School of Woke's Kenny Xu and former local DEI Dean Dr. Tabia Lee believe that to reform universities like SJSU, individual instructors must take a stand against destructive ideologies—even, and especially, when tenure's at stake (as with Dr. Lee two years ago). An Opp Now exclusive Q&A.
Read MoreWe all learned it in grade school: correlation ≠ causation. Unless you're a local Woke university trying to define (and box in) students by their heritage and skin color—which has huge consequences for The Academy's central mission. An Opp Now exclusive with experts Dr. Tabia Lee and Kenny Xu.
Read MoreDid you know that in May, Santa Clara Valley OSA was seeking a new board member to appoint? Well, neither did Ted Stroll, former Assembly candidate and seasoned OSA volunteer—and he scrutinizes the agency's dubious practices (which yielded just one applicant) in this Opp Now exclusive. He also recalls being the sole applicant to OSA's Citizens Advisory Committee in '22, and how their strange pivot—after praising Stroll's qualifications—might reveal "aspects of a private club."
Read MoreAs ever with the free market, many Silicon Valley companies are now dropping their DEI depts, initiatives, and language. But education—from Kindergarten to college—is a whole different story. Free speech advocates Kenny Xu and Dr. Tabia Lee analyze in this Opp Now exclusive.
Read MoreThree California economics professors (with the Hoover Institution and the Mises Institute). Three perspectives on cultivating better economists in the next generation—not students who just regurgitate models and, you know, progressive talking points. An Opp Now exclusive.
Read MoreDr. Tabia Lee was ousted from De Anza College in 2023 for daring to disagree on critical DEI. But isn't the Diversity orthodoxy all about amplifying minoritized voices? Or is its concern for race a facade—for something more dangerous than mere lecture cancellations? An Opp Now exclusive.
Read MoreLocal political commentator Denise Kalm digs into Mountain View's upcoming University Basic Income (UBI) plan, and finds (not surprisingly) that previous cities' experiments give users a near-term pop but zero long-term improvement. An Opp Now exclusive.
Read MoreLongtime SJ political-watcher Richard Davenport writes from NYC to note some parallels between local political wunderkinds Anthony Tordillos in SJ and NYC's Zohran Mamdani. An Opp Now exclusive.
Read MoreMost higher ed institutions require a hefty applicant package: essays, recommendations, grades, interviews, etc. But University of Austin prof and statistician David Puelz thinks biased local colleges might want to rethink that—he lays out some compelling data, below, including what one metric is likely the most valuable for admissions. An Opp Now exclusive.
Read MoreIf the cancel culture phenomenon is a snowball effect (starting with recruiting one coercive professor), how can we stop the snow in the first place? According to free speech advocates David Puelz and Elizabeth Weiss, it’ll take hiring centered on quality scholarship; high academic standards for students; and perhaps a smaller, tighter university. An Opp Now exclusive.
Read MoreIn addition to getting their facts all wrong in their protests against Mayor Mahan's homelessness plans, local far-left groups extended a longstanding trend of invoking violent and bullying conventions in their misguided advocacy. An Opp Now exclusive.
Read MoreWhen universities keep hiring ideological “mini-me’s” and pressure all other faculty to keep their mouths shut, discourse becomes toxic; faculty and their research grow out-of-touch; and students get unknowingly indoctrinated into the fold. An Opp Now exclusive. With SJSU prof emeritus Elizabeth Weiss and UATX prof David Puelz.
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