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This is a pretty big deal. Summers banned from the economics professional association for life. aeaweb.org/news/aea-state…

This is the case in public policy and administration, where students often go their entire academic careers without hearing any opinion that diverges from the progressive orthodoxy. It's particularly problematic because our grads go on to strategic roles in government.

Mirroring the policy demands of my lawsuit, the University of Illinois System directed its universities to end illegal racial preferences in several domains and remove DEI criteria from faculty promotion & tenure norms. The University of Illinois Chicago United Faculty union is encouraging its members to oppose or

One idea I’ve been curious about is whether university board members themselves could ever be held personally liable. If a university commits malfeasance, I wonder if there’s a plausible argument that individual board members could be sued for breach of fiduciary duty. At

“Congress should hold hearings examining how these students were systematically failed—and how federal tax dollars continued to pour into a system this fundamentally corrupt. “A crisis of this scale…merits a full congressional investigation and bipartisan outrage.” —Ben Sasse

I'm getting the sense that the tide is turning in academia--that more people are unhappy with the highly politicized nature of our work. I'm getting this sense even from people I would have expected the opposite. But the visible and vocal image is still very different. Maybe it's

Thanks Steve Cortes! Americans deserve an honest appraisal of the impact of immigration on university admissions, labor markets, and national security. These are critical to creating sustainable funding models that preserve the teaching and research missions of universities.

NEW: Many IT firms are posting job ads that unlawfully bar applications from US citizens. Several of the firms are minority-owned—meaning they receive preferential access to government contracts at the same time that they exclude US workers. We've found dozens of examples.🧵

We appreciate faculty activism on administration decisions. It makes your reappointment review so much easier to prepare!

Can a State use state law to immunize a defendant from being sued for violating federal law? Supreme Court 9-0 answers, "No." The Court unanimously reversed the Louisiana Court of Appeals in a short opinion reaffirming federal supremacy.

When institutions realize they’re wrong, the path back to trust is simple: admit the mistake and correct course. Instead, too many obfuscate, lawyer up, and hide behind procedures. That’s how the vacuum of authority grows.

"The purpose of institutional neutrality is to curtail the unnecessary speech of leadership that might otherwise disenfranchise dissenting students and faculty and thereby stifle their speech... we must, and will, provide protections for free expression, but we cannot provide

For those following my case; the court set a date of October 2nd to rule on proceeding to discovery. We have not yet received this ruling and continue to wait for the judge's decision.

♥️♥️♥️ Got a message today from a retired mentor who knew me 25 years ago in college. She read my writing, told me she’s proud of me, and encouraged me to keep speaking up. It hit me deeply. Sometimes the support that matters most comes from people who knew you long before

The scientists prioritized institutional preservation and their own advancement within it over the truth. Once truth became secondary to protecting the system, public trust was guaranteed to fall.

Imagine being a fourth generation veteran and faculty member at a state university where this sort of rhetoric was both regular and accepted. A failure of leadership by University of Illinois Chicago and the University of Illinois System. Steve Cortes youtube.com/watch?v=9SWHmr…