De-Computing Is Not the Answer to Our AI Problem
…experience with AI allows: I work at Marquette University. As a Roman Catholic, Jesuit university, we’re called to be an academic community that, as Pope John Paul II wrote, ‘scrutinize[s]…
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Letter to the Editor: The Real Threat to Grads Isn’t AI—It’s College
…is going to require people with technical skills that are not taught at university, but rather at technical trade schools and through apprenticeship programs, as well as properly prepared university…
Blacks 6X More Likely Than Higher-Scoring Asians to Get Into Wisconsin Med School
…these formative experiences that prepare future doctors to save people’s lives. The University of Wisconsin has no shame and publicly celebrates the racial makeup of its class as proof of…
Harvard’s Fight Isn’t About Democracy. It’s About Federal Funding and Constitutional Principle
…waiting for White House permission slips or fearing punitive retaliation. A university that surrenders control over whom it may admit, hire, or teach ceases to be a university; it becomes…
What If the University Didn’t Fear the Machine?
In a recent Chronicle of Higher Education essay, philosopher Megan Fritts offered a stark meditation on her experience serving on a university artificial intelligence (AI) committee: “If this robot can…
Academia: The Worst-Managed Industry in America
…administrative hostility, including university class-action lawsuits. Why aren’t university executives instead standing up and openly embracing legitimate questions about their costs and methods? If these were corporations with actual shareholders,…
Rethinking AI in the Classroom Starts Now
…Humanities] A friend, and recent graduate from a top-tier university, admitted that he hasn’t typed an original assignment in two years. For every paper and project, he copied and pasted…
A Surveillance University Is Rising in the Desert—And the West Is Helping Build It
…the NEOM University’s website, one will see that the university is being led by the former University of Illinois Urbana Champaign Provost and Vice Chancellor, who states that, “NEOM is…
American Students Are Not Lazy or Stupid. They Are Malnourished.
…permission. Buried in a recent report from the Economic Innovation Group is a statistic that should make every university administrator in America lose sleep: Foreign-born workers who arrived in the…
At Oxford, the Pride Flag Is the New Union Jack
…getting academic jobs. Yet I would not want my university to fly the Mormon Deseret Flag to signal our inclusiveness; nor would this Italian American want his American university to…
Med Schools Risk Funding Cuts Within a Year for Lack of Nutrition Courses, RFK Jr. Warns
…and Human Services is taking a rare but welcome step: pressuring medical schools to take more responsibility for how they train future physicians to prevent and treat diseases. The need…
Universities Are Racing Toward AI. Is Anyone Watching the Road?
…institutions. It would seem that where AI goes, the funding flows. The University of Maryland, for example, is currently seeking to incorporate AI-related coursework into its existing degree plans. The…
We Need a ‘PostBS’ Civics—Starting in Elementary and Middle School
…our system can transform it. Only those who feel seen in it can feel invested in its future. A Roadmap Already Exists Amazingly, we already have the tools to help…
Worried About AI? Study the Humanities
…after graduating from Columbia University ($204,000) to that of an English major graduating from the same school ($74,000). Enrollment statistics paint a similar picture, with computer science undergraduate programs at…
Feds Froze the Funds—Now UPenn Freezes Thomas’s Records
More than two years after Lia Thomas became the first male athlete to win an NCAA all-women’s swimming title, the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) has officially admitted its faults and…
Top Medical Schools Teach Weight Inclusivity, Racial Justice, Report Says
…that are peddling this ideology. “At the University of Connecticut, students are taught that white privilege—not behavior or environment—is the driving force behind health disparities,” he said. “At the University…
Lia Thomas’s Records Removed Following Federal Title IX Investigation at UPenn
In a landmark decision, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) has reached an agreement with the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) requiring the removal of trans-identifying male swimmer Lia Thomas’s records…
Spare a Thought for the Shuttered Small College
New Jersey City University (NJCU) recently announced a plan to merge with nearby Kean University. The announcement comes after years of financial mismanagement and shrinking enrollment. NJCU is lucky. A…
The Changing Face of Anti-Semitism in the U.S.
…to Nazis. Jews are painted as culprits in their past and future demise Many readers will find this hard to believe. It seems to defy U.S. history, to ridicule refined…
The Emptiness of ‘Anti-Semitism Studies’
…students, “alleging that the university allowed a hostile, discriminatory environment that violated their civil rights protections.” (The parties later agreed to a settlement.) The Raoul Wallenberg Institute at the University…
Ohio State’s ‘AI Fluency Initiative’ Invites Innovation—and Hard Questions
…the same calculations as OSU. Many will follow the same path as OSU. We should not be surprised. Image: “University Hall, Ohio State University” by Minh Nguyen on Wikimedia Commons…
I’m a Jewish Student at Northwestern. I Shouldn’t Have to Choose Between My Faith and My Future
…my heritage as a Jewish Biomedical Engineering student at an American university. But now, I find myself once again being pressured to choose between my Jewish identity and my future….
‘Why Intellectuals Are Wrong’
Editor’s Note: The following article was originally published by the Observatory of University Ethics on April 22, 2025. The Observatory translated it into English from French. I have edited it,…
To Fight Political Polarization, Reinvest in Civics and the Liberal Arts
…Two years later, students seized buildings at colleges across the country to publicize their claims that Israel had undertaken some combination of theft, colonization, and genocide. At the European university…
Trump Allows Chinese Students into U.S. Universities in Exchange for Rare Earth Minerals
…working for China’s Ministry of State Security, “tasked with identifying sympathetic Stanford students and gathering intelligence.” But Stanford hasn’t been the only target. Tsinghua University, a linchpin of China’s military-industrial…
Catholic Group Demands U. Nebraska ‘Held Accountable’ for Drag Show Mocking Mass
…with permission. Following the College Fix’s recent report of a doctoral student’s drag show recital mocking the Catholic Mass at the University of Nebraska, an advocacy group sent a demand…
The University of Akron Hosted a Clown Show—It Was Called Streamer University
On May 6, viral influencer and Twitch streamer Kai Cenat announced Streamer University—a free, four-day event held at the University of Akron (UA) from May 22 to 25. The goal…
Texas Republicans Designed a DEI Machine and Don’t Know It Yet
The Texas House recently passed SB 37—a bill that would grant governor-appointed university regents unprecedented oversight of the curriculum and administration of public universities. The bill seeks to combat leftist…
How UC Berkeley’s I-House Built a Culture of Civil Disagreement
…University, centered on freedom of speech issues and charges of antisemitism. Administration critics have called this crackdown on speech unconstitutional. Free speech, however, was attacked on campuses even before Trump…
Muslim Brotherhood Uses Higher Ed to Infiltrate and Influence the West
Editor’s Note: The following article was originally published by the Observatory of University Ethics on December 15, 2023. The Observatory translated it into English from French. I have edited it,…