A Guide to the Perplexed
…of activists, often violent, who demand their self-defined rights, one of which is to take over the present and future destinies of your children. What most parents do not understand…
…of activists, often violent, who demand their self-defined rights, one of which is to take over the present and future destinies of your children. What most parents do not understand…
…University in 1995 to help start the University College branch. There, Dr. Buff built an evening program for working adults who aspired to become educators. He based the program on…
…The occasion? In 2020, one Steven Roberts of Stanford University published the usual farrago of identity-politics activism that passes for professional research among the woke, copy-pasted to apply to psychology….
…several years and has provided evidence supporting it. In 2019, Bucknell University’s former vice president for enrollment management, Bill Conley, penned one such article, describing how college enrollment constriction had…
…Barack Obama presidential campaigns. The dean of another Ivy League law school, Theodore Ruger of the University of Pennsylvania, is fighting to fire one of his most distinguished scholars, Amy…
…or “triggering,” the ghost of Lysenko smiles. Last year’s winner was Williams College Professor Phoebe Cohen, who was one of the keyboard warriors who helped cow MIT into disinviting University…
…ed news is not all bad. It could be worse, and, most importantly, what instigates our mental distress also provides hope for the future. Today’s campus insanity cannot be sustained….
A Two-Part Essay on the University Law School in the American Legal System “The logic of the common law is really economics. The teaching of law could be simplified by…
…personal health management. It was rejected by one of the University of Chicago’s well-known law school lecturers and senior federal appellate judge Frank Easterbrook, when students of Indiana University appealed…
…with students about reproductive rights, university employees should say that they are prohibited from promoting abortion in any way, the email [from the University of Idaho] said.” Advocacy is a…
…voting, not violence, is the appropriate American approach. While this should go without saying, especially for the most educated and privileged group of younger Americans—Gen Z college and university students—data…
…observes: Many university officials consider their support for discriminatory standards to be a sacred duty. It would be naive to expect them to stop simply because the Supreme Court finally…
…such as race and ethnicity. New data from College Pulse’s Future of Politics study show the reality: today’s college and university students are not particularly excited by or aligned with…
…exit the gene pool. This second function of higher education, creating future generations of smart people, has been ignored since Mother Nature invisibly solved it—at least until now. Thanks to…
…are merely going to be given a “pass” based on political criteria. (Alternately, for commercial reasons, the LSAT may, in the future, be merely a “check the box” formality, to…
…Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. As economic historian Phil Magness notes, “This ‘faculty job’ at a tax-funded public institution is nothing more that overt far-left ideological…
…is “going to resign from SPSP at the end of this year, when [his] membership dues run out, if the policy on mandatory statements stays in place for future conventions.”…
…Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor of Economics Emeritus, Ohio University A half century ago, this important provision would not have been considered. There was no Department of Education, and rules concerning…
…a naked tactic to buy the votes of young, educated future Democrats, President Biden has made good on at least one of his campaign promises. In August, the White House…
…in Belgium named Mattias Desmet. A professor of clinical psychology in the Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences at Ghent University, as well as a practicing psychoanalytic psychotherapist, Desmet has…
…that offering opinions different from other university members, especially those from preferred categories, makes them “unsafe” and makes the university a “dangerous” place. No, according to the AAUP, the threat…
…new institutions from scratch. I look at three such efforts below, schools in which I have had some personal association with prime movers. Ave Maria University A half hour’s drive…
…filed on September 10: Lowery v. Texas A&M University System. As described in the complaint: 8. The Texas A&M University System, along with nearly every university in the United States,…
…conceptualizes “DEI sickness” as an institutionalization of DEI ideology within a given college or university. This includes, for instance, DEI-based policies and practices, mandatory DEI-based trainings and litmus tests, and…
…Clearly, this university will make speech free again, free of the restrictions, intimidations, and punishments, that destroy a community, but especially one devoted to truth, for “Truth is the child…
…limit the speech of others with whom they disagree. In March, for instance, activist students at the University of California Hastings College of Law vigorously disrupted a talk by conservative…
…sake that we become more professional in the use of our knowledge.” – George J. Stigler, Nobel laureate economist, University of Chicago, Academic Freedom and Responsibility “Academic freedom is the…
…hazard, where future borrowers would expect to be bailed out, too: “Student loan forgiveness sets a terrible precedent as well. Because future students might reasonably expect their debt to be…
…to her to discuss the sincerity of the Afrikaner government. [Related: “Indigenization Has Poisoned Mount Royal University’s Academic Environment”] Tamar Herzig’s “Slavery and Interethnic Sexual Violence” describes how, in 1610,…
…anti-Semitic expression—the university is being made to answer for its failure to protect Jewish students and faculty with a new Title VI complaint filed on July 19 by the American…