Why Music Thrives in Our Universities
…MIT, Stanford, Chicago, Princeton, Columbia, or Yale, music is an essential part of their identity. MIT offers a B.S. in Music and a combined music and engineering degree, while Stanford…
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Safetyism and the Tentifada: Modern Campus Protests Undermine Intellectual Rigor and Erode Higher Education
…immediate cause for reflection was the Great Halloween Costume Contrempts that occupied Yale in the fall of 2015. The second author delivered a talk on campus the day Professor Nicholas…
Israel’s Fight Against Hamas May Deter Future Terrorist Attacks. Anti-Israeli Students Should Consider This.
It will come as no news to anyone other than Rip Van Winkle that anti-Israel protests recently occurred on university campuses nationwide. Columbia University, Yale, Harvard, Berkeley, and other institutions…
We Keep Us Grammatical
…safe.” The mantra is by no means confined to Princeton. It has been shouted, chanted, and written over and over again these past months at Columbia, at Yale, at UCLA,…
Rich Students Disproportionally Protest Israel: Should We Fund Elite Universities?
…pronounced for richly endowed schools like Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Northwestern, Duke, and Stanford. However, even these institutions face significant challenges, particularly with the potential imposition of larger endowment taxes. The…
The Kirkpatrick Doctrine and Domestic Policy
…anyone credentialed by Harvard, Yale, or MIT, and they still fall for the fake reporting of The New York Times, CNN, or Bloomberg. Europeans are also more accustomed to major…
An Octogenarian Reflects Upon Student Protests Over Six Decades
…Laos than had died in combat during the previous 14 years of war. The Yale University Cambodia Genocide Program concluded that roughly 1.7 million Cambodians—more than 20 percent of the…
Higher Education Subsidization: Part 1—Subsidy Justifications and Rationales
…than sacramental approach to religion—emphasized an educated clergy and a literate flock.” After these colonies established Harvard and Yale, other religions pushed to establish their own colleges—e.g., Presbyterians were instrumental…
The Trouble with Our Founders
…up against the willful ignorance of the crowd. Such shared stupor also explains how legal and literary scholars at the University of Zaragoza, University of Virginia, Yale University, Tel Aviv…
When University Leaders Won’t Lead
…conflict and as educational “stepping stones” to the State Department. Berkeley, UCLA, Columbia, NYU, Yale, Texas, MIT, the University of Chicago, and others are among the protest locations. As usual,…
A Mission Statement for New College of Florida
…these virtues than they would have been had they attended Stanford or Yale instead. Third, conciseness is a virtue. The mission statement is 80 words. You could shrink it into…
Better Campus Incentives: Reward the Good, Punish the Bad
…severely punished. This is particularly true at selective universities like Columbia or Yale, where many applicants are denied admission. Let only those who will play by the rules attend—we call…
Top of Mind: Reflections on Pro-Palestinian Protests
…University on April 18 has ignited solidarity protests at colleges nationwide, ranging from Yale University and MIT on the East Coast to Ohio State University in the Midwest and Stanford…
Top of Mind: Standardized Tests
…Requirements,” “Harvard reinstates standardized testing requirement, following Yale, MIT,” and “In Sudden Reversal, Harvard To Require Standardized Testing for Next Admissions Cycle.” “Our bottom line is simple: we believe a…
Why Law School Should Be an Undergraduate Program
…of the Yale Law School,” in History of the Yale Law School, Anthony T. Kronman, editor. Yale, like all earlier American law schools, originally awarded an undergraduate law degree, the…
U.S. Colleges and Admission Testing: Required, Optional, or Blind?
…and ability distributions. The elite Northeastern schools re-requiring test scores—Dartmouth, Georgetown, Brown, Yale, Harvard, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)—select applicants solely from that end of the range. Thus,…
Curricular Visions: Revitalizing the Great Books
…Dame, the Core Curriculum at Columbia, Humanities 10 at Harvard, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Western Culture at Princeton and Directed Studies at Yale. The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal…
Echoes of Lost Conversations: A Review of ‘Bright College Years’
…College Years could help serve as a model for the restructuring ahead. Set at Yale in the 1980s,, the story tells of a gang of friends going through their four…
To Renew Faith in Education, Look to Passover and Resurrection
…translation of the Bible. Yale’s Hebrew motto, Urim v’Thummim, is from the Hebrew Bible’s oracle worn by the High Priest Aaron (Leviticus 8:8). Harvard University’s Latin motto of “Veritas” began…
Hope for Harvard?
…Widener Library. Now that number is 45, somewhat fewer than are taught at the University of Michigan, and considerably fewer than the 75 taught at Yale. Such, apparently, are the…
The Takeover
…They are also hotbeds of left-wing and anti-Israel activism. Both Harvard and Yale received funds from Saudi Arabian donors to establish Islamic Studies centers, totaling $30 million. Brown and Columbia…
Yale University Decides It Needs Better Students Again
Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from National Review’s article titled “Yale University Decides It Needs Better Students Again,” published on February 22, 2024. To delve deeper into the…
The New 2024 Law School Rankings: The Sociology of Law
…be a corrective factor. As former University of Chicago Booth School of Business dean and Yale professor Edward A. Snyder recently stated, “Yale is nearly fully disconnected from much of…
Why FairAdmissions@MIT is Challenging MIT’s Illegal Sex Discrimination
…can at Harvard, Yale, Penn, and other Ivy League universities. But why is it morally and legally acceptable to reject an objectively superior male candidate to make room for a…
Biden and Universities Launch Sneak Attack on Free Speech
…taking place often enough to detract from the victim’s education. Universities around the country will often change the “and” to an “or,” like at Yale University. Language is important when…
Saving Free Speech
…2021, has grown to induct members from 24 major American universities, including Harvard, Yale, Cornell, MIT, and UCLA. A 2023 survey of 802 undergraduate students by Yale’s Buckley Institute found…
Racial Preferences as Conspicuous Consumption
…degrees from both Stanford and Harvard, it is hard to imagine a grander prize. Eat your heart out Yale! The fact that she survived so long despite her despite all…
Has Anyone Noticed How Cheap it Was to Bribe the Biden Crime Family and Our Universities?
…of mainland Chinese money from 2014 to 2019, and Yale’s take during the same period was $43.5 million, according to public records. The Daily Pennsylvanian, Penn’s own student newspaper, reported…
When Savages Exult in Selfies, What’s a Statesman to Consider?
…His mold, ever be a Statesman? The others Hill recommends are: Kim, Seven Pillars of Wisdom and Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses. How fortunate one of our elite universities—Yale—let my friend…
Nazism, Anti-Semitism, and Today’s Islamo-Fascism at American Universities
…the hiring process at American institutions to exclude Jews. Yale chose Hanns Oertel (1868–1952) as its delegate. German-born, he studied linguistics, comparative philology, and Vedic Sanskrit at Yale, completing his…