Indoctrinate U. Was It Fair? Round II
…locations since. Peter Berkowitz, writing in The Wall Street Journal, called Indoctrinate U a “riveting documentary about the war on free speech and individual rights waged by university faculty and…
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How Mismatches Devastate Minority Students
…order such as Albany Law School, the University of Maryland, Santa Clara University, the University of Tennessee, and West Virginia University. On the other hand, a student who fails or…
Indoctrinate U. Was It Fair? An Exchange
…the way, the Campus Free Speech Movement got killed by university regulations.” Actually, the Free Speech Movement got started because of university repression, and the fight continues to this day,…
Charlotte Allen Joins Minding The Campus
…at the Catholic University of America. All would be well-advised to read “Death By Political Correctness”, her excellent account of the end of Antioch College, from The Weekly Standard last…
Academic Gibberish And The Hermeneutics Of Mistrust
…disproportionate share of their political donations to left-leaning candidates. A recent study of donations by faculty at Princeton University during the current Presidential election season shows that every faculty donation…
A Department Of Hillbilly Studies?
Today’s university seems obsessively compassionate about the downtrodden, far more than the usual academic Marxist celebration of exploited workers. Entire departments – African American Studies, Women’s Studies, Queer Studies, Latino/a…
Columbia Paper Invites ROTC Return?
…in the eyes of countless university administrations. ROTC’s most prominent university advocate is gone, and elite universities show little sign of ending their unremitting hostility to the program. Those Columbia…
A Conservative Hate Crime Hoax
…known conservatives immediately denounced the university or the left in general for not reacting quickly to the threats. There’s a grain of truth in this. Princeton’s security did not investigate…
A Donkey At Berkeley
…well-understood purpose for the university. In the past – some distant, imprecise past – all activities were ancillary to teaching, including research and publication. Today, however, the university’s purpose is…
Tufts Likes Free Speech, Sort Of…
…threat in the future. Most other schools back down or get beaten.” The issue is the university’s finding that the student journal The Primary Source was guilty of harassment and…
Donors – Remember Princeton
…sever their foundation from Princeton University control. As for Princeton, an article that appeared in the Daily Princetonian in October stated that the university had, so far, committed $22 million…
Columbia Buys Off a Strike
Five students drinking Gatorade and water for a week are apparently all it takes to bring a major university to its knees. Columbia has had more than its share of…
National Arts And Humanities Medals Awarded
…opened new frontiers in cataloguing and preserving ideas and documents for future generations. Ruth R. Wisse, for her scholarship and teaching that have illuminated Jewish literary traditions. Her insightful writings…
Where Was The Faculty?
A lot has been written about the details of the residential life program at the University of Delaware, and the ways in which it has bullied students and residential assistants…
Brainwashing 101
More on indoctrination at the University Of Delaware. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) sent Patrick Harker, the president of the University, a voluminous set of papers on…
The Spiraling Cost Of Higher Education
…California and the California State University – to determine future pay increases of university executives in meetings that would be open to the public. “This bill is simply intended to…
Educating for Citizenship at Brown University: An Essay In Honor Of Allan Bloom
Brown University has been described as providing “the worst education in America.” Brown’s New Curriculum, far from requiring that students read a list of Great Books, has no core of…
Do Rich White Kids Win With Affirmative Action?
…elite university will have to be rejected. That student will still go to college, of course, but at one of his “backup” schools. Do those outcomes matter very much? No….
“Why Was I Unfit?”
…a good deal of that with my academic friends. I found a position in the business school of a well-known Midwestern university. In my first semester I was asked what…
College Admissions, Let’s Not Break The Law
David Leonhardt, an economics columnist for the New York Times, recently visited the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and took a careful look at the current admissions process…
Bloomsday
…The book was an astonishing best-seller on the misdirection of the University, and the Center for the American University has assembled Robert George, Mark Steyn, Roger Kimball, Peter Berkowitz, Gary…
Third Place – Bloom Essay Competition
…come to the university yearning for that je ne sais quoi that will complete them. There are even those who, like myself, came to the university eager to push through…
First Place – Bloom Essay Competition
…odds with various factions, attitudes, and opinions within society, the crisis of philosophy in liberal democracy today is that the institution that had become its last home, the university, has…
The Perils Of Fake History
…so into the foreseeable future. It was this same attitude to the politicisation of history that most troubled the University of Colorado’s committee of inquiry. In its review of the…
Another College Aid Boondoggle?
…realistically, there is no chance in the foreseeable future for proposals for the federal government to spend less lavishly on student financial aid or for Americans in significant number to…
The Unseriousness of Freshman Summer Reading
…but their unseriousness. This year, Southern Methodist University assigned How to Be Good by Nick Hornby – you know, a “hilarious contemporary novel.” The University of Texas-Arlington assigned Art Spiegelman’s…
Give Everyone A “D”
…form of government: A. direct democracy B. populism C. indirect democracy D. oligarchy E. aristocracy The survey, conducted by the University of Connecticut’s department of public policy, generally found that…
Harvard Wins Hip-Hop Scholar, Is Unsure What Military History Is.
…Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham said that the change of leadership in the University was one factor that made Morgan and Bobo’s return possible. University President Drew G. Faust contacted the couple…
Administrative Orthodoxy At Ave Maria
…proclaimed his intention of creating an orthodox Catholic University, and his critics despise the thought. Monaghan’s truly revolutionary step here isn’t imagining a university – it’s that he hasn’t simply…
What Happened to Antioch?
Antioch is no more. The venerable college is closing its doors this fall. Antioch University – which has other operations – will continue, but its flagship college is finished. Its…