Manny Diaz Details How Duke's Academic Standards Impact Recruiting

Defending Academic Freedom in The Male Animal

At a time when academic and political repression is sweeping the United States, the 1942 screwball comedy The Male Animal offers a reminder of what courage in the face of crackdowns on a college campus can look like. Still from The Male Animal. (Warner Bros.) It’s graduation season in America, one that has been made unusually dramatic and occasionally inspiring by university students such as Cecilia Culver of George Washington University and Lo…

Manny Diaz details how Duke's academic standards impact recruiting

It's no secret that Duke has to adhere to a different academic standard than many teams in the college football world.

Duke University Press Stays Woke — The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal

I recently came across an alarming 2014 article on academic freedom in the Harvard Crimson. “Let’s give up on academic freedom in favor of justice” was the subtitle. The author was an obviously very bright female student. Academic freedom exists to allow a university to be unimpeded in its search for truth. It has been known since the 18th-century philosopher David Hume, if not before, that justice depends on first getting the facts right. A jus…