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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...

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...

How not to deal with pronouns as a professor

Apparently the Office of Civil Rights in the U.S. Department of Education launched a civil rights investigation at Taft College due to “misgendering”. What horrific events spurred the investigation? The student’s professors tried to use the plural pronouns but didn’t always succeed. It is understandably difficult for someone delivering collegiate-level instruction to remember to refer...

Schools in the UK allow students to identify as cats, horses and dinosaurs!

They told us in the US that students identifying as animals was a hoax. If it’s happening in the UK, does anyone really believe it’s not happening here? Difficult as it may be to believe, children at a school in East Sussex were reprimanded last week for refusing to accept a classmate’s decision to self-identify as a cat. The Year 8 pupils were told they would be reported to a senior...

Western Kentucky Regents refuse to fire “racist” tenured professor

A really surprising outcome, given that the president of university wanted to fire her for “incompetency.” If you read the article very carefully, you’ll see that they took a couple of semesters of poor teaching evaluations and turned that into her suddenly being incompetent at her job. A couple of semesters of poor teaching evals for a professor who had been there for seventeen...

Pronoun battle ends with a win

Turns out leftist ideology has a fatal flaw when it comes to public institutions. The leftists keep pushing this mantra of how fundamentally flawed our society is, in essence making a political argument about race and gender. They want to use this political ideology to restrict speech. But you can’t compel political speech at public institutions. More detail on the 6th Circuit ruling here...

Why DEI must be opposed in education

Because the endgame is always the same: bring everyone down to the lowest level in order to achieve “equity”: San Diego’s largest high school, Patrick Henry High School, has cut some honors courses without informing the student’s parents. As expected, parents are outraged and worries the lack of honors courses will hurt students chances of getting accepted to prestigious universities...

How the woke are ruining math in our schools

As the New York Times reports, “testing results regularly show that math students in the United States are lagging behind those in other industrialized nations. And within the country, there is a persistent racial gap in achievement.” And the traditional approach to math creates the appearance of a conflict between these two real problems: To improve math education, we need to better tailor the...

Report shows UNC System wastes millions on CRT/DEI

Here are some highlights: Total DEI administrative salaries across the system exceed $12 million. Both UNC-Chapel Hill and NC State each have 11 DEI administrators making more than $100,000, with more than 30 DEI employees total at each school. Salaries at each university total more than $3.25 million. UNC System medical schools have extensive DEI administrative functions, including the UNC...

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