Campus Protests Sweeping China Spread to U.S.
"China’s strict zero-COVID policy, still in effect nearly three years into the pandemic, has become a lightning rod for criticism of the government. University campuses have been at the vanguard of these public displays of dissent, which gained momentum after an apartment fire Thursday in the northwestern city of Urumqi killed 10 people who many say could have been saved if not for strict lockdown measures." – Inside Higher Ed, 11/30/22
How Our Higher-Education System Could Put Students First
"In short, colleges and universities do not put their students first. That is the point of a recent book by Paul LeBlanc, president of the University of Southern New Hampshire. In Students First: Equity, Access, and Opportunity in Higher Education, LeBlanc explains why our higher-education system so badly underperforms and why we need an educational 'ecosystem' in its place." – James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal, 11/30/22
Higher Ed Groups Push for Permanent DACA Fix
"A host of higher education associations, institutional leaders and advocates are calling on Congress to pass legislation this year to provide protections for recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. ... Members of the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration are flying to Washington, D.C., this week to meet with lawmakers and make their case." – Inside Higher Ed, 11/30/22
U of Calif. Academic Workers Reach Deal; Strike Continues
"Postdoctoral scholars and academic researchers across the University of California system reached tentative contract deals Tuesday, 15 days into an ongoing strike that has severely challenged campus operations, including instruction. News of the deals came several days after more than 230 professors in the system pledged publicly not to teach or submit grades during the strike." – Inside Higher Ed, 11/30/22
Why doesn’t the Education Department collect racial data on college applicants?
"James Murphy, senior policy analyst at think tank Education Reform Now, in a new report calls for the U.S. Department of Education to take on this task. He argues the Education Department should ask more granular questions about applicants and admitted students, like their race and ethnicity, in an annual survey administered to colleges." – Higher Ed Dive, 11/29/22
Stanford Is Investigating Its Own President Over Research-Misconduct Allegations
"Stanford University’s board of trustees is overseeing an investigation into the university’s president, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, over allegations that neurobiology papers that he co-authored contain multiple manipulated images, a university spokeswoman told The Chronicle on Tuesday night." – Chronicle of Higher Education, 11/29/22
College completion rates stall at 62.3%, report finds
"The six-year completion rate for undergraduates who started college in 2016 reached 62.3%, the highest level this decade but only 0.1 percentage point above the previous year’s cohort, according to a new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center." – Higher Ed Dive, 11/29/22
The Zombie Survival of Affirmative Action
"The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule against affirmative action programs this term, finding they violate the Constitution because they deliberately discriminate by race. If you think that ruling will stop universities from treating racial groups differently, think again. Admissions officers are already hard at work figuring out ways to evade the forthcoming decision." – RealClearPolitics, 11/29/22
Ohio State President Kristina Johnson plans to leave after less than 3 years
"Ohio State University President Kristina Johnson will step down after commencement in May, ending her tenure after less than three years at the 67,772-student Big Ten institution. The Columbus Dispatch reported Monday that the university’s board of trustees asked Johnson to step down after an outside firm reviewed concerns raised by staff." – Higher Ed Dive, 11/29/22
The Decline of Higher Education
"If we fast forward to the present, one feature of what’s happening on the campuses looks similar: that crucial analytical function is still getting stifled whenever it offends an equally shallow local moralism. But there’s a startling difference: the actors have changed places. It’s now the professors who do what the small-minded small-town worthies used to do ... " – City Journal, 11/29/22
Thanks for finally writing about >Why Won’t the Media Review the Campus Rape
Book? | Minding The Campus <Loved it!
“MTC didn’t expect The New York Times to review it since The Times rarely reviews conservative books.”
It’s not a conservative book.
But why should it be reviewed?
For a True Believer there is no possible purpose which is served by reviewing such a work. They already know that the “Due Process” nonsense exists only as a tool of the Patriarchy, an artifact of the Neo- Colonialist, Hegemonic, Misogynistic Power which assaults Womyn by the very fact of its deeply embedded, systemic, and unavoidably perverse oppression.
For a True Believer, sex is rape.
As Bruce Bawer notes in his comprehensive work, The Victim’s Revolution, quoting Andrea Nye’s statement in Words of Power: logic is a tool of male oppression. So why would any True Believer even bother to glance at a logical, scholarly work (by two male rape apologists) which through its defense of Due Process thereby defends Rape & the continuing oppression of Womyn??
Why listen when they’re not telling me what I already know is true?
The sad thing is that this really isn’t a “conservative” book. The authors are not conservatives. They’re writing in a vein that used to be mainstream liberal — an abuse of civil rights by overreaching government officials. Thirty years ago, a book like this would have been celebrated by civil libertarians as an expose of injustice. But now that “liberalism” has completely embraced the notion that we’re in a “rape culture” on college campuses, a book that argues against it has to be shunned.
This illustrates the pathetic decline of liberalism into a crusade for power no matter how badly it tramples on truth and individual rights.
I’d be happy to read the book and interview the authors, but no one contacted me about it. Perhaps that’s because conservative publishers target conservative media. After all, I wrote a book about Donald Trump and it hasn’t gotten any reviews in the mainstream media, and certainly not in the conservative media. How many liberal books has Minding the Campus reviewed? There is certainly a problem where people live in self-created media bubbles, but it’s a problem that crosses all ideologies.
You’re right, Minding the Campus should review left leaning (and right leaning) books.
I’m glad to review it too-not that anyone cares. What media/academic institution do you represent that anyone should care?
The commenter quoted has it mostly right, but not in one crucial respect. The weapon would be useless without willing and eager hands within the universities to wield it. Those hands are more responsible for fashioning the weapon than the hands of the bureaucrats.
Unless and until the actions of the university bias response teams and other faculty and staff dedicated to the proposition that all men are created toxic are correctly understood in Nietzschean terms as will to power, works like Johnson’s and Taylor’s will be ineffective. These people are going to have to be driven from the universities; they will not be argued out of their entrenchments.
I have an eight year old son who shares my dual Canadian / US citizenship. While we are a multiple Ivy league degree household, we will likely look north to Canadian schools for my son’s university education.
While Canadian schools have some of the same social issues challenging US students, they don’t cost tens of thousands of dollars per year. McGill University, ranked higher than most US institutions, costs less than $1,800 US per year for tuition for Quebec residents. You also have far less emphasis on identity politics, and their related personal and dollar costs.
Finally, Canadian schools are far more interested in academic merit-based admissions as the means to limit student populations. US schools often charge more money to set the bar on who can attend, with or without debt, unless the student is a star athlete which in the end does more for the sports program than the individual.
The way we look at it, US schools have become exceedingly expensive day-care facilities and diluted the value and rigor of a university education. We won’t pay for it if we don’t have to.
Have you ever watched Dr. Janice Fiamengo’s posts on YouTube? If you haven’t, you should. Also, Dr. Jordan Peterson’s posts…