Peter W. Wood

Peter W. Wood

College presidents often come under the spotlight for their political pronouncements or lack thereof. Since college presidents must contend with difficult issues of morality, principle, and politics a......

• College Presidents
• College Administration
• Intellectual Freedom

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Peter W. Wood

In 2015, campuses across the country erupted in protests aimed at limiting the freedoms of professors and fellow students. Over time, the National Association of Scholars felt a commitment to restate......

• Academic Freedom

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Rachelle Peterson and Peter W. Wood

The fossil fuel divestment movement, now on more than 1,000 American college campuses, aims at capturing a generation of college students as lifelong climate activists. This report is the first compre......

• Environmentalism
• Divestment
• Boycott, Divest, Sanction

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Rachelle Peterson and Peter W. Wood

To many, sustainability is just a new name for environmentalism. But the word has come to mean something much larger: an ideology that demands new limits on economic, political, and intellectual freed......

• Sustainability
• Environmentalism

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Michael Toscano and Peter W. Wood

Bowdoin College has dedicated itself to the achievement of social justice and replicating the image of progressive politics in its students. This study surveys the history of Bowdoin College and......

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Peter W. Wood

In 1971, the state of Texas enacted a legislative requirement that students at public institutions complete two courses in American history. With that mandate in mind, the Texas Association of Scholar......

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Glenn Ricketts, Ashley Thorne, Stephen H. Balch and Peter W. Wood

The Vanishing West traces the decline and near extinction of the Western Civilization history survey course in America’s top colleges and universities from 1964 to 2010.

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Peter W. Wood

Editor's introduction to the Fall issue. 

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Peter W. Wood

Mac Donald has long been at the forefront of efforts to document how bad ideas spread and affect the public, a focus she continues in this volume. Here she demonstrates that racial, gender, and sexual......

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Peter W. Wood

FOIA requests found evidence of racial discrimination at the University of Washington. A professor now accuses the University of a cover-up. A leading scholar of "whiteness" is accused of plag......

• Academic Dishonesty

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Peter W. Wood

Throughout the Western world the academy is imperiled. It faces threats of several kinds, but the principal threat is from its own turn against the civilization that gave rise to it.   

• Western Civilization
• Higher Education

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Peter W. Wood

The AAUP's new statement on boycotts places academic freedom on the backburner for temporary political gain.

• AAUP
• Academic Freedom
• BDS
• bds

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