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November 29, 2002 [feather]
Inducting NoIndoctrination.org

NoIndoctrination.org, a new web site that catalogues student-written course reviews with the aim of exposing the problem of bias in higher education, has begun to attract the attention of mainstream media. During the past week, the San Francisco Chronicle and the Chronicle of Higher Education have both profiled the site, which was launched by Luann Wright after her son took a freshman writing course that was actually a course in racial sensitivity. The Chron piece in particular is a bit of a smear job, spending more time on professors' objections to the site than on the site's reason for existing and ending with the suggestion that the information gathered at NoIndoctrination.org is unreliable. NoIndoctrination.org has posted a rebuttal to that piece that deserves wide circulation.

Critical Mass first noticed this important new web site in early October and has since reported on the site's growing archive here and here.

UPDATE: Stanley Kurtz has written a long, eloquent, and balanced piece on NoIndoctrination.org.

posted on November 29, 2002 5:56 PM