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...
by jpitney | Jun 30, 2024 | Civility, Higher Education
Erwin Chemerinsky at MSN: As a dean of a public university law school, do I violate my students’ free speech rights when I encourage them to speak respectfully to one another, to demonstrate civility and to refrain from hateful expression? There are countless...
by jpitney | Jun 25, 2024 | Higher Education
Steven Teles at National Affairs: Claremont McKenna’s Jon Shields summarized the basic trend in the Fall 2018 issue of this journal, finding that outside of economics, the percentages of conservatives in the social-science and humanities disciplines have...
by jpitney | Jun 22, 2024 | Bipartisanship, Civic Education, civic virtue, Civility, Higher Education, Public Opinion
A new survey by The Common Good demonstrates a strong desire for a return to civility: The Common Good has been tracking national division and working to identify ways to return to greater civility and effective governance. While the results of this study demonstrate...
by jpitney | May 25, 2024 | Higher Education, Israel, Middle East, Protest
Marc Novicoff and Robert Kelchen at The Washington Monthly; We at the Washington Monthly tried to get to the bottom of this question: Have pro-Palestinian protests taken place disproportionately at elite colleges, where few students come from lower-income families?...
