…including UCLA, Stanford, the University of Chicago, the University of Michigan, and Georgetown, on topics ranging from various gender issues— feminism and the law, the politics of rape, domestic violence,…

…force of law, it requires all colleges in the state to use the preponderance-of-evidence threshold in sexual assault cases. So even if a future OCR, one more attuned to due…

…means an extreme outlier. Later, I recall reading in a student publication that the average grade for all courses given in the university was something like a C+. In large,…

…risk; so does cultural progress. The current and future corporate university is risk-averse. Negative results get you “not renewed.” Research with no immediate application does too. Controversy is and will…

…is of serious public concern. Student government budgets are staggering. The Associated Students of the University of Oregon (ASUO) “presides over a $15 million budget that runs 413 pages[.]” The…

The Witherspoon Institute Within a few years of the September 11 attacks, anyone on a university campus could observe the steady growth of programs and institutes promoting global citizenship. By…

…the core, not just about the safety of their Jewish neighbors, but about the future of the seemingly liberal, enlightened societies they belong to.” In making its denunciation of antisemitism…

…the equivalent of just a bachelor’s degree from a foreign university. As the evidence suggests, the domestic pipeline of STEