My opening salvo is an op-ed in National Review (non-paywalled link), where I outline how NC State is violating UNC System Board of Governors policies on institutional neutrality and compelled speech. Enacted in 2023, these policies marked a significant victory for intellectual freedom in North Carolina’s public universities. The institutional neutrality policy states that no public university...
Big win for intellectual freedom: UNC System drops diversity course requirement
Wow! I certainly did not expect this: The University of North Carolina System is no longer requiring students to take courses focused on diversity, equity or inclusion as a condition of graduation, the system’s top lawyer told chancellors of system universities in a memo. The move is a response to a Jan. 21 executive order issued by President Donald Trump that seeks to eliminate diversity, equity...
2025 Summer Research Training Institute on Cluster-Randomized Trials
I attended this several years ago, I highly recommend: Dear Colleague,We will be offering the IES Summer Research Training Institute again this summer at Northwestern University from July 14 – 24, 2025. I hope you have found the previous training you received from the Summer CRT Institute to be valuable. As a previous participant in the Training Institute, I strongly encourage you to recommend...
My Op-Ed on the future of conservatism …
… was just published by the Carolina Journal, here is the intro: Conservatives across the country are celebrating the Republican Party’s control of the House, Senate, and presidency. While much has been written about Kamala Harris’s failed campaign and the seemingly dire state of the American left, there has been far less focus on what recent political shifts mean for the future of the...
Iwo Jima at UNC Chapel Hill
One of the comments said “How do I pay for their next kegger?” Turns out there is an epic GoFundMe called Pi Kappa Phi Men Defended their Flag. Throw ’em a Rager; it’s already at $50K and climbing. Here is the description: Commie losers across the country have invaded college campuses to make dumb demands of weak University Administrators. But amidst the chaos, the...
2024 Northwestern Main and Advanced Causal Inference Workshops
We are excited to be holding our 13th annual workshop on Research Design for Causal Inference at Northwestern Law School in Chicago, IL. We invite you to attend. Main Workshop: Monday – Friday, July 29 – August 2, 2024 Advanced Workshop: Sunday – Wednesday, August 4-7, 2024 What’s special about these workshops are the world-class speakers, who are experts in...
Getting tested for PCB exposure
Given the Poe Hall PCB contamination scandal, I’ve been doing a deep dive to try and figure out what the health consequences are for me. Unfortunately, the science is quite murky, because it is difficult to determine what is going on for people who have faced years of exposure to uncertain levels of PCBs. Besides skin disease, cancer seems to be the big concern. So I’ve done three...
2024 Summer Research Training Institute on Cluster-Randomized Trials
I attended this over a decade ago, it was a great experience: Dear Colleague,We will be offering the IES Summer Research Training Institute again this summer at Northwestern University from July 15 – 25, 2024. I hope you have found the previous training you received from the Summer CRT Institute to be valuable. As a previous participant in the Training Institute, I strongly encourage you to...
Woke Joke Part 8: Supreme Court passes
I’ve been so involved in the Poe Hall scandal that I forgot to post that the Supreme Court, not surprisingly, declined to hear my case against NC State; they only take on a handful of cases each year. So this means my case will *not* move forward to trial. [UPDATE: I was in a rush to get this out, and left out the important “not” in that sentence when I first posted this. :)] I...
Historic vote of no-confidence at NC State: only 25% of Education faculty have confidence in the Chancellor’s leadership
Following my request, the faculty in the College of Education voted last Friday on whether they had confidence in the leadership of Chancellor Woodson, Provost Arden, and Dean Sztajn due to their mismanagement of the Poe Hall situation. According to the Technician, this is the first time a no-confidence vote for a Chancellor has ever passed. Here are the results: The results are grim: at best...