Pope Center on Academic Integrity

Sherryl Kleinman, in the Independent Weekly, referred to the John W. Pope Center for Higher Education
as a group that mocks and disparages UNC’s efforts to “respect ethnic,
gender, and sexual diversity and to create a more inclusive scholarly
community.”  The Center’s Director, George Leef responded
by saying that an intellectually solid curriculum has no place for
quotas for specific groups, whether they are gender or ethnically
related.  A truly strong curriculum does not segregate based on
author, but only by the merit of its content.  Such a philosophy
would do much to improve the status of higher education; that is if
university leadership wasn’t afraid of a faculty coup d’état, similar to the one that ousted Harvard President Lawrence Summers.  George comments on this as well, on Forbes online.