A Targeted Teacher at Yale Quits
…and a safe space. Peter Salovey, president of Yale, and Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway, the highest-ranking black official at Yale, both issued notably cold and feeble responses to Christakis’…
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Limp Administrators Let the Angry Few Take Over
…library, shouting racial epithets at white students trying to study. At Yale University, a student screamed at a school official whose wife (also a Yale employee) had had the temerity…
A College Guide to Viewpoint Diversity
…We identified only two conservatives at Princeton and two at Yale. The University of Pennsylvania, meanwhile, has a couple of conservative historians and the heterodox John DiIulio in its government…
At Duke, “Intolerance” Can Cost You Tenure
…and university service” expected but not in and of themselves sufficient. Duke lists no other criteria for tenure. Until now. Last week, the anti-campus free speech movement migrated from Yale,…
How Yale Supports Racial Separatism
I mostly agree with Peter Schuck’s viewpoint (What the President of Yale Should Have Said) but disagree strongly with his suggestion that colleges and universities have been working to support…
What the President of Yale Should Have Said
On November 10, following the campus thousand-member “March for Resilience” over racial insensitivity, Yale president, Peter Salovey and Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway emailed those of us in the Yale…
After Many Woeful Failures, the Colleges Avoid Change
…2) the Yale student shrieking “who the fuck hired you” at a professor so foolish as to suggest that the subject of culturally appropriate Halloween costumes for Yale’s overgrown brats…
‘Voices of the Yale-Mizzou Eruptions’
…which conformity to those rules is considered natural and expected. Now that system is starting to eat them alive, from elite universities like Yale, all the way down to, er,…
Snowflake Totalitarians at Yale
Last week, a real-life South Park episode somehow took place within the very prestigious confines of Yale University. In the lead-up to Halloween, Yale Dean Burgwell Howard sent out an…
The Systematic Eradication of Conservative Thought on Campus
…IQs sometimes can’t find a job in academia. My former boss had a degree from the highest-ranked law school (Yale) and had published scholarly articles, but could not find a…
Yik Yak—Latest Target of the Anti-Free-Speech Left
…Related: Is Yale Using Title IX to Trump Free Speech? Requiring colleges to punish what is perceived to be “race-based” speech would endanger even viewpoints that are mainstream positions in…
THE CHAOS OF COLLEGE CURRICULA
…presidents, trustees, and policymakers met under the leadership of former Yale University president and CUNY board chair Benno Schmidt. In their published report, Governance for a New Era: A Blueprint…
The U. of Chicago’s Flawed Support for Freedom of Expression
…Yale The Chicago statement veers away from any such understanding of freedom of expression. As far as the statement goes, all expressions enjoy the same title to “freedom of expression.”…
A New Politically Tainted Survey on Campus Sexual Assault
…administrators purport to believe is a campus crime wave. Related: The Odd Sexual Accounting at Yale Second, as Ashe Schow has repeatedly, and correctly, observed, framing questions in such a…
Another Bad Idea–Mandatory Endowment Spending
…would have better facilities…Only fund managers would be worse off.” Not Every Campus Is Yale or Harvard While institutions such as Yale, Harvard, MIT, Princeton and Stanford are very richly…
Education Department Rewards False Complaints of Abuse
…to gut the presumption of innocence. The Yale Law Journal noted in 1987 that “courts, universities, and student defendants all seem to agree that the appropriate standard of proof in…
Office For Civil Rights Goes After Michigan State
…OCR’s efforts to weaken campus due process. Resolution letters between OCR and various universities have allowed the agency to go well beyond the “Dear Colleague” letter’s terms. The Yale letter…
12 Things You Didn’t Know About Higher Education
…Yale, U. of Toronto Highest average pay for full professors: Stanford, $210,335. Highest Average pay for full professors (public institutions) UCLA, $170,361. Average pay reported by adjuncts per 3-credit course:…
Remember the Men of Marathon
…knives. Who will wipe this blood off us?” With nihilism, we reach the heart of our educational dysfunction. Yale professor Donald Kagan states, “A vulgar form of nihilism, I claim,…
The Odd Sexual Accounting at Yale
…complaints, only three were reported to the Yale Police Department. (None appear to have been reported to the New Haven Police Department.) Three more were formally handled through Yale’s University-Wide…
How Our Universities Are Failing Us
…these developments in higher education have come primarily from the conservative end of the political spectrum. From the time William F. Buckley Jr. published God and Man at Yale in…
Metal Fatigue and Campus Pessimism
…spent some time documenting this. Yale classifies more than 400 of its undergraduate courses as “sustainability focused” or “sustainability related.” At Cornell, 68 percent of the academic departments offer sustainability…
CAMILLE PAGLIA IS UNHAPPY WITH OUR COLLEGES
…unformed” and colleges are responsible for the lack of intellectual discourse in America:: “I’ve encountered these graduates of Harvard, Yale, the University of Pennsylvania, and Princeton; I’ve encountered them in…
WAPO’s Faulty Rape Poll Muddies the Issue
…popular than Yale or Harvard. Instead, women flock to coed universities, where they are awarded 58 percent of BA and MA degrees. The Washington Post-Kaiser Family Foundation poll sampled 1,053…
COLLEGE SHOULDN’T BE JOB TRAINING, BUT…
…Yale, but that he also sees as being “inherent in liberal education.” Despite his aversion to the vocational drift of higher education over the past several decades, Zakaria’s recommended version…
Is Affirmative Action “Microaggressive”?
…university campuses, or to white/conservative/racist critics. Yesterday talking head Michelle Bernard observed on MSNBC that neurosurgeon and new Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson “probably went to Yale and University of…
TEN CAMPUS RAPES—OR WERE THEY?
…Yale. He was also a finalist for the Rhodes scholarship. It turned out that his interview for the Rhodes coincided with the day of the Harvard-Yale game. After some thought,…
‘Testocracy’ Is Here to Stay–Alas
…Yale. If, before the SAT, the privilege to attend Harvard was passed down on the basis of blood heritage, after the SAT such privilege was reproduced by means of the…
KC Johnson Amid the Hecklers
…constitute a Title IX violation, as the Office for Civil Rights consistently maintains. Second (citing the new policies at Yale and Stanford), I suggested that too many colleges have created…
What’s An Ivy League Education Worth?
…is usually cheaper for a poor or middle class student to attend Yale than the local state university because the richest schools pay all or most tuition fees for many…