College Sports Have Outgrown the Schools That Made Them
…rugby—but the name most associated with its invention is Walter Camp of Yale University. Early college football was nasty and brutal, with 19 players dying in 1905 alone, leading to…
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A Small Act of Thievery in Vermont
…Yale University renamed Calhoun College, which honored John C. Calhoun, vice president of the U.S. from 1825-1832. Henceforth, it would be “Grace Hopper College,” a pioneer of computer programming. In…
College Applications Are Becoming Easier, but That Won’t Solve Declining Enrollment
…admit. College admissions are known to be so competitive because many institutions—especially those at the top of the food chain, such as Harvard and Yale—have limited seats, high demand, and…
He Watched Friends ‘Become Radicalized’: Students on Rising Support for Political Violence
…prostate cancer diagnosis or the heinous murder of Minnesota’s Democratic Speaker of the House, Melissa Hortman. A study by the Buckley Institute at Yale found that only 29 percent of…
Helicopter Parenting Won’t Get Your Child into Harvard
…calls, and decisions almost invariably struggle to demonstrate the independence that elite schools prize. Elite schools like Harvard or Yale admit applicants based not only on academic and extracurricular performance…
Universities Have a Logic Problem
…professors—one from Yale University and the other from the University of Chicago—collaborated on a guest essay. In it, they argued that they are entitled to taxpayer funds without any conditions,…
Republican Senator Says Elite Universities Are Using H-1B Visas to Staff DEI Positions
…recently detailed what he said is an “outrageous” practice by universities, including Dartmouth College, Carnegie Mellon University, and Yale University’s health system. This specific visa program is for workers in…
SEL and the Surveillance of the American Mind
…splash. So when they formed the Collaborative for Advancement of Social Emotional Learning (CASEL) at the Yale Child Study Center in 1994, it took off like San Francisco during the…
Some Observations on New College Rankings
…and the Wall Street Journal (WSJ). [RELATED: Confessions of a Former College Ranker] All three rankers place Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, and the University of Pennsylvania in the top 10…
An Answer to an ‘Excruciating Question’
…has continued in a series of New York Times articles, the latest being “The Excruciating Question Confronting Black College Applicants,” written by Yale Law School professor Justin Driver. What fresh…
Trump Administration Says It Wants to Fight Racial Discrimination in College Admissions—Then Things Got Weird
…admitted. But the racial composition remained unchanged at other colleges, and some, such as Yale and Duke, reported an increase in the share of black, Hispanic, or Indigenous enrollment. There…
Conservatives Don’t Need to Flash Their Free Speech Card for Profs Who Cheer Kirk’s Assassination
…those who share his views—meaning millions of conservatives across the country and in the classroom. The Daily Wire host relates how Ann Coulter came to speak at Yale University, and…
Food for Thought Goes Hungry at Princeton
…life outside the classroom as well. And this is where the dining halls come in. When I was an undergraduate at Yale in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and…
UChicago’s Management Crisis
…market, and an effective monopoly, and with a general culture of progressive political allegiance that restricts ideological diversification—over 98 percent of Yale faculty donations went to Democrats. But this points…
It’s a Big Club, and You Ain’t in It
In Season 5, Episode 7 of Gilmore Girls, Rory Gilmore—ever the ambitious Yale student journalist—follows whispers and cryptic clues to the Life and Death Brigade, a secret society of Yale’s…
An Incoming Student’s Guide to University Fees
…such as Harvard and Yale can cost $35,800 per year. Your choice of educational institution will determine the level of your student debt, so choose with confidence. While the government…
Merit Means Nothing if Opportunity Can Be Bought
…even staged photos to make students appear as star athletes, securing them spots at schools like Yale, Stanford, University of Southern California, and Georgetown. Though the scandal involved a small…
Colleges Ignored Their Prophets—Now They Pay the Price
…75 years ago: “Yale Head Warns of Federal Gifts.” Charles Seymour, longtime Yale president, had announced his plans to retire and said if colleges—specifically private schools—wished to control their own…
Jewish Studies Has a Problem—And It’s Anti-Semitism
…that Zionism was a means for him to “expose his genitals.” Yale University Press published these garbage ideas as part of its “Jewish Lives” series. His work does not appear…
Trump Allows Chinese Students into U.S. Universities in Exchange for Rare Earth Minerals
…energy markets. Tsinghua University also maintains partnerships with Yale, Columbia, and several other elite American institutions, as reported by Ian Oxnevad, the National Association of Scholars’s senior fellow for foreign…
Harvard and the Birth of Lawfare
…first requires an enemy created by ideological division and class envy, ultimately leading to lawlessness. [RELATED: Yale, Harvard, UChicago: The Leftist Legal Trust Shredding the Constitution] That may be the…
This Is the Degree Behind the DEI Takeover of Campus Life
A century ago, student dormitories were supervised by faculty who lived in the buildings, a tradition that remains at Harvard, Yale, and elite prep schools such as Phillips Andover. The…
Harvard Sets the Tone—And It’s Off-Key for Jews
…of Pennsylvania, Harvard, NYU, and Yale, Jewish enrollment fell by double digits. Even schools considered increasingly popular among Jewish students have lower percentages today than a decade ago. Emory University,…
Susan Neiman Wants Her Left Back
…Free University of Berlin. An associate professor of philosophy, she taught at Yale University from 1989 to 1996 and at Tel Aviv University from 1996 to 2000. She was the…
Stand Up for Science? Try Standing Up for Scientists Shunned for Thinking Freely
…Erika Christakis were driven to resign by excited and intolerant students who accused them—among other vague accusations—of wanting to create an intellectual space at Yale instead of a safe space?…
The Trump Administration and International Student Enrollment at Harvard
…Yet in practice, she often acts as though she is answerable to no one—not to Congress, not to the courts, and certainly not to the American people. [RELATED: Yale, Harvard,…
Yale, Harvard, UChicago: The Leftist Legal Trust Shredding the Constitution
…either overwhelmingly graduated from Yale Law, taught at Yale, were visiting faculty at Yale, published through Yale, and/or were hired from Yale. Moreover, nearly all the speakers were Democrats—98.4 percent…
Sidky’s Postmodern Purge: Right on Anthropology, Wrong on Balance
…the Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) at Yale University and whose researchers do quantitative and comparative studies to see if they can construct tentative ethnographic hypotheses and use statistics to…
Democrats Outnumber Republicans 5 to 1 as Commencement Speakers
…universities become more intellectually diverse, he said. Image: “Then-Vice President Joe Biden delivering a commencement speech to the graduating class of 2015 at Yale University” by David Lienemann on Wikipedia…
To Rescue Science, Phase Out Research Grants
…their universities before World War II. For example, the pursuit of prestige rewards was a significant driver of the development of particle physics. In the 1930s, MIT, Harvard, Yale, and…