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Home >  Events >  Welcome to the Ivory Tower of Babel
Welcome to the Ivory Tower of Babel
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Confessions of a Conservative College Professor
Start:  Thursday, May 6, 2004  1:00 PM
End:  Thursday, May 6, 2004  2:30 PM
Location:  Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI
1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036
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The lack of ideological diversity has been a problem on college campuses for decades. However, the problem has become more pronounced in the last decade due to the "diversity movement." Mike Adams, professor at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington and author of Welcome to the Ivory Tower of Babel (2004), and other discussants will examine the impact of these changes on how universities function and the quality of education provided to students. Both the desirability and effectiveness of public policies for creating more ideological diversity on campuses will be discussed. While some approaches (including litigation and its governing rules) will be applicable to public universities where about 80 percent of university students go to school, donor boycotts may be an effective method to create more diversity. A groundbreaking article on diversity in universities, published in The American Enterprise (September 2002), will also be taken into account in the discussion.

12:45 p.m.

Registration

1:00

Introduction: John R. Lott, Jr., AEI

 

Speaker: 

Mike Adams, University of North Carolina- Wilmington
1:30 Discussants: Eli Lehrer, The American Enterprise

 

 

Jim Miller, Smith College

2:00

Response and Discussion

 

2:30

Adjournment

Available in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.

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