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Do You Want To Go into Debt for This? Dennis Prager Summarizes Four Years of a Typical “Progressive” College Education in 60 Seconds
March 15th, 201205:06 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Jordan Lorence Dennis Prager urges college students and their parents to evaluate the value of going into debt for a college education in which students are bombarded for four years with withering criticism of every major value they hold. Prager does this by summarizing the major tenets taught at most public colleges and... -
ADF-Allied Attorney Calls out Colorado Professor for Feeble “Apology” to Student
August 08th, 201106:25 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Joseph Infranco The stereotype of the arrogant, leftist professor in the ivory tower occasionally shows up in real life in a manner that shows that the truth is stranger than fiction. Recent case in point: a biology professor at a Colorado college (let’s call him Dr. Jones) hotly ridiculed a student (let’... -
'Most College Fairs Don’t Feature Drag Performers in Habits'
May 04th, 201102:15 PM ETAuthor Gregory S. Baylor - ADF Senior Counsel That’s the first sentence of a remarkable article in the Chronicle of Higher Education. The article describes many colleges’ efforts to encourage homosexual students to apply and attend. These colleges tout their LGBT centers, their “pride months,” their homosexual ... -
We Hate You. Now Give Us Your Kids So That We Can Turn Them against You.
March 22nd, 201106:08 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Legal Counsel Jeff Shafer The late American philosopher Richard Rorty (d. 2006) in describing his assessment of the role of university professor wrote: “When we American college teachers encounter religious fundamentalists, we do not consider the possibility of reformulating our own practices of justification ... -
“Could We Be Discriminating?”
February 08th, 201101:18 PM ETAuthor: ADF Litigation Staff Counsel Travis C. Barham That is the question that dominated the Society for Personality and Social Psychology at its annual conference, according to a fascinating article in today’s New York Times (also referenced by Inside Higher Ed). But rather than looking at the usual litany of victims and roun... -
Neutrality, My Foot
February 07th, 201105:22 PM ETAuthor ADF Senior Legal Counsel Jeff Shafer It is a reigning deceit in our national consciousness, a lie on which innumerable social and institutional practices and expectations are founded, that religion can and should be merely an optional component of individual private life. This thesis further maintains that barricades can and mu... -
A Profile of This Year’s Freshmen: Causes for Concern
January 31st, 201109:17 AM ETAuthor ADF Senior Counsel Gregory S. Baylor The UCLA Higher Education Research Institute has released “The American Freshman: National Norms for 2010.” The data have troubling implications for the future of religious liberty, both on campus and beyond. First, the #2 “current religious preference” (after Roman Catho... -
Top Ten New Year’s Resolutions for College Administrators
January 07th, 201105:13 PM ETAuthor: ADF Legal Counsel Heather Gebelin Hacker Since this is still the first week of the new year, it’s not too late to make some New Year’s resolutions. Here are some suggestions for college administrators, based on what happened in 2010: 10. Surreptitiously confiscating an independent student newspaper’s b... -
Blaming the Messenger
December 30th, 201010:50 AM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Gregory S. Baylor Worth checking out: KC Johnson’s excellent piece over at Minding the Campus entitled ”The Big, Bad, ‘Right Wing.’” Johnson critically analyzes an article in Thought & Action, the higher education journal of the National Education Association teachers’ u... -
“Potentially Evangelical”: How to Lose a Job Offer Without Even Trying
December 28th, 201012:41 PM ETAuthor: ADF Senior Counsel Gregory S. Baylor Did the University of Kentucky commit religious discrimination? It sure looks that way. The University decided to construct an astronomical observatory. It considered a number of candidates for the directorship of the new observatory, including Martin Gaskell, at the time a professor...
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