…judge George C. Paine committed misconduct by holding membership in “Belle Meade,” a 110-year-old social club in Nashville (664 F.3d 332, In re Complaint of Judicial Misconduct). The panel concluded…
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…
…law schools rather than the network they create. If law schools compete for rank as institutions, they are competing over non-law categories through corporate branding, which is a device of…
…in our community and everywhere. . . . We would like to share with you the following commentary from a member of our community on the topic of this week’s…
…Budweiser Clydesdales are a common theme in their commercials), the commercials in general have devolved into what seems to be a competition for the most sensational. In the past, there…
…counterparts for college enrollment and associate degrees in 1978, bachelor’s degrees in 1982, master’s degrees in 1986, and later doctor’s degrees in 2006 and first-professional degrees in 2015. Women now…
…to push back against liberal hegemony, but not if the platform becomes home only to the right. Sensible conservatives have long demanded from social media companies a commitment to free…
Republicans on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce released the College Cost Reduction Act, which proposes a wide range of changes to higher education. Much is in the…
…the problem this way in 1988: We believe that counselors are on the bubble, that they are in the midst of intense and aggressive competition with other special services and…
The higher education community awaited a Supreme Court decision regarding campus admissions with great anxiety. After the Court issued Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. Presidents and Fellows of Harvard…
…gain access to the form reported that they weren’t able to complete the application before being shut out. Financial aid expert Mark Kantrowitz “said the site was more than frustrating—it…
…holder. But that behavior is plainly accepted practice by the computing community (as demonstrated by its Turing award to Dongarra), and therefore cannot be considered “research misconduct” within that community,…
…on their application, Johns Hopkins asks, “Tell us about an aspect of your identity (e.g. race, gender, sexuality, religion, community, etc.) or a life experience that has shaped you as…
…strength in higher education comes from its competitiveness and diversity—we have had thousands of different institutions competing for students by offering widely varying educational options. The ED has lamentably worked…
…in the house, so I don’t really care about the Grinch or Rudolph, but I read the Peanuts comic strips and grew up with Charles Schultz’s interpretation of the Christmas…
…even a mediocre “scholar,” particularly one from an under-represented or marginalized group, can quickly build a credible academic record to gain tenure, serve on university committees—especially tenure committees—and rapidly move…
…he published in Germany, not to mention the art and book exhibitions he organized, in the 1930s and 1940s. Given the complete absence of scholarly credentials in his application, one…
…successfully targeted and suppressed conservative non-profits, and former Commissioner John Koskinen later stonewalled Congress and “destroyed evidence subject to subpoena.” The Biden Department of Education (ED) now appears to be…
…that the reproducibility reformers committed some methodological errors of their own! However, the fact that the researchers chose which of their studies to put forward for replication gives some pause…
…(ED) was implementing the plan. After the plan was announced in August 2022, the ED started accepting applications for forgiveness in October 2022. When the courts suspended the plan in…
…AI can supersede these silos. All communication within each and every discipline—whether mathematical symbols, human language, research reports, publications, lectures, designs, plans, robotics, image generation, speech recognition, computer vision, and…
…activist committed to forming dominant political ideology—and such a commitment requires control of language. True free speech and intellectual heterodoxy threaten progressive political philosophy. When competitive and conservative speech flourishes…
…organizations backtracked from participating in the coalition. However, many, including the main organizer, Harvard’s Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSC), have remained defiant, criticizing American media outlets for pushing “misinformation” about…
…your schools’ heavy investment in the rhetoric and policies of the diversity-equity-inclusion (DEI) movement as well. Prioritizing racial identity and racial grievances are seen by the wider community as among…
…compensatory structures serves as a kind of mental map for how to proceed. It’s based on the philosophical concept of “intersectionality.” If oppression is so deeply structural and thereby present…
…events to understand that such a commitment is not normal. In fact, campus-normal is when students rally for Hamas or when professors take scissors to anti-hostage posters. https://twitter.com/canarymission/status/1721565606170787939?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1721565606170787939%7Ctwgr%5E0a1e4edac34b015a8fe83df9c366479d7ed2123e%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.campusreform.org%2Farticle%2Fvideo-report-upenn-prof-takes-scissors-against-israeli-hostage-posters%2F24325 But I…
…burned enemy combatants alive in cages, and gang raped and then murdered “infidel” girls and women. This is strong evidence of the truth of my description of Middle Eastern politics….
…and workplaces. In August, six professors from the California Community Colleges (CCC) system, represented by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), sued their employer for compelling them to…
…the United States recognized the independence of the former Spanish colonies in 1820. Photo by Rafael Leão on Unsplash Inserted photo by Grete Stern – http://www.me.gov.ar/efeme/jlborges/1951-1960.html, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4529935…
…dedicated “Search Committee Diversity Advocate.” It also asks search committees to list when its “chair and/or members attend[ed] one of the seven ‘Searching for Inclusive Excellence’ workshops,” and to give…