A Small Act of Thievery in Vermont
…of its esteemed alumni (Calhoun) or former presidents (Princeton) may err in its judgment, but it acts within its rights. And whether that action is wise, at least it is…
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Jewish Students Face Hostility—Yet Sarah Lawrence Faculty Target Federal Oversight, Not Student Safety
…incidents, or the climate of intimidation many students now describe? The uncomfortable truth is that the dominant instinct is not leadership, but evasion. Faculty often retreat into abstraction, nuance, and…
A New Test for Free Speech
…on leave after being recorded saying it was “too bad” Kirk wasn’t dead. Fresno is not an outlier. Several universities have taken similar action against faculty who made harsh or…
NYU Cancels Federalist Society Free Speech Event—Then Reinstates It Following Backlash
…Fox News, the College Fix, and the Times of Israel voiced their criticism of NYU’s actions. Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) Special Counsel for Campus Advocacy Robert Shibley…
Are We Seeing the Beginning of the End of Campus Land Acknowledgements?
…far enough, arguing that they must be accompanied by “real action” on behalf of “Native groups.” In her view, the statements themselves are merely symbolic and therefore insufficient. Similarly, at…
A Plan to Restore Civics in Virginia
…be in curriculum—action civics, also known as “civic engagement” or “service learning,” the vocational training in progressive activism that pretends to be civics education. Action civics takes away scarce classroom…
Harvard’s Got an Ethics Problem
…of faculty members signed a letter calling the October 7 massacre “a military action” and “military response,” while professor Joseph Massad described it as a “resistance offensive” whose scenes he…
Universities Have a Logic Problem
…administrative action. This is either institutional opportunism or the reflection of an ideological agenda formed prior to the tragedy—an example of a cause in search of a reason. It is…
Oklahoma Should Build on 2024 Draft Social Studies Standards, Not Return to the Flawed 2019 Model
…3). These national organizations have redefined social studies to include large amounts of radical ideology, such as Critical Race Theory (CRT), have required action civics (which is vocational training for…
Why Universities Should Welcome (and Sign) Trump’s Compact
…country and their culture. Trump’s 2025 Actions In 2025, President Trump has so far issued 210 Executive Orders. Some fifty of them pertain to higher education, one measure of how…
College Students in a Romance Recession, Boys Blame ‘Hoeflation’
…As organizations, schools, and workplaces become majority female, they tend to prioritize empathy over rationality, cohesion over competition, and conflict avoidance over decisive action. These norms often conflict with the…
Reflections on What I Heard About Boomers at an Academic Summit
…into the fabric of American life: civil rights compliance, anti-poverty initiatives, affirmative action, educational sprawl, and an ever-ballooning administrative state. [RELATED: How a Generation Lost Its Common Culture] But utopia…
Teachers’ Unions Have an Out-of-Control Anti-Semitism Problem
…principals named Ginzburg and Rosenberg in Harlem.” The individual’s sentiments were reflected with action; around the same time, Jewish educators were being smeared as “exploiters” and even targeted with violent…
It Was a Gamble
…catching up. But Congress’s action is now remembered as the official birthdate of the U.S. Navy. Washington had commissioned the USS Hannah out of Marblehead, a four-gun schooner, in September…
Higher Education Can Survive Its Challenges, and AI Can Help, Says Academic Strategist
…I think educators have the expertise and the call to action to really help our students to look at how can I use it to actually further my education.” [RELATED:…
AAUP Declares Victory Over Trump’s ‘Thought Police,’ Promises To Protect Only the Right Kind of Free Speech
…as a weapon to advance one faction while ignoring others. What a Real Defense Would Look Like A genuine defense of academic freedom would look very different. It would begin…
Ten Books That Influenced This Economist
…not make substantive comments about each. Rather, I intend to personalize my impressions of each and indicate what they have meant to me. 1. Ludwig von Mises’s Human Action heads…
Florida Fought Leftist Indoctrination. So Why Is It Imposing It on Counselors?
…must recognize this contradiction and take immediate action. Here are three concrete steps the state should take: Prevent a CACREP Monopoly – CACREP has been advertising its accreditation for over…
The University of Southern California Should Embrace Trump’s Compact
…to attend, Kim has seen up close the downside of discrimination risk embedded in affirmative action. [RELATED: A Competency-Based-Education Fight in California Reveals the Limits of Top-Down Classroom Initiatives] For…
An Answer to an ‘Excruciating Question’
…crisis has so unsettled academia? The Supreme Court’s decision in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College (SFFA), which struck down affirmative action, was followed—according…
The Coming Jewish-Student ‘Brain Drain’
…moral decline, America should, in its own best interest, be concerned about the potential brain drain caused by pushing Jews out. History shows that that action has never ended well…
The Politics of an Anti-Woke Campus Op-Ed, Continued
Editor’s Note: This is a follow-up to an earlier article, “The Politics of an Anti-Woke Campus Op-Ed.” I previously wrote about the vitriolically partisan reaction to an open letter to…
‘Inclusive Excellence’—Rebranding DEI into a Participation Trophy
…not inclusive, but rather targeted at specific identities, marking a clear departure from basic DEI. And beyond simply admitting less qualified students, work documenting mismatch effects from affirmative action…
Trump Administration Says It Wants to Fight Racial Discrimination in College Admissions—Then Things Got Weird
…ago, the Supreme Court took cases about affirmative action in college admissions at Harvard and the University of North Carolina, which tended to privilege black and Hispanic applicants while disadvantaging…
Professors Have Much to Learn from This College Dropout
…conviction and action can sometimes carry greater weight than credentials. By challenging students to interrogate prevailing orthodoxies, he exposed how formal qualifications may insulate academics from criticism rather than inspire…
My Alma Mater Faces a Lawsuit After a Fraternity Beating Left a Pledge Unable to Walk
…lawsuit). Mississippi Today adds that officials were also informed about the specific abuse Joseph endured, but failed to take disciplinary action against those responsible. To be sure, this is not…
UChicago’s Management Crisis
…they react with irrational and hostile legal action against their primary capital provider: taxpayer-based federal funding. Imagine, if you will, a corporation suing one of its shareholders or primary bondholders…
Anti-Semitism Among Faculty and the University’s Betrayal
…dormitories, faculty members openly supported and endorsed the violent actions, calling for the physical harm of others. The shift wasn’t subtle anymore. Faculty who had been cordial for years now…
Berkeley Gives Trump 160 Names Tied to Campus Anti-Semitism, Prompting McCarthyism Comparisons
…Faculty Association, and a denouncement of Trump from Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom, who has opposed Trump’s action at universities for months. One of the key accusations leveled at the Trump…
Mamdani’s Anti-IHRA Stance Will Put Jewish Students at Risk
…release guides to help people understand some of the everyday anti-Semitic actions that sneak in under the banner of anti-Zionism. [RELATED: ‘Can Universities Take Anti-Semitism Seriously?’] Like equating anti-Semitism with…