He is at a public university -- UNC Wilmington. He has fought and recently won a very public and difficult battle to become tenured as a conservative who was clearly discriminated against in a liberal faculty. His outspoken columns have taken on the idiocies of political correctness on campuses across the nation. I believe this column uses a fictional type of student to discuss a point about whether to coddle young adult students or not.
I agree with your point about the typically politically correct response one might expect had Adams not won that battle so recently (and I believe the university is appealing). It's amazing to me to read the howls of pain by some of the other posters on here about Adams wanting such a fictional student to make the grade without extra help he has not earned a right to.
I did, however, attend one university whose collateral reading requirements were a bit out of touch with reality. Our definition of reading changed depending on the number of pages, given that there were anywhere from 4 to 5 other classes doing the same thing, and you had to ‘complete’ them all.
Reading became anything from perusing, to scanning to rifling through the pages. It all depended on how much time was left after all the required assignments and reading were completed.
I thought conservatives opposed tenure for teachers and favored evaluations, student grades, and student progress.