Swarthmore, Occidental and Their Kangaroo Courts
…sexual assault the right to counsel in campus disciplinary proceedings, Klawunn fumed, “We don’t want attorneys to start running the University process.” Fairness, it seems, takes a back seat to…
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6 Ways to Defeat the Campus Censors
…these sources–indeed, FIRE only knows of three that don’t, out of the thousands of American colleges: Hillsdale College, Grove City College, and the College of the Ozarks. (There are probably…
For-profit Higher Ed is Fine – Government Funding is the Problem
…(especially the faculty) can thwart changes they don’t like. But if for-profit higher-ed is so good, why the perception that it is an ugly aberration in the lovely realm of…
A First: Conservative Studies Professor at a Public University
…of donor intention as well: “Other possible donors want to see if this actually adds something serious that is missing from the intellectual spectrum.” Donor intention is a complicated matter….
Should University Presidents Speak Out?
…presidents don’t air their views more often on the “big issues.” His idea of an estimable college leader is someone like Lee Bollinger of Columbia (because he “spearheaded the fight…
Fishy Courses: The Fake Red Snappers of Academe
…don’t know about history, writing, literature, philosophy, and dozens of other subjects is traceable in no small part to the swapping out of the proper content of courses for ideologically-driven…
Race/Gender Historians on the Defense
…in the whole discussion, an us vs. them set-up dividing the NAS authors from historians per se. It implies, “WE are the historians, YOU are the outsiders who don’t understand…
For Conservatives, Bad News from the Campus
…Of course, most 18-year-olds don’t care much about politics–only 34.5 percent of them agreed that “Keeping up to date with political affairs” is important–and they have acquired their opinions mainly…
Why Do Education Schools Have Such Low Standards?
…understanding of what choice could include. Their major assumption seems to have been that most teachers don’t expect enough of all their students (“the soft bigotry of low expectations”). However,…
Andover and that ‘Hookers on TV’ Project
…explore that which interests them and affects society at large. Not only do you not know anything about my research and clearly nothing about Andover, you don’t know anything about…
A Patronizing Look at Campus Conservatives
…and condescension toward those who don’t share its ideology? Me neither. Nonetheless, a new book entitled Becoming Right: How Campuses Shape Young Conservatives (Princeton University Press) turns out to be…
Hey, Kids–How About Studying Oppressed Sex Workers?
…we don’t want the Course of Study or any formal institutional document to communicate to our students that we think only Shakespeare, Sophocles, Homer and Chaucer are the most valuable…
Affirmative Action for Professors?
…conservative professors, so all the professors don’t think the way I do.” Obviously, Professor Zimmerman, a professor of history and education at NYU, is something of an anomaly. On the…
Puzzled Penn Politics Professor
…life. Clichés about fallen barriers are increasingly meaningless; symbols don’t make for coherent policies.” In the 19th Century, of course, and well into the early career of Strom Thurmond white…
PC Professor Under Fire
…more fun: “Sure we can give dem Les time and no prublem in wat we get on news stories frum graduates students frum colleges. Dey don’t need no stinkin mor…
It’s Not Just the Athletes Who Can’t Read and Write
…look the other way. The student “earned” a B. It would be a serious mistake, however, to think that the problem of ill-prepared students who don’t want to be bothered…
Sending the Wrong Students to College
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Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover, But…
…to those diversity workers that almost every part of every university now has to scramble for resources and that if they don’t get all the funding they want, it could…
The Online Ban in Minnesota
…associated with a degree. If one relies on Richard Arum and Josipa Ruksa’s conclusion in Academically Adrift, most college students don’t learn much during four years on campus. At the…
Self-Esteem vs. Resilience
…by themselves. If they don’t, when they hit a roadblock in college or in the workplace after they’ve left the home, they don’t have the equipment to get past it….
A ‘Magisterial’ Work on Affirmative Action
“Mend it, don’t end it” was the famous advice on affirmative action from Bill Clinton, who did neither. There are, of course, other useful slogans, such as “Muddle it,” which…
Three Pell Grant Scams
…Grants, but there are numerous examples of not-for-profit schools doing similar things. The scam here is much broader than the good senatorial critics claim. Most Pell Recipients Don’t Graduate Then…
How Group Learning Invites Cheating
…classrooms all over the country. The teacher should not stand in front of a class imparting knowledge, goes this philosophy. (Don’t be “a sage on the stage” is the mantra.)…
Three Things Colleges Don’t Want Us to Know
…colleges often have results of tests like the Critical Learning Assessment that are very useful. The reason colleges don’t want to provide this information is simple: it is embarrassing and…
Harvard Won’t Stop Pushing ‘Community Values’
…freshmen on the first day that they don’t need to study moral reasoning since Harvard College already knows what is right and will show the way to goodness. It’s backwards…
Another College Cost: Lower Birth Rate
…elite schools. France and England spend much less on physical plant for colleges and universities. Faculty salaries don’t get as high there. The buildings at my French-born wife’s alma mater don’t look…
College Degrees Aren’t Umbrellas
…them. There certainly are some jobs like that – jobs that absolutely require skills and knowledge that even the sharpest high school graduates don’t have. What I don’t think is…
The Affirmative Action Zealots Have Won: Time to Surrender
…mendacious cover stories gone (“we don’t use race but it just so happens….”), the public will now see how the university really operates, for better or worse. Freedom to admit…
Why Common Core Standards Are Likely To Fail
…high school teachers to teach the Standards. Whether students learn–and what they learn–depends largely upon what happens inside the classroom as they and their teachers interact over the curriculum….
How to Save Tenure–Cut It Way Back
…The best of the rest would be offered renewable, long-term contracts, say 5-10 years. The next coterie would be offered short-term contracts, say 2-4 years. And finally, those who don’t…