Now, affirmative action based on political ideology!
The University of Colorado is considering a $9 million program to bring high-profile political conservatives to teach on the left-leaning campus.
CU officials want to create an endowment for a Visiting Chair in Conservative Thought and Policy.
The program would bring a rotating cast of scholars, historians, politicians and media personalities [...]
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A couple of months ago, I blogged about the Keith Sampson case. The Volokh Conspiracy has an update about the matter:
The matter seems to have been finally resolved, and resolved right (though the complaint should have been thrown out at the very beginning, rather than leading to a finding of racial harassment). Here’s the letter [...]
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Posted in India, education, libertarianism, tagged affirmative action, arjun singh, caste, discrimination, education, equality, freedom, indian laws, laws, liberty, private institutions, quotas, reservations on April 25, 2008 | No Comments »
Buoyed by its Supreme Court success on the reservation issue, the Indian government now wants to introduce quotas in private educational institutions as well.
I quote from the report in the Telegraph (emphasis mine) :
The Centre plans to table a bill to introduce quotas and control fees in private higher education institutes in the monsoon session [...]
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Posted in India, libertarianism, tagged affirmative action, arjun singh, caste, discrimination, education, equality, freedom, iim, iit, India, indian constitution, laws, market, obc, quota, reservation, supreme court, supreme court of india on April 10, 2008 | No Comments »
The Supreme Court judgement on the OBC reservation issue should not surprise anyone. After all, the Supreme Court’s job isn’t to make laws but merely to ascertain whether existing laws were broken. And in the present case, the Supreme Court decided that nothing in the Indian Constitution prevents Arjun Singh from adding a 27% quota [...]
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Posted in education, libertarianism, sci, tech and gizmos, tagged academia, affirmative action, anti-discrimination, bias, christina sommers, freedom, gender, politics, quotas, research, science, sommers, title ix, women on March 10, 2008 | No Comments »
Here is a link to an article by Christina Sommers in which she talks about gender politics, affirmative action in higher education and recent, extremely worrying developments. Read the whole article, I cannot recommend it highly enough.
(Link via The Volokh conspiracy)
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Posted in education, libertarianism, news and links, tagged affirmative action, civil liberty, first amendment, freedom, freedom of expression, freedom of speech, ku klux klan, offended feelings, political corectness, racial harassment on March 6, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Keith Sampson, a university employee and student, has been charged with racial harassment for reading a book called “Notre Dame vs. the Klan: How the Fighting Irish Defeated the Ku Klux Klan” during his work breaks. Apparently, the mere presence of the word Ku Klux Klan offended a co-worker, despite the fact that the book is in fact [...]
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