The financial return to education is fiendishly hard to quantify for a host of legitimate reasons, including limited data availability and the need to account for unobservable counterfactuals. But it is also difficult because of cloudy thinking such as misinterpretations, survivorship bias, and faulty assumptions. The best example of misinterpretation concerns the decades-long run of […]
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A tremendous injustice is taking place in health care education, and most people are entirely unaware of it. Today, almost four years since the COVID pandemic began, nearly all U.S. medical students, nursing students, and students training in other health care fields are still being forced to choose between accepting continual booster doses of the […]
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The New York Times recently unveiled a fascinating shift in the landscape of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) programs. Instead of the overt focus on race and gender representation, a new trend of rebranding is emerging. Now, we see the rise of more innocuous-sounding initiatives like “culture surveys” and “performance training.” While opponents should rightfully […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from National Review’s article titled “Yale University Decides It Needs Better Students Again,” published on February 22, 2024. To delve deeper into the article, please click here. Earlier this month, Dartmouth College announced it was reinstating its SAT/ACT requirement for all applicants to the class of 2029, after a four-year […]
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America appears to be undergoing a cultural revolution, and explanations as to how we got here abound. In 2023, Christopher Rufo published America’s Cultural Revolution, in which he traced the origins of this revolution back to leftist activists such as Herbert Marcuse and his favorite student, Angela Davis. That same year, Xi Van Fleet published […]
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The nation’s 250 Anniversary is only 29 months away. The National Association of Scholars is commemorating the events that led up to the Second Continental Congress officially adopting the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. This is the third installment of the series. Find the second installment here. Because he has sought to “destroy the […]
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by The College Fix on February 21, 2024 and is crossposted here with permission. The University of Florida employs one administrator for every four undergrad students, according to an analysis by The College Fix. The Fix analyzed data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System and found the public university in Gainesville added 1,000 new […]
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by The American Mind on February 15, 2024 and is crossposted here with permission. Utah is prepared to revolutionize higher education. On January 15, 1987, Jesse Jackson led a demonstration of 500 students at Stanford University chanting “Hey, hey, ho, ho, Western Civ has got to go.” Today, 37 […]
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Today is George Washington’s birthday, the original inspiration for what we now know as Presidents’ Day. The holiday was shifted from February 22 to the third Monday of February under the 1971 Uniform Monday Holiday Act, aimed at giving the nation’s workers more three-day weekends—just what bureaucrats need. But I wonder, do college students know […]
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by The American Postliberal on January 29, 2024 and is crossposted here with permission. An alumna of Saint Mary’s School in Oregon reflects on her time studying at a CCP “Confucius Classroom.” Oregon is consistently ranked among the worst performing states in the nation for K-12 education. Dwindling graduation rates […]
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Once upon a time, long, long ago, in a land that now seems alien to us, sexual segregation was the order of the day. There were men’s bathrooms, and there were women’s bathrooms, and never the twain would meet. Dormitories at colleges were separated by gender. Strictly so. Some were for males; others were for […]
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In 1989, the Supreme Court ruled in County of Allegheny v. American Civil Liberties Union that a nativity scene donated to the courthouse by a local Roman Catholic organization displayed with the words Gloria in Excelsis Deo (Glory to God in the Highest) was a violation of the Establishment Clause because it violated a section […]
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In January 2024, Minding the Campus reported that the University of Illinois Springfield firmly ditched its “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) audit, which found that the university “fail[ed] to adequately address a rape case” involving one of its recruiters. Colleagues have contacted us about a similar situation at the University of Tennessee Knoxville (UTK), the […]
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Editor’s Note: This article, originally published on Spiked on February 9, 2024, has been revised to incorporate additional insights and perspectives not previously featured in the Spiked version. The recent regulatory changes of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) have drastically deviated from the original intent of the law—to provide present-day federally […]
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Give credit where credit is due. The campus lefties are now whining, and they are doing an excellent job of it. Nay, superlative. What is the complaint? It is that elected state officials, governors, and legislators are sticking their snouts where they do not belong. Namely, they have the audacity to dictate what should and […]
