“It just isn’t the case that university economics departments are heavily stacked with libertarians and free market advocates. By roughly two to one, economics profs are of the interventionist persuasion,…
…Education’s co-founders, University of Pennsylvania Professor Alan Charles Kors and I, established FIRE in 1999, a year after Professor Kors and I published our book, The Shadow University: The Betrayal…
…toxic, as intrinsic to rape culture. A utopian future is imagined where there are no men. We’re all genderless mannequins. From Conversations with Tyler Cowen, Mercatus Center, George Mason University…
…American Revolution, are unfamiliar with the Lincoln-Douglas debates…. don’t know what separates Protestants and Catholics,” and so forth. McConnell concludes: “One thing a great university provides is education about what…
…Enterprise methodology was both overly narrow and politically biased, a far more comprehensive academic study was led by Daniel Klein, an economist at Santa Clara University. That study was published…
…panel, “Big History: The View from Gaia.” Scholars came from such places as Villanova; Georgia Gwinnett College; the University of Pennsylvania; the University of Southern Maine; California State University, Fullerton;…
…Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America’s Campuses (1998). Initially inspired by the famous “water buffalo” case at the University of Pennsylvania in 1993, the book tracked the rapid…
…is not the job of the university to take sides in any of these matters. The university simply provides a platform. JOHN LEO: Yes, that’s just one university though. JONATHAN…
…the entire re-naming enterprise began late last semester, when, according to the Crimson, “a group of Harvard Latino students issued a set of demands to University President Drew G. Faust,…
…key to the American future. But in the wake of the Black Power movement, feminism, and anti-Enlightenment postmodernism, the quota-driven academia of the late 1980s lost its rationalist moorings. Both…
…At the time of the University of Missouri protests, a story in the New York Times reported that students of color at the university felt isolated and disrespected. They, particularly…
…meeting. One can hope that for the sake of their professional integrity and the future of anthropology, they will soundly reject the emotionalism, bad science and political posturing that have…
…where does responsibility for all the silliness lie? With the administrators. Consider the words of three university presidents, whose attitudes appear to be ubiquitous. In resigning his presidency, Timothy Wolfe,…
…future on hold for three years. A young black man with no history of criminal activity had to suspend a promising education at Harvard law school while both university administrators…
…Koch Industries. Over the course of the last decade or so, BB&T’s charitable foundation has funded 63 university and college programs that examine the moral foundations of capitalism and the…
…comments by fools and bigots (perhaps not even members of the university community, ascribes these views to many others who in fact condemn them, impugns the university for tolerating racism,…
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…
Black student protesters and their allies got the scalp they were looking for at the University of Missouri—the university president, Tim Wolfe, resigned today after criticism for not responding strongly…
Many legal experts were surprised in June of 2013 when the U.S Supreme Court handed down its long-awaited decision in the University of Texas affirmative action case, Fisher v. Texas….
…range usually seen by the University’s admissions officers, but who nonetheless were offered admission.” “As the University told OCR, regarding the Class of 2010, the University “denied admission to literally…
…$1,000 per undergraduate. Institutions such as University of Central Florida, Miami Dada College, and Liberty University would only have about $200 per undergraduate. Not a Panacea While coercing universities to…
…them into simple yeas and nays on divestment. Campaigns at Harvard, Middlebury College, Tufts University and more, asked dissenters to get ‘on the right side of history’. According to divestarians,…
…psychology actually qualifies as science. The Reproducibility Project, coordinated by University of Virginia psychology professor Brian Nosek, executive director of the Center for Open Science, involved a team of 270…
Nearly everyone recognizes that student debt has risen to a level that will be difficult to sustain in the future given the nation’s slow growing economy and the sagging incomes…
These comments were delivered at the 2015 Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Symposium on “The Future of Higher Education” June 3 in Washington D.C. The event was co-sponsored by the…
…at the university. (Yale is the only university in the country to have such an obligation.) I’ve analyzed each of these reports, issued by the office of Deputy Provost Stephanie…
…co-chair of the original APUSH committee, remarked that the guidelines were designed to result in high school students “receiving instruction equivalent to lower-division history survey courses offered in university and…
…The president of Ohio State University—who previously held top positions at Brown University, the University of Colorado, and West Virginia University—had a pay package exceeding $2 million before he resigned…
…University of Illinois failed to win approval from the university’s trustees because of his history of extreme and unprofessional anti-Israel rhetoric). This form of anti-Semitism may not always be conscious;…
…noticed at UVA after the Rolling Stone fiasco, and raises serious questions about the future attitude toward due process as these students become more active citizens in the near future….