The University of Wisconsin’s Lesson: Ignorance + Political Correctness =...
As in the disturbing incident at Widener Law School, in which a professor has been persecuted and punished for the imagined sexist and racist implications in his fanciful classroom hypothetical, a...
View ArticleUnethical Quote of the Week: University of Wisconsin-Stout Chancellor Charles...
University of Wisconsin-Stout Chancellor Charles W. Sorensen ratifies the school's police chief's decision to remove two posters from a professor's office door out of fear of a fictional character in...
View ArticleCatawba Valley Community College vs. FIRE, Free Speech and Fairness
A community college was using a vague policy to bully a student who objected to being exploited as part of an unholy alliance between the school and a credit card company. And then FIRE entered the...
View ArticleEthics Hero: F.I.R.E…Again.
Once again, the indispensable Foundation for Individual Rights in Education stopped a private university from crushing a student for the imaginary offense of expressing opinions on-line that others...
View ArticleThe Greensboro College “It Stops Here” Ethics Train Wreck
Everybody's unethical here. As usual, however, it starts at the top. Continue reading →
View ArticleThe Seventh Annual Ethics Alarms Awards: The Best of Ethics 2015, Part I
The Best of Ethics 2015 is going to be a bit more self-congratulatory this year, beginning with the very first category. Among other virtues, this approach has the advantage of closing the gap in...
View ArticleDear Harvard: Fire President Drew Faust And Dean Rakesh Khurana
Ironic, isn't it? We just saw an all-women's college survive an effort to shut it down, and here is a female president of the U.S.'s most prestigious institution declaring that that such an institution...
View ArticleEthics Hero: Notre Dame Political Science Professor Vincent Phillip Muñoz
For every Ethics Hero there are equal and opposite Ethics Dunces. Especially in academia... Continue reading →
View ArticleFoundation For Individual Rights In Education (The FIRE) Report: America’s...
FIRE continues to exhibit the qualities of integrity, consistency and non-political commitment that the ACLU's actions and policies so frequently lack. Continue reading →
View ArticleFIRE Names The Ten Colleges That Most Abuse Freedom Of Speech. Yes, Harvard...
FIRE, as always, is an Ethics Hero and a national treasure.
View ArticleEthics Catch-Up, 7/23/2020: Waiting For Baseball Edition [Corrected]
On baseball, piggies, weenies, petitions and hypocrites....
View ArticleVictim, Weenie And Enabler: The Persecution of Prof. Jason Kilborn
Meanwhile, the now fully partisan and race-obsessed ACLU announced that it will be making its primary focus "racial justice" instead of protecting free speech.
View ArticleA New Victim At Umpqua Community College
The name of the school was so familiar, I thought I had already written on this issue. But no: the past Ethics Alarms pieces were related—dimly–to the fate of student Kaylyn Willis, but this ethics...
View ArticleOh, Fine: Now I Have To Revise My Harvard Reunion Boycott Letter…
Harvard is practicing straight-up segregation. It really is.
View ArticleAdd Dartmouth To The List Of Elite Colleges Deliberately Chilling Non-Woke...
I suppose it should be soothing to know that not only Yale and Harvard are Ivy League schools dedicated to ideological indoctrination...
View ArticleDetails And Nuance In The Dartmouth/FIRE/College Republicans Collision
There was more to the Dartmouth-FIRE controversy than Ethics Alarms revealed...
View ArticleCompelled Ideological Conformity In Higher Education: Part I, The Students
This is frightening, infuriating, and, of course, unethical.
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