Why the Arizona Civil Rights Initiative Was Needed
…exaggerated, that quotas are already illegal, and so forth. Not so. Admissions data obtained a couple of years ago from the University of Arizona and Arizona State University law schools…
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From Diversity to Sustainability
…the pollutions of the past to the cleanliness and efficiencies of the future. Both of them, he continues, “impose a general order” that extends across the campus to society at…
Don’t Pay Sticker Price for College
…family would pay more than $18,600 at Washington University. Instead of offering the steepest discount to the lowest-income group, Washington University provides its biggest price break to students from families…
ROTC Back in the News
…Harry R. Lewis, a former dean of Harvard College, noted in his influential book about the university, Excellence Without a Soul: How a Great University Forgot Education, the cold shoulder…
The Amazing College Debt Bubble
Teaching One Student Costs Only $1,456 A Year?
…the average university spends on everything per student. The nearly $75,000 at Wake Forest and the nearly $60,000 at Yale per student spent on administration must buy some truly excellent…
The Great Brain Race
…timely topic in a week when Yale and the National University of Singapore just announced a collaborative campus in Singapore. If interested in this global future, do take a look….
A New Law Student Protest: ‘Where’s My Job?’
…as self-interested entities, universities and colleges have not always been forthcoming with the truth—their moral and legal charters to “pursue truth” notwithstanding. One recalls how the University of California buried…
Why Remediation in College Doesn’t Work
In his recent speech at the University of Texas in Austin, President Obama expressed deep unhappiness that the United States is no longer the country with the highest percentage of…
ACTA & Its Critics
…future citizens capable of participating in the nation’s civic life? Apparently a vocational education is acceptable for the kind of non-Ivy League students that the AAC&U targets. I also suspect…
Who Pays the Hidden Cost of University Research?
…there larger purposes to public education? The University Budget There are two great missions of a first-rank public research university: -to provide top quality undergraduate education for all qualified students,…
Those Accountability Rules for Student Loans
…result, prospective students looking to choose a college do not have access to even the most basic facts about how their future income or debt burden may vary depending on…
The Curious Case of Dr. Howell
…could file complaints. But the University of Illinois hasn’t imitated CUNY’s policy, costing the school its first opportunity to refuse the controversy. A second chance was lost through the behavior…
Seeing Academic Repression Everywhere
…rather than as a contribution to the work and traditions of the university and the faculty.” If the traditions of her university and faculty was understood as activism and not…
How Diversity Punishes Asians, Poor Whites and Lots of Others
…of his formative years on university campuses like Harvard, Columbia, and the University of Chicago, where people with military experience are largely absent and the campus culture is often hostile…
Why U.S. Men’s Soccer Will Now Decline
…a men’s soccer team: Southern Methodist. Neither the University of Texas at Austin nor Texas A&M, both Division I schools, sponsor varsity soccer programs for men, although they do offer…
Why the Professor Still Can’t Teach
…are better undergraduate teachers because of it, according to Burton A. Weisbrod, economics professor at Northwestern University (also see Mission and Money, 2008). Never mind that in 2006 the magazine…
The Wolfers and Bastardizing Academic Freedom
…Peter Dreier (a distinguished professor of politics at Occidental College), Nelson Lichtenstein (a historian of 20th century U.S. history at UC Santa Barbara who directs the university’s Center for the…
Reshape Universities Because of “Stereotype Threat”?
…various authors, and the op-ed apparently endorses them). That future is important not only for the success of the university per se, but because “university campuses have a special role…
Mandatory Opinions on Public Campuses
…the preface to the university’s 2001 Diversity Action Plan established the focus of the university’s diversity efforts. This preface says: The committee (that developed the plan) . . . reaffirmed…
The Skewing of American History
…big-name public institutions are equally depressing: the University of Minnesota (20 percent); the University of North Carolina (21 percent); Indiana University (21 percent); the University of Maryland (17 percent). Iowa…
“Feelings” Education—It Starts in Ed School
…that his multiple books on education are found frequently on the syllabi in education schools, including the University of Texas, Georgia Southern University, and University of California Santa Cruz. In…
On Pigeons, Pells and Student Incentives
…in New York City. The luncheon, at the University Club, was sponsored by the Manhattan Institute’s Center for the American University and Minding the Campus. ——————————————————————————————————- “Is College Graduation Enough…
Why the Great Books Are the Answer
…The Dumbest Generation, and they are graduating from college or university ignorant of the knowledge that has been learned and accumulated over time, even ignorant of the reasons for the…
Why Do Anthropologists Have Their Own Foreign Policy?
…Martin Wiener, a Professor of History at Rice University observed in a comment at Inside Higher Ed.com, “the level of argument linking the two would surely have been given a…
You Don’t Have To Be A Professor
…the mind’ is by toiling in a graduate program reading obscure texts, then teaching and publishing papers and books on these works to secure a future in the academy. By…
America the Awful—Howard Zinn’s History
…purpose should be to encourage similar behavior today. Indeed, Zinn candidly said that history was not about “understanding the past,” but rather, about “changing the future.” That statement alone should…
Why So Few Conservative And Libertarian Professors?
…higher IQs of liberals, say Neil Gross of the University of British Columbia and Ethan Fosse of Harvard. Instead they suggest a theory of “path dependence” –few conservatives are attracted…
Affirmative Action—All This Turmoil For So Little?
…as well as future employers, clients, and patients; it fosters a victim mindset, removes the incentive for academic excellence, and encourages separatism; it compromises the academic mission of the university…
Does U.S. News Make Law Schools More Expensive?
…assume that students should pay for many cost intensive practices that are found in university life. The product they deliver, while it may be a good one, must be subject…
Hate-America Sociology
…foolish to remain optimistic about the future of this nation when millions of its most “educated” are systematically being taught to loathe it. ——————————————– A former member of the Board…