Betrayal of Liberty on Campus
…university. Some threats tried to curtail politically unpopular research. Others tried to restrict what students could say. The aim was always the same–to advance the censors’ political agenda by stifling…
…university. Some threats tried to curtail politically unpopular research. Others tried to restrict what students could say. The aim was always the same–to advance the censors’ political agenda by stifling…
…the 50,000-student University of Texas-Austin, and its technology-focused cousin in the Texas public system, the 49,000-student Texas A&M University in College Station. According to UT-Austin’s own website, UT-Austin’s annual budget…
…helping the Education Department decide whether the University of Phoenix is in compliance with new gainful employment rules. Both agencies, the IRS in particular, are bound by strict laws forbidding…
…case, Duke redid its campus sexual assault policies. Although the campus was home to the highest-profile case of a false criminal allegation in a decade, the university adjusted its procedures…
A growing chorus of critics says a college education is finished as the ticket to economic success and a middle-class life. The economy of the future, these critics suggest, actually…
…of the loans must begin is nine months after graduation – for many students, in the almost unimaginable future. Students didn’t realize that the burden of large student loans could…
Let’s face it, our noble efforts to detoxify today’s PC-infected university have largely failed and the future looks bleak. This is not to say that the problem is incurable–though it…
…politicians, and even students for the “decline of the American university,” Anderson observes, pointing fingers at them is, well, pointless. Ultimately, the only people with the authority to take action…
…$10 million to Oxford University. The gift will set up an institute at Oxford aimed at steering university economists away from support for free markets and deregulation, and in the…
…A performance, by the White Horse Singers, opened and closed the early morning address by Gwendolyn Pough of Syracuse University. The thousands of assembled English teachers stood and faced the…
…the privileged profs and the university accountants (none of whom would ever criticize the system, however much they profit from it), but what do we do about it? At a…
…in the past when these principles have been better observed than they are today, but our interest is in the future of the university, not its past. Thus I was…
…Tier-6s with 500 SATs (San Diego State University, East Carolina University, Kennesaw State); Tier-7s with 450 SATs (University of Bridgeport, William Penn University, Long Island University); and Tier-8s with 400…
By now, most people who follow either politics or higher education know the story of William Cronon. The University of Wisconsin professor published a lengthy post critiquing the policies of…
…group at the University of Maryland-Baltimore that was in effect silenced in 2007 when forced to move a graphic display on abortion to a remote part of campus. University officials…
…Kansas State University, for example, all the white players are on the path to graduation compared to 14% of the black players. To be sure, a few teams (e.g., University…
…former University of Virginia climate change scientist Michael Mann. Since the election, the focus has fallen more on evolutionary biologists. The National Center for Science Education reports that anti-evolution bills…
…out of our deepest ideological ruts. That is my vision for our bright post-partisan future. And here he is on religion: Surveys have long shown that religious believers in the…
…and admits that justifications for the humanities are internal to the work of the university and only make sense to other university colleagues and the elitists who read The New…
…universities that they were making a mistake in their rapid expansion to include professional schools and related departments. These essentially vocational extensions of the university, he argued, put at risk…
…“What’s new?” In his fascinating book, Weapons of Mass Instruction (2009), John Taylor Gatto cites a 2006 study conducted by the University of Connecticut that affirmed that college students weren’t…
…mutual expectation where professors ask students to do little and provide little in exchange. The modern university has evolved haphazardly over time to accommodate a huge variety of interests, functions,…
…Compare that with the Tamiment Center at New York University, which cares little for fairness, academic rigor or diversity of views. Its inaugural event four years ago, “Alger Hiss and…
…A report from the University of Southern California’s Center for Urban Education, according to an article in Inside Higher Ed, “embraces the idea that the United States must — for…
…child’s future opportunities and the economic future of a family’s future generations. According to published estimates, Princeton admits 41 percent of legacy applicants compared to just 9 percent of non-legacies….
…November had been larger and more violent; in London alone 52,000 university students took to the streets to demonstrate against the planned cuts in educational subsidies. On December 9 university…
…Harvard to the remotest of community colleges. What all the worrying is about, of course, isn’t the future of sustainability as a campus fad. It’s the future of sustainability as…
…sociologist, is what should be called the disposition or attitude of conservatism. Here the famous address “On Being Conservative” , delivered by Michael Oakeshott at the University of Swansea in…
…society. The future is not hard to predict. If current conditions prevail, the deflation of a bachelor’s degree will soon be accompanied by a corresponding inflation in the value of…
…Markie, chair of the APA’s Committee on the Status and Future of the Profession, declared ponderously that “[t]he future of Philosophy depends on the development of minority scholars [and] the…