The Garden of College Excellence Is Growing Weeds
…him. This book could not be more timely. The cascade of campus contretemps over academic values and due process in recent years seems relentless. A partial list would include student…
…him. This book could not be more timely. The cascade of campus contretemps over academic values and due process in recent years seems relentless. A partial list would include student…
…had bombarded the comments sections of college publications and run campaigns to handle racist professors, demand black student spaces on campus, and prove the lack of support for black students.”…
…students shoplifting, but it was a problem that had nothing to do with race. Students at Oberlin generally understood the situation. The student newspaper, the Oberlin Grape, reported in a…
…two friends fled the store with the proprietor in pursuit. The arrests of the students prompted protests by other Oberlin students suggesting that the shoplifters were innocent (they weren’t) and…
…The response of student communities to sexual violence among athletes has been really important.” Lhamon could have been referring to the expulsion of former Yale basketball captain Jack Montague—an event…
…have found that female high school students are four times as likely as male high school students to be the sole abuser of the other sex (5.7% vs. 1.4%). The…
…does it seem neutral for Yale professors to cancel or postpone classes so that students can protest in Washington. Having paid extraordinarily high tuition to attend Yale classes, many students…
…ultimately denied official recognition to the student group that had hosted the screening. Ironically, the student group’s name was “Students for Free Thought.” The screening at Lawrence University continued in…
…rush to give NYU Professor Avital Ronell a free pass for having harassed and sexually assaulted a gay graduate student. These four cases have received a fair amount of attention—to…
…their lives extremely unpleasant, aggressive student protesters drove the Christakises to resign their positions on the Yale faculty. Partially due to FIRE’s coverage, the protests became national news. Sleeper argued…
…since the students too were acting out of concern above all with Duke’s future. One student touchingly and perhaps inadvertently revealed that he viewed students and adults as two separate…
…by: National Lawyers Guild, Lewis & Clark Student Chapter Minority Law Student Association Women’s Law Caucus Immigration Student Group Jewish Law Society OutLaw Lewis & Clark Young Democratic Socialists of…
On February 21, many high school students across the country staged a brief walkout from their classes to protest school shootings. Grieving students at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School…
…in the current era has seen a fundamental shift in focus from the group to the individual. When a student protestor declares, I identify as…., the message is clearly a…
…establishment is convinced that the answer to its problems is, in effect, “more sheep.” If we can send every man, woman, and child to college and import enough international students…
…more difficult for university administrators to negotiate grants and contracts with the Foundation as progressive faculty and a growing number of students have become part of “the resistance movement” to…
…on free speech principles to all freshmen and transfer students. That the University not in any way discourage students or employees from expressing or harboring their own views when the…
Almost two years have passed since the Halloween imbroglio at Yale in 2015, which launched the current era of student mobilizations against speech that some students don’t want to hear….
…orientation among college students is a soft libertarianism that tolerates anything that doesn’t get in the way of the student’s preferred social activities. These students have no fondness for the…
…victims [the students] and more Trump carnage.” But, then, what had Napolitano and her administration done to students when they spent lavishly and hid money for their own use while…
…When one considers that females as both students and administrators often outnumber males on many college campuses, that at Ivy League and other elite institutions students identifying as Democrats often…
As Middlebury initiated what appears to be token punishments (single-term probation) for the students who disrupted the Charles Murray talk, the college’s student government (which has yet to condemn the…
…students who brought a complaint against me, these were not my students; these were students I didn’t even know. My own students—they have social concerns, but I don’t think, for…
…year included the demand that the student newspaper be used as a forum for making the DePaul community aware of issues facing students regarding multiculturalism, increase student aid and scholarship…
Photo: Erielle Davidson for The Daily Wire A few months ago, AEI’s student group at Middlebury College invited me to speak on the themes of Coming Apart and how they…
…in which a left-of-center editorial page would advance such a claim about students advocating for other students’ civil liberties? Beyond the choice of framing, both the Times (in a straight…
…protests, which also claimed that “white privilege” and white oppression were making existence impossible for black students and other favored victim groups. Black students at Bard College, for example, an…
…upsetting to many students. Relatedly, I’ve been receiving many emails in recent hours from students requesting to delay the exam due to associated serious stress,” the lecturer wrote to students….
…racism and overcoming the hostile learning environment for too many of our students, while creating spaces where all of our students can engage in meaningful ways. The professor-student relationship is…
…Joanne Jacobs pointed out that this definition of sexual harassment would effectively brand every student a sexual harasser (like a student asking another student out on a date). It also…