ruled the University of California, Los Angeles, must ensure equal access to campus for Jewish students after some alleged in a lawsuit they were blocked by protesters at this spring’s pro-Palestinian encampments. U.S. District...
by jpitney | Aug 14, 2024 | Civility, Deliberation, Higher Education, Middle East, Uncategorized
CMC Professor Gary Gilbert at Inside Higher Ed: I am suggesting the need to inculcate an obligation to engage, to find ways that members of an academic community can create room for discussion, built on questions rather than conclusions. Anything that promotes...
by jpitney | Aug 11, 2024 | Civic Education, civic virtue, Civility, Higher Education
Former Rep. Heather Wilson (R-NM) — now president of the University of Texas at El Paso — writes at The Austin American-Statesman: Universities should do more to restore the institutions that matter most by encouraging and requiring students to serve...
