Virginia Association of Scholars Readings, Week of Sept. 5

Nadine Strossen on the importance of academic freedom and freedom of speech:  https://academicfreedom.org/seeking-justice-seeking-truth-a-conversation-with-nadine-strossen/Conflicting goals of public education:  https://www.manhattan-institute.org/new-yorks-parents-are-exercising-their-school-optionsOhio law moves universities to support free speech:  https://campusreform.org/article?id=20075Heritage report on DEI takes similar approach to ours:  https://www.heritage.org/education/report/diversity-university-dei-bloat-the-academyReport documents failure of DEI to achieve goals:  https://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/mckinsey/industries/education/our%20insights/racial%20and%20ethnic%20equity%20in%20us%20higher%20education/racial-and-ethnic-equity-in-us-higher-education-executive-summary.pdf?shouldIndex=falseMore science is now an ideology:  https://quillette.com/2022/08/28/the-fall-of-nature/And:  https://spectatorworld.com/topic/follow-science-became-politicized-anthony-fauci/DEI diagnostic tool from Oregon Scholars:  https://www.thecollegefix.com/new-tool-helps-parents-students-assess-dei-sickness-level-at-schools/Wokeness is about providing jobs for an expanding managerial class:    https://www.city-journal.org/wokeness-the-highest-stage-of-managerialismMedical schools seek students devoted to DEI:  https://www.nationalreview.com/news/top-med-schools-weed-out-applicants-who-dont-support-dei-new-report-says/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=homepage&utm_campaign=river&utm_content=featured-content-trending&utm_term=secondWebsite of interest:  https://www.dissidentprof.comRoundup of DEI impact on universities:  https://dailycaller.com/2022/09/05/universities-diversity-vet-students-faculty/?utm_medium=email&pnespid=p797DiNWO69Fh..OvTvqF8zT4Q6oU4t4fO_u3Lp4tUxmofLqskBnSVxTZGi49bxIK7a_AQxRFeferal judge orders more discovery in censorship case:  https://nclalegal.org/2022/09/ncla-suit-uncovers-army-of-federal-bureaucrats-coercing-social-media-companies-to-censor-speech/FIRE university free speech rankings:  https://rankings.thefire.org/rank.  W&M, GMU and UVA Listed as "above average"Pressure to remove Youngkin appointee to UVA Board:  https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/09/09/uva-students-speak-out-against-new-board-member?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=6a541eb8ab-DNU_2021_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-6a541eb8ab-237273337&mc_cid=6a541eb8ab&mc_eid=6bd7136c25The new "loyalty oaths" are widespread:  https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/higher-ed-new-woke-loyalty-oaths-dei"... colleges are not, in fact, left-wing institutions:". https://www.chronicle.com/article/colleges-must-stop-trying-to-appease-the-right?cid2=gen_login_refresh&cid=gen_sign_in&cid2=gen_login_refreshCensorship at Claremont-McKenna:  https://unherd.com/2022/09/how-my-college-is-censoring-me/?tl_inbound=1&tl_groups[0]=18743&tl_period_type=3&mc_cid=adf15d26e7&mc_eid=e0b24d655a

James Bacon

After a 25-year career in Virginia journalism, James A. Bacon founded Bacon’s Rebellion in 2002 a blog with the goal of “Reinventing Virginia for the 21st Century.” Its focus is on building more prosperous, livable and sustainable communities. In recent years he has concentrated more on the spread of “woke” ideology in K-12 schools, the criminal justice system, higher education, and medicine.

In 2021, he co-founded The Jefferson Council to preserve free speech, intellectual diversity, and the Jeffersonian legacy at his alma mater the University of Virginia. He previously served as the organization’s executive director, now serving as congributing editor.

Aside from blogging, Bacon writes books. His first was Boomergeddon: How Runaway Deficits Will Bankrupt the Country and Ruin Retirement for Aging Baby Boomers — And What You Can Do About It, followed by Maverick Miner: How E. Morgan Massey Became a Coal Industry Legend and a work of science fiction, Dust Mites: the Siege of Airlock Three.

A Virginian through-and-through, Bacon lives in Richmond with his wife Laura.

https://www.baconsrebellion.com/wp/
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