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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...

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Unethical 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...

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Catawba 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...

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Ethics 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...

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The Greensboro College “It Stops Here” Ethics Train Wreck

Everybody's unethical here. As usual, however, it starts at the top. Continue reading →

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The 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...

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Dear 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...

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Ethics 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 →

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Foundation 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 →

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FIRE Names The Ten Colleges That Most Abuse Freedom Of Speech. Yes, Harvard...

FIRE, as always, is an Ethics Hero and a national treasure.

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Ethics Catch-Up, 7/23/2020: Waiting For Baseball Edition [Corrected]

On baseball, piggies, weenies, petitions and hypocrites....

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Victim, 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.

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A 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...

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Oh, Fine: Now I Have To Revise My Harvard Reunion Boycott Letter…

Harvard is practicing straight-up segregation. It really is.

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Add 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...

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Details And Nuance In The Dartmouth/FIRE/College Republicans Collision

There was more to the Dartmouth-FIRE controversy than Ethics Alarms revealed...

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Compelled Ideological Conformity In Higher Education: Part I, The Students

This is frightening, infuriating, and, of course, unethical.

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