Tag: Education
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In August 2025, George Mason University’s first Black president, Gregory Washington, faced a demand that speaks volumes about race, power, and leadership in higher education. The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights wrongly concluded that GMU’s faculty diversity practices violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. As part of a proposed resolution,…
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I was angry when someone who reported to me in the provost’s office wanted nix our funding commitment to the Native American community on campus. His justification stopped me in my tracks. He said, “There are only four or five Indians on our campus.” I was incensed. The comment was not only inaccurate, it was…
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By now, most people have heard the news. U.S. District Judge Stephanie Gallagher, herself a Trump appointee, ruled that the Department of Education acted unlawfully when it issued two guidance documents directing colleges to dismantle their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs or risk losing federal funding. “The government cannot proclaim that it ‘will no…
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You ever been halfway through a drive-through order, leaned into the Burger King speaker all confident—“Yeah, let me get a double Whopper, fries, and a Coke”—and then your conscience reminds you, “Wait, weren’t we supposed to be vegan this week?” Suddenly you’re slamming the gearshift into reverse like your life depends on it. You’re not…
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The Manhattan Institute’s so-called “Statement on Higher Education” is not a policy document. It is a political manifesto wrapped in the language of reform. Its signatories want you to believe that universities have lost their way, that they have betrayed some mythical past when higher education served only truth, honor, and a unified national mission.…
Cloaking Inequity 