CAMBRIDGE — Three out of five members of the slate of candidates running for seats on the Harvard's second most powerful governing board on a platform of free tuition and greater transparency in admissions are adding another issue to their platform: freedom of association.
Led by conservative businessman Ron Unz, the slate also includes liberal icon and former Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader; Stuart Taylor, a scholar at the Brookings Institute and a former legal affairs reporter for the New York Times; Michigan State University physics professor Stephen Hsu; and Lee C. Cheng, chief legal officer at Newegg, a prominent patent watchdog agency.
AMHERST – The University of Massachusetts has turned a corner and begun to more explicitly prescribe political attitudes and views that students – and faculty – at its flagship Amherst campus must not only study but embrace, critics say.
The school, in recent guidelines sent to teachers on constructing new courses or updating old ones, is pushing a "social justice agenda," according to Daphne Patai, a professor who has publicly objected to the policy. In an email, she said it's about "the explicit politicization of the guidelines so that they embody a particular political perspective, which evidently professors and students are expected to embrace."
