Inside Higher Ed
MARCH 23, 2023
A Stanford University law school dean at the center of a free speech controversy has been placed on leave amid continuing criticism of the March 9 event, at which students shouted down federal judge Kyle Duncan, an anti-LGBTQ+ conservative, who had been invited to speak on campus. Hide by line?:
FIRE
OCTOBER 18, 2022
But FIRE, ever hopeful that change could yet be on the horizon, hopes a strong (albeit imperfect) statement last week from Yale Law School’s dean could usher in that long-awaited era. Chicago’s policy prohibits only recording classes, lectures and university events. Almost 1,500 people have signed it to date.
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Insight Into Diversity
JANUARY 30, 2023
“Our grief is minimal compared to that felt by Tyre Nichols’ family and friends, the Memphis community and others who have lost loved ones as a result of police brutality, but these tragic events can and do impact our well-being and mental health — as individuals and as a society,” said Pennsylvania State University leaders in an open letter.
University Business
APRIL 5, 2023
A notable recent example of campus intolerance: Stanford students and an associate dean of diversity, equity and inclusion heckled a federal judge into silence during his visit, which led to Stanford’s president and law dean issuing an apology. Four schools were selected for the pilot program.
University Business
MARCH 31, 2023
Before Alverno College, Foy served as Dean of the Faculty at Marian University in Wisconsin from 2018 to 2020. Slabach, president of Texas Wesleyan University, has accepted the bittersweet call to serve as dean of the University of Mississippi Law School, of which he is a graduate. We are excited to the moon.”
Inside Higher Ed
MARCH 14, 2023
The initial story was significantly stoked by conservative activist Ed Whelan, who released a partial video of the event to Twitter that made it appear Duncan was “shouted down” and unable to speak. At that point, Tirien Steinbach, the associate dean for diversity, equity, and inclusion (and a Black woman), approached the judge.
Insight Into Diversity
OCTOBER 18, 2022
IUPUI continued the White Racial Literacy Project with the Chancellor’s Leadership Reading Program, which is inclusive of all vice chancellors and deans, in a yearlong reading of “Presumed Incompetent: Race, Class, Power and Resistance of Women in Academia” as well as an auditorium-packed lecture featuring Ibram X.
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