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“Thinking is not a matter of making definitions in one place, classifying things in another, inferring in a third, and making practical judgments in some fourth place. How these activities are organically related to each other and to the use of language, a systematic exposition of the nature of thinking should make clear.” — Arthur […]
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by The Free Press on January 16, 2024 and is crossposted here with permission. After I stated banal facts about human biology, I found myself caught in a DEI web, without the support to do the job I loved. The only way out was to leave… Since early December, the […]
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My former French professor imparted this message to the class: college is the time to be selfish. Travel, drink, have plenty of sex. She was exceptionally cool, I thought. But, looking back, her advice couldn’t have been more misguided for young men and women. “Situationship,” “friends with benefits,” “you up babe”—these are the trendy phrases […]
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by Reason on February 2, 2024 and is crossposted here with permission. The bursting of the higher education bubble has finally struck its first blow, and it is a serious one. Several major public universities have announced multimillion dollar budget cuts in January, citing enrollment declines among other factors. Pennsylvania State University expects to cut […]
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Author’s Note: The cover image for this article was created using Text-to-Image artificial intelligence. The prompt was: “Capture the essence of an ethnically diverse student study group, males and females, wide-eyed and immersed in their bedroom, surrounded by books and study materials. The room should exude a sense of curiosity and innocence. A chatbot genie […]
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by Law & Liberty on February 9, 2024 and is crossposted here with permission. Is the future of the National Football League’s Super Bowl linked with the future of American democracy? The Super Bowl may seem to some like an overly commercialized sports championship game, but it holds considerable cultural significance. […]
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One of the premier universities in America—the Massachusetts Institute of Technology—is engaging in blatant sex discrimination and few, if any, are paying attention. But the organization FairAdmissions@MIT is paying attention and we plan to hold MIT accountable for illegally violating Title IX’s prohibition of sex discrimination. When Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972 […]
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by RealClear Wire on February 1, 2024 and is crossposted here with permission. Historians and the general public regularly rank Abraham Lincoln as America’s greatest president. There is little doubt that he is widely admired for the work he did to end slavery and preserve the Union. But beyond […]
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by National Association of Scholars on February 9, 2024 and is crossposted here with permission. We recently learned that Michael Schwartz passed away on January 2nd at age 86. Michael held the distinction of being the only member of the National Association of Scholars to have served as president of […]
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Recent revelations of suspicious, unattributed text borrowings at academe’s pinnacle of prestige—the president’s office at Harvard University—once again draws attention to the pestilence of plagiarism. Plagiarism scandals among elites are nothing new, of course, and pop up frequently in the news both here and abroad, often with serious negative consequences for the accused.[1] Of course, […]
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Author’s Note: Dedicated to Alicia Cerezo “Rara temporum felicitas ubi sentire quae velis et quae sentias dicere licet.” —Tacitus, Historiae, 1.1 “I don’t like belonging to another person’s dream.” —Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, VIII There is a quick and easy way, I say, to introduce young readers to the political allegory of Lewis Carroll’s […]
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We are approaching the beginning of the two most important months in athletics in a sports-crazed nation. Between now, approaching February 11’s Super Bowl—where even speculation about the appearance of one of the player’s girlfriend is generating huge attention—in Las Vegas and April 8’s National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) Basketball Championship game in Phoenix, Americans […]
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by Real Clear Wire on January 19, 2024 and is crossposted here with permission. At the dawn of 2024, the United States is embroiled in a heated discussion over what constitutes antisemitism. In the wake of the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks launched by Hamas against targets in Israel, and the […]
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The recently released College Cost Reduction Act (CCRA) improves the financial aid system. The determination of a student’s financial aid eligibility involves two key components: the Student Aid Index (SAI) and the Cost of Attendance (CoA). The SAI represents the government’s estimate of what a student—and their parents if the student is dependent—can afford to contribute […]
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Harvard recently submitted an obfuscated and unsigned summary of its plagiarism “review process” to Representative Virginia Foxx’s congressional committee, Committee for Education and the Workforce. The document is a mishmash of the terms: “investigation,” “inquiry,” and “assessment.” Harvard had previously circulated a draft of an interim policy on research misconduct. There is no indication of […]
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