North Korea Has Taken Over Academe
…for them).But even in this climate, a particularly egregious case occurred recently, whose ramifications continue to unfold. Don’t Mention the Slur At the University of Kansas, on November 12, during…
…for them).But even in this climate, a particularly egregious case occurred recently, whose ramifications continue to unfold. Don’t Mention the Slur At the University of Kansas, on November 12, during…
…sound. Politicians don’t want federal money wasted on degree mills or other dubious schools. Accreditation was thought to be a good defense against that. Back in the 1960s, when the…
…includes such august names as the University of California–Berkeley, Bowdoin, Hamilton, and Vassar. That some of the best-known colleges earn poor marks for general education doesn’t mean they don’t do…
…choices that don’t always pay off.” Yes, the data show that, which one might say is a reason to be a little more cautious in how emphatically we speak of…
Student activists pressing universities to divest from fossil fuels are of two minds about free speech. They want it for themselves, but don’t seem keen on allowing it for opponents….
…that are not really settled matters of fact. We don’t want viewpoint diversity on whether the Earth is round versus flat. But do we want everyone to share the same…
…answers don’t matter. It is that getting to the answer by imposing a “consensus” is bound to have bad results for a free people who need to learn how to…
…don’t believe I’ve ever used it in my own right in a class lecture, though of course I’ve noted when figures covered in the class, such as Woodrow Wilson, have…
…term the irreverent professors regard as oxymoronic. Academia and Christianity don’t go together. Does Southwest Baptist have a vibrant queer theory collective? But here we have evidence of the opposite,…
…all be readily learned on the job. Their real complaint is that our students, our graduates don’t have the level of literacy, the good habits, the sense of personal responsibility…
…in western civilization” may be “fun to read—indulgent, even,” but it is time to move on. I don’t mean to make too much fun of poor Kai. He is clearly…
…and sanding of the cultural corrosion that inevitably gains ground if we don’t intervene; the replacement of the broken parts; the determination to keep the essential and to improve where…
…smart phones (or tablets and laptops, but at Berry most students don’t bring computers to classrooms–yet another reason why your kids should come here) and fill out the evaluations in…
…can talk about themselves,” don’t give students much time to fill out the forms, which increases the likelihood they will just circle all 5s and hurry out, and let students…
…disaster), the ideal first female president (Dianne Feinstein), what kids learn in high school (don’t bully), college now (summer camp, Club Med), what campus leftists should have been doing in…
…placing U.S. history into a global context (something laudable) but by downplaying or eliminating from the history standards items that don’t fit either a global approach or the ideological preferences…
…professor thinks “the Asians” have integrated better than “the blacks. … “I don’t see why that is insensitive or racist,” Hough added. ….. be denied life-saving healthcare by many insurers…
…soon.”) Is Sulkowicz a “false accuser”? We don’t know that. It’s possible that something ambiguous happened between her and Nungesser that night—something that she later came to see as coercive…
…only three American colleges that don’t: Hillsdale College, Grove City College, and the College of the Ozarks. There are probably more, but not many. The advantage of this plan is…
…we don’t even offer a genuinely high quality education, one that goes beyond the current shibboleths for which students actually don’t need to go to college, what can be said…
…those schools is small, however, lots of students end up devastated when they don’t get in and have to “settle” for a backup school. Bruni quotes one young woman who…
…but there was also considerable support for a criticize-but-don’t-censor position. One columnist for the Prince, who sympathized for those offended by the Urban Congo skit, nevertheless offered some practical advice…
…MSNBC suggests that many within the liberal movement don’t want factual journalism at all, but rather opinionated journalism with a liberal bent. In fact, though they would have you believe…
…prudence and personal responsibility? Why don’t you send that message to a person?” I get the answer, “Because rape is never a woman’s fault. I don’t want to suggest that…
…comes from environments where opinions are valued beyond their adherence to a so-called progressive agenda. I would call it the Don’t Be an Idiot Campaign — if only that word…
It’s mistake to conclude that “where you go to college is of almost no importance.” Even if they don’t offer the royal road to intellectual or professional success, elite colleges…
…has suffered a smaller decline, only 10 percent since 2013. Those numbers don’t surprise me. When I joined the English department at Emory University in 1989, there were 350 majors….
…difficult material than whatever they are already reading—grade after grade—in a coherent reading curriculum. Most media outlets in this country rarely discuss these reading issues at all. They don’t find…
…Unfortunately for “Charb,” extremists don’t know that common wisdom. Using children as hostages, three Muslim gunmen forced their way into Charlie Hebdo’s offices on Wednesday, executing targeted members of the…
…cutting edge either when it considers such measures as average net price (taking into consideration the fact that most students don’t pay sticker price at an institution) or loan performance…