[This piece also appeared in the San Francisco Examiner] Robert (Bob) Dynes is president of the University of California (UC) – and has been in that position since October, 2003. During my tenure as a member of the Board of Regents of UC, I worked with Bob while he was chancellor of the campus at […]
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What do news outlets have to say about the Dartmouth Trustee fracas? Dartmouth News “Dartmouth Trustees Vote to Strengthen College’s Governance” New York Times “Dartmouth Expands Board, Reducing Role of Alumni” New York Sun “Dartmouth Guts Power of Competitively Elected Trustees” Let me just suggest that one of these is less accurate than the others; […]
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The Supreme Court’s Morse v. Frederick decision was questionable on several grounds. In upholding a high school’s right to regulate student speech “reasonably regarded as encouraging illegal drug use,” the justices took the student banner “Bong Hits for Jesus” much too seriously. Was it an argument for student access to drugs or a jokey stunt […]
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Peter Berkowitz appears today in the Wall Street Journal writing on “Our Compassless Colleges.” At universities and colleges throughout the land, undergraduates and their parents pay large sums of money for — and federal and state governments contribute sizeable tax exemptions to support – “liberal” education. This despite administrators and faculty lacking, or failing to […]
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