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Conservatives have even joined the push for campus diversity. A young-right group called Students for Academic Freedom is pressing states to adopt its Academic Bill of Rights, which would require colleges to promote "intellectual diversity" among their faculties, guest speakers and assigned authors. (Practically speaking, of course, such diversity would mean hiring more conservatives.) After a version of the bill was introduced in the Colorado legislature this year, the state's four biggest universities agreed to examine whether political diversity is threatened on their campuses. Legislators in four other states have also introduced versions of the bill...
...largest zoos can't really afford to adopt that approach. The San Diego Zoo, for example, draws some 3 million visitors a year and like many big city zoos is a major contributor to the local economy. Zoo officials consider it part of their mission to inspire visitors to care about wildlife and the habitats that nurture it. "We're trying to engage people emotionally," says Andy Baker, senior vice president for animal programs at the Philadelphia Zoo, the nation's oldest. "It's much less about natural history and life cycle these days and more about empathy...
...Faculty, both because they are great scholars and teachers and because any faculty without minorities or women is handicapped in the view of the world it receives and transmits to its students. Perhaps the greatest recent example of absurd University intransigience was its refusal last month to adopt a code explicitly promising not to discriminate against gay students. The Faculty Council was unable to find evidence of discrimination. What the Council did do was inform a large—and repeatedly harrassed—segment of the University population that the administration is unconcerned about their situation. In much...
...government, but all the women are welfare recipients.” To combat just that sort of subtle discrimination, a student group has recommended a mandatory day-long seminar for faculty on “institutional racism and sexism.” We urge the school to adopt this suggestion—and one that it hire a full-time recruiter for minority students. Each time students have made requests, administrators have replied that they sympathize with the suggestions but that “financial considerations” make implementation impossible. Coming from the K-School, which is growing...
...worry about this whenever I am asked by deans and presidents of leading foreign universities to define (and sometimes to help them to adopt) a “Harvard education.” When colleagues from several Asian countries have asked how best they could import our Core Curriculum, I felt compelled to tell them of all its strengths. But I also share with them our several proposals to replace...