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The Iowa Way

By K.C. Johnson

Two articles that crossed my desk in the past week attest to the grip that race/class/gender-based political correctness exercises over college and university campuses. The articles also give a sense as to why so few administrations have chosen to use what happened at Duke to address similar problems of faculty groupthink on issues of race, class, and gender on their own campuses.A faculty environment that openly embraced ideological one-sidedness and a politically correct president who boasted that in her previous position, ?56% of [new faculty] hires were women and/or minorities, [and] she also formed a diversity leadership group? provided the backdrop to a sad episode that was recently profiled in the Chronicle of Higher Education.A summary: in recent months, two Iowa professors (first Arthur Miller, a professor of political science; and then Mark Weiger, an oboe professor) committed suicide, after facing charges of sexual harassment...continue to full post

Full post as published by Durham-in-Wonderland on March 09, 2009 (boomark / email).