MIT Canceled DEI—Just Kidding
…position. A promising step, but don’t be fooled—DEI persists at MIT. It hasn’t been rebranded; it’s still openly embedded. Interdepartmental committees thrive, and numerous administrative roles tied to DEI remain…
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How UC Berkeley’s I-House Built a Culture of Civil Disagreement
…administrators don’t play a more active role in listening, helping facilitate a free exchange of ideas, and ultimately providing a space for open discussion. A framework and game plan are…
Of Pain and Pedagogy—What We Sacrifice When We Learn with AI
…and took a class in German literature. I don’t know why I was taking that class, but I was. My term paper was about the German poet and philosopher Friedrich…
America’s Obsession with Diplomas Is Killing Opportunity
…an 18-year-old high school graduate, “Don’t come”? [RELATED: Degrees Have Value—But Employers Shouldn’t Require Them] Instead, we’re left with a workforce credentialing system that prioritizes diplomas over demonstrated ability. Degree…
Student Essay: This A+ Brought to You by Ideological Submission™
In Spring 2024, I took a required English course expecting to learn how to write clearly, build arguments, and think critically. Instead, I learned something else: the path to an…
National Association of Scholars Sounds Alarm on STEM Crisis
…Today, several science professors have said they are lucky if their students don’t have to take a remedial math class. “Students seem to be coming to college relatively poorly prepared…
Open Letter: Students, Master Writing
…you, too.) And they don’t just evaluate you by an absolute or independent standard. They evaluate you relative to your classmates. Did you write a better paper than the students…
Florida and NAS Forge New K-12 Standards to Expose Communism’s Dark History
…their job. American students don’t get taught about the 100+ million killed by Communist democide in the last 100 years. They don’t learn how Communists sought and to a horrifying…
I Can’t Understand My Professor
…watching videos. Despite shelling out tens of thousands of dollars on an “elite” medical school education, she is essentially having to teach herself—all because her professors don’t speak clear English….
Getting Booked
…take for granted as the basic cultural capital of an educated person. I don’t want to stop there, and I don’t want merely to compile a list of once-familiar-but-now-expired authors….
More On the NSF Director’s Copy-and-Paste Career
…Don’t use quotation marks, and don’t cite the source you copy from. And don’t ask for permission from the copyright holders—they might say no. Also, don’t admit that your “novel”…
Leadership Lessons from the Ivy League Clown Show
…students will, too. They’re kids. They obviously can’t discern right from wrong if they think it’s okay to harass their fellow students or occupy spaces that don’t belong to them….
We Need to Do Something About Student Writing
…several years, I have noticed an alarming trend amongst my seventeen-year-olds: no one knows how to write anymore. Don’t get me wrong. There are always exceptions. Every year, several students…
Stand Up for Funding
…of the world’s richest men? Well, they’re stupid because they don’t see that science produces great economic returns on investment! In support, Collins cited the Human Genome Project—which Collins directed…
Bad Judges Made by Bad Law Schools
…really don’t get paid to think. They follow rules and procedures of the courts they work in. They take direction from their staff and clerks. If they use any “legal…
A Jewish Professor Claims Trump’s Fight Against Anti-Semitism is Insincere—But Leaves Out Key Facts to Make His Case
…“students must have the right to protest … But protesters don’t have the right to get classes canceled, to shut down study in the library, or to engage in violence.”…
Christian Higher Education Is Gen Z’s Salvation
…a 12-month period. The overall pooled prevalence was approximately one in five.” [3] Chip Bugnar, “Don’t Miss Gen Z’s Missionary Potential,” The Gospel Coalition, September 3, 2023. [4] Bugnar, “Don’t…
Michigan State University Opens $38 Million ‘Sanctuary’ for ‘Minorities’
…opportunity for others to acknowledge the past, learn about who we are today, and grow by not fearing what they don’t understand or haven’t had the chance to experience.” The…
Will Therapists Be Able to Speak Their Minds? Chiles v. Salazar Puts Free Speech on Trial.
…if they don’t wish to take it at face value but instead want to understand it in a more nuanced way? And further still, what if the patient wishes to…
Linda, Listen—The Kids Don’t Know Money, Help Them
…buried in convoluted benefits packages, and the program is notoriously difficult to navigate. Many workers don’t even have access to it because their employers don’t offer it, and even fewer…
An Extra Credit Assignment Inspires Reflection on Study Habits
…lifestyle has definitely been a letdown for some of my friends, I don’t regret the choices I’ve made. Prioritizing my education has been a challenge, but it’s also been incredibly…
Manipulation and Indoctrination in Counseling Education
…the various conceptualizations of white racial identity development. Learn how levels of white racial consciousness may affect the counseling process. Learn what a white person can do in order to…
Campus Leftists Are Stunned to Learn I Lean Right—and Fail to See How They Undermine My Achievements
…don’t dictate my worldview. But I think for myself—and I’ve found that I align with conservative principles: limited government, traditional values, and the importance of a strong family. If intellectual…
College Football’s Lost Virtue
…met by all other admitted students. The academic standards don’t need to be those of the Ivy League, but there should be higher standards and demands for in-class learning so…
Resistance to Trump’s Orders Sows Doubt About Reform
…by bloated administrative offices—has imposed race-based policies that flout civil rights law while pushing partisan indoctrination on students. You don’t have to dig deep to hit radicalism. In a report…
Back to Stick Figures: How Woke Warriors Destroyed Anthropology
…dignified treatment of their dead.” Once academic freedom is relinquished and the data—images and all—are in the hands of activist descendant communities, don’t expect new scientific discoveries. Instead, expect woke…
The Passion Project Industry: How College Admissions Activities Lists Killed Intellectual Wonder
…and interpersonal development. As teenagers, we are all lost. We don’t yet know who we are or what drives us in this world. By our late teenage years, we should…
MIT Still Requires DEI Essay of Grad Students After Abandoning Faculty Pledge
…and the Trump administration is about to begin … For the foreseeable future, I don’t see any substantial pressure for more DEI,” Sindhusen said. He said MIT’s Civil Discourse Project…
Social Promotion Fails Students and Colleges
…they won’t even know why because we don’t know what we don’t know. They will believe that some injustice has been committed. [RELATED: Grade Inflation Is the New Affirmative Action]…
Computer Science Is Not a Science
…In physics, you learn the rules of matter, energy, and motion. In chemistry, you learn, first of all, the periodic table of elements, and then all the molecules into which…