That’s six out of eight now – 75%. Higher education tends to be highly emulative. How long before other universities and colleges abandon their test-optional policies altogether? This is also a significant win for those concerned about discrimination against Asians in college admissions. Without standardized test scores from all applicants, proving discrimination becomes nearly...
Fighting for Women’s Sports: My Title IX Complaint Against NC State
I’m not your typical Republican. I’m a lifelong atheist who has supported same-sex marriage for nearly four decades. Because of that, I have no issue with trans people. If a guy experiences gender dysphoria and finds that wearing makeup and a dress helps, hey, more power to him (or her, depending on your perspective). However, I do take issue when that same guy competes in women’s sports. My wife...
2025 Northwestern Main and Advanced Causal Inference Workshops
We are excited to be holding our 14th 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 28 – August 1, 2025 Advanced Workshop: Sunday – Wednesday, August 3-6, 2025 What’s special about these workshops are the world-class speakers, who are experts...
I’ve declared war on DEI at NC State
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...