{"id":2213687,"date":"2024-04-05T10:14:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T14:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/incentives-on-campus-start-to-change\/"},"modified":"2024-04-05T10:14:28","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T14:14:28","slug":"incentives-on-campus-start-to-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/incentives-on-campus-start-to-change\/","title":{"rendered":"New Incentive Programs Emerge on College Campuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fincentives-on-campus-start-to-change%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2213687&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Heather Gerken, the Dean of Yale Law School, \u2062excitedly announced \u200cGarrett West&#8217;s appointment \u2063as a new tenure-track professor. West&#8217;s background includes clerkships for prominent\u200b jurists. Gerken voiced \u200bher happiness \u200bat\u2063 West joining the faculty in a public statement, signaling a \u2064shift in campus incentives towards embracing\u2064 ideological diversity. This move follows a period of controversy\u2064 and challenges for Gerken, impacting her leadership at Yale Law School.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><figcaption> \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\tHeather Gerken (Harold Shapiro\/Yale Law School)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>We couldn&#8217;t help but smile when we saw Yale Law School dean Heather Gerken announce the school&#8217;s new tenure-track professor, Garrett West. A former law clerk for Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito, Judge Thomas Griffith of the D.C. Circuit, and Judge Diarmuid O&#8217;Scannlain of the Ninth Circuit, West is\u2026 a conservative?<\/p>\n<p>Gerken <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GerkenHeather\/status\/1775504949541023878?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">says<\/a> she is &#8220;completely delighted that Garrett is joining our community.&#8221; Those must have been hard words for her to write.<\/p>\n<p>On the one hand, it is nice to see that the incentives on campus are changing, and that administrative pole-climbers like Gerken, who is <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/the-yale-law-school-dean-who-presided-over-the-trap-house-scandal-is-now-under-consideration-to-be-the-universitys-next-president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gunning for a promotion from law school dean to Yale president<\/a>, now feel the need to demonstrate they have a care for ideological diversity.<\/p>\n<p>For Gerken, the move comes in the wake of three years of self-inflicted wounds. Long before the events of Oct. 7, Gerken was teaching a master&#8217;s level clinic in what happens when elite universities foster an oppressive ideological monoculture. The <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/a-yale-law-student-sent-a-lighthearted-email-inviting-classmates-to-his-trap-house-the-school-is-now-calling-him-to-account\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">specter of Yale Law School administrators<\/a> describing a law student&#8217;s membership in the Federalist Society as &#8220;triggering&#8221; to his classmates and demanding a public apology from him for using the term &#8220;trap house&#8221; should cast a long shadow over her career. So too should the image of students, in violation of the law school&#8217;s code of conduct, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/hundreds-of-yale-law-students-disrupt-bipartisan-free-speech-event\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shouting down a panel<\/a> <i>on free speech<\/i> without facing consequences of any kind.<\/p>\n<p>West&#8217;s arrival in New Haven is a start, but Yale Law School has a long way to go. There are other signs, however, that the incentives on campus are changing for the better.<\/p>\n<p>Stanford University on Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/news.stanford.edu\/report\/2024\/04\/04\/stanford-alum-business-school-dean-jonathan-levin-named-stanford-president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> that Jonathan Levin will be its next president. Levin, who has led Stanford&#8217;s Graduate School of Business for the past several years and before that served as the chairman of its economics department, is an accomplished scholar who has distinguished himself in the field of economics. On that ground alone, he is a departure from administrators in the mold of former Harvard president Claudine Gay.\t<\/p>\n<p>And finally, Columbia University, whose president Minouche Shafik will testify later this month on Capitol Hill, is investigating the students who participated last month in a terrorist confab. While the students are <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/columbia-group-behind-resistance-101-event-urges-members-to-stonewall-university-investigation-as-school-promises-disciplinary-action-for-refusal-to-cooperate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">scheming among themselves<\/a> about how to frustrate that probe, a spokeswoman for the university told the <i>Free Beacon<\/i>, &#8220;The University is instituting disciplinary action against those who do not cooperate with the investigation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The sane, sober, and sensible among us\u2014parents, alumni, students, and donors\u2014should not despair. There are glimmers of hope in this fight to restore sanity to American college campuses.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heather Gerken, Dean of Yale Law School, delightedly introduced Garrett West as the school&#8217;s new tenure-track professor. West, formerly a law clerk for Justices Alito and Griffith, as well as Judge O&#8217;Scannlain, brings a wealth of experience to the role. His appointment marks an exciting addition to the academic team at Yale Law School<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":2213688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/gerken_convocation17-e1637196610738.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2213687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/gerken_convocation17-e1637196610738.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2213687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2213688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2213687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2213687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2213687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}