Education/Higher ed

True equality is now within reach

Listen now | An interview with FBT co-founder and former DEI Director at De Anza College Tabia Lee

Finding guidance in the words of two great American Adamses

The incentive is never to turn down the heat

Stream Ep 149 I spoke with Jake Mackey about academia, and how it has gotten to the state it’s in. The slowly building pushback to authoritarianism within the academy and some of the initiatives involved. Do we have to rebuild, or can we save our institutions?

This month, I was fired from my position as faculty director for the Office of Equity, Social Justice, and Multicultural Education at De Anza Community College in Cupertino, Calif.

DR LEE: Even I, someone who some may assume would be on the side of so-called 'social justice warriors,' was too heterodox in my thinking. And I was bullied out.

Part One of a conversation between Kimi Katiti and FBT's Jake Mackey on Microaggressions and "Bias Education and Support Teams," or B.E.S.T.s.

Recently, the University of North Carolina voted to “ban” the requirement of politically charged prompts, like diversity statements, from any considerations for admission, hiring, promotion, and tenure. Such statements were deemed “compelled speech” and therefore antithetical to intellectual...

Last week, a friend, colleague, and co‐​Founder of Free Black Thought was ousted from her position at Foothills‐​De Anza Community College in California. Dr. Tabia Lee’s transgression: asking questions about DEI initiatives, fighting for viewpoint diversity, and upholding classical liberal...

I will be joined by author and professor, Jacob Mackey to discuss the pros and cons of a new form of microggression sensitivity training coming to a college ...

In this episode, Joe chats with Jake Mackey about the woke takeover over academia; the importance of preserving and studying the art and ideas of the past; h...

The Race in Racial Equity: What's it to You? To begin learning about race ideologies, please watch a workshop video and complete the interactive activities for equity practitioners/faculty/staff and students/learners.

Counterweight is an organization that helps individuals resist the imposition of Critical Social Justice (CSJ) on their day to day lives. Our primary focus is on directing individuals who have fallen foul of the ideology to the resources, advice and guidance their specific problems require.

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education’s mission is to defend and sustain the individual rights of students and faculty members at America’s colleges and universities. These rights include freedom of speech, freedom of association, due process, legal equality, religious liberty, and...

The Foundation for Excellence in Higher Education is dedicated to strengthening universities to fulfill their highest aspirations. Through our grantees, we offer undergraduate, graduate, and professional students the opportunity to pursue their studies with a vision of what higher education...

Heterodox Academy is a group of 4,400+ professors, administrators, K-12 educators, staff & students who believe diverse viewpoints & open inquiry are critical to research & learning. [...] We aspire to create college classrooms and campuses that welcome diverse people with diverse...

For more than seven decades, this principle has remained at the heart of UNCF, enabling us to raise more than $5 billion and help more than 500,000 students and counting not just attend college, but thrive, graduate and become leaders.

We do this in three ways: By awarding more than 10,...

The Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism (FAIR) is a nonpartisan organization dedicated to advancing civil rights and liberties for all Americans, and promoting a common culture based on fairness, understanding and humanity. We defend civil liberties and rights guaranteed to each individual...

The Academic Freedom Alliance is an alliance of college and university faculty members who are dedicated to upholding the principle of academic freedom. This principle is central to the mission of our institutions for the pursuit of truth and knowledge. Our members from across the political...

Scratch beneath the surface and it’s clear Gen Z are often conscientious and tolerant.

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I benefited greatly from affirmative action. I very much hope my children will not — because the current system contains significant weaknesses. The fate of the American Dream depends on reforming it to make it work.

On Monday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in an affirmative...

Has this ever happened to you? You proudly embrace your individuality and freedom of speech, but you work in an environment in which people who neither know you nor agree with your viewpoints are responsible for representing you solely because they look like you. The world treats these “...