No Due Process, Thanks—This Is a Campus
…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….
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Tenure, Kipnis and the PC University
Some coincidences are less coincidental than others are. Northwestern University recently investigated professor Laura Kipnis, regarding complaints that an essay of hers had violated students’ legal rights. Meanwhile, a committee…
‘Being Offended Is Not a Plus for You’
…the lessons of the Salman Rushdie affair. Campus intolerance of inconvenient speakers is hardly new. Back in the sixties my own university blocked a psychologist for promoting the idea of…
Asian Americans Move Against Harvard
…Korean student in my precept class, individual Asians will protest privately what they see as outrageous racial double standards in university admissions, but they have not shown much interest in…
We Can End the Student Loan Mess
…calculate likely future earnings based on university, major, grades and professional experience. With this business model, students have an economic incentive to choose degrees in high return, in-demand majors such…
Why College Today Is a Mishmash
…calls “the hybrid university”—is on the way out and that the new online thing, “the university of everywhere,” is on the doorstep. Is it really? The End of College is…
WHY ELITE STUDENTS GET ELITE JOBS
…soccer, and running. Test well enough to get into an elite university. Apply for a first job in an Elite Professional Services Firm (EPS), the “finishing school” for American elites….
Millennials Not Ready for the Job Market
…in numeracy,” said Madeline Goodman, director of research at the ETS and one of the study’s co-authors, adding that the report presents troubling implications for the future of American competiveness….
SHOW THEM BAMBI—NO WAIT, THE MOTHER DIES
By Edward Morrissey The University of Michigan swerved away from folly yesterday by reversing a decision not to show the popular film American Sniper on campus after 300 students protested…
Why Is He $82,000 in Debt?
…the Future of Learning and the University of Everywhere indicates one reason why. Carey sits down at a Starbucks in Washington, DC, with a junior at George Washington University, “Hugh,”…
‘Testocracy’ Is Here to Stay–Alas
…intelligence. By contrast, more recent immigrants, such as Italians, Poles and Jews, were often labeled as mentally defective due to poor performance on the Stanford-Binet. Nevertheless, “visionaries” at Harvard University…
Save Money with Adjuncts, Spend It on Bureaucrats
…marketing, diversity, sustainability, security, athletic programs, and conference centers. He quotes Dan King, president of the American Association of University Administrators, who claims that government regulations and demands for such…
Some Clemson Faculty Call for Censorship
…university. The fact is that Clemson University has no authority or jurisdiction to prosecute anything criminally. This is the job of law enforcement authorities, including the police and the courts….
The Salaita Lawsuit
…inappropriate hires don’t occur again? In particular, will the university exercise greater oversight over future hires by the American Indian Studies Department? Third, has the university reached out to other…
Would These Profs Make You Major in English?
A recent Inside Higher Ed story documented an alarming trend in the English departments at University of Maryland, George Mason University, and Florida State University. The numbers of English majors…
‘SHARED GOVERNANCE’ OR FACULTY VS. ADMINISTRATORS
…institutions in which long-held assumptions and habits of faculty control over teaching methods thwarted systemwide efforts to create online programs of a sufficient scale. This list includes the University of…
Presidents and Students, Adults and Children
…And here is Amy Gutmann, head of University of Pennsylvania, at a campus Christmas party at which protesters showed up and stretched out on the floor in a die-in. Gutmann…
Duke a Fat Target for Due Process Lawsuits
Among the many institutions facing due process lawsuits none, perhaps, is more deserving than Duke, a university that all but defined hostility to due process in the lacrosse case. The…
Campus Tolerance for Violence
…Linkser escape. Gorn is a graduate student at Columbia University where she is also a lecturer in environmental health sciences in the Mailman School of Public Health. Her “areas of…
Steven Pinker on the Boycott Israel Dispute at Harvard
Steven Pinker, an experimental psychologist and prominent public intellectual, has written an important letter concerning the latest controversy over Israel at Harvard University, where he is based. Such controversies are…
U. Michigan Liberals Can’t Take a Joke
Simple Justice This post is about the month-long uproar at the University of Michigan triggered by a satire of liberal thought by a conservative Muslim student, Omar Mahmood. As a…
A Harvard Dean’s Strange Comment on Racial Protests
…shape our world’s future on important issues.”And they know that their prospects of admission to law or medical school, for example, and the shining careers they expect will follow thereafter…
Triple Jeopardy and No Lawyers at SMU
Southern Methodist University has become the latest target of the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), signing an agreement admitting to violations of Title IX and adopting new policies. As with…
Campus After-Effects of the Rolling Stone Travesty
…campus? The Post article also buried an item of extraordinary significance on the university front. It turns out that Erdely discovered Jackie and her story not from an “activist” group…
McCarthyite Justice at Wesleyan and Swarthmore
…called the Member’s office and thus violated the college’s confidentiality policy.) The congressional office has refused to supply him with a recommendation for future employment, and he’s suffered reputational harm…
Rubenfeld on Campus Rape
…wonders, does OCR “totally forbid[] university disciplinary panels from considering an accusing student’s sexual history with anyone other than the accused”—a rape shield definition more comprehensive than that of any…
The “Truthy” Project Will Monitor Your Tweets
…publicity hit the project, the university allowed Menczer to delete or make private sensitive Indiana University-supported web pages connected to Truthy, on one of which Menczer is reported to have…
Accreditor Finally Awakens, Notices UNC Scandal
When the history of folly in college accreditation is written, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools will command attention for its outstanding mishandling of academic fraud at the University…
The Smearing of Patrick Witt Continues
…at Yale) are treated. He couldn’t have a lawyer representing him in the panel. (You’d think that problem alone would trouble future attorney Brodsky.) He didn’t have the right to…
Common Core–The Elites Did It
…from the University of Alabama in 1937. America is a big place but we move around and connect with one another, at least if we want to. Sometimes, of course,…