Cornell University’s Faculty Senate recently considered a slate of anti-racism proposals developed in response to President Martha Pollack’s charge to the faculty. After wide-ranging discussion and deliberation, the Faculty Senate approved a new academic...
Judging from the voting in Cornell University’s Faculty Senate in late May, it appears that faculty representatives are showing significant prudence and discernment in the hard work of finding a way forward in a...
.According to Intercollegiate Studies Institute president Johnny Burtka, “Free societies don’t work without virtuous and educated people.” The American republic relies on a “citizenry that can engage in politics at every level – from local townhalls...
Program Washington, DC – Duke University’s Arete Initiative has been named an Oasis […]
Washington, DC – The University of Notre Dame’s Center for Citizenship & Constitutional […]
After the pandemic cut short her senior year on the University of Pittsburgh campus,Sydney Massenberg found herself stuck at home in New Jersey, watching news about George Floyd’s murder and other acts of police...
Cornell University’s Faculty Senate Now Voting on Proposals that Imperil Academic Freedom On May 6, Cornell University’s Faculty Senate began a weeklong voting process on proposals that would mandate antiracism training for faculty and...
In an 1816 letter to his friend Charles Yancey, Thomas Jefferson wrote, “The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe...
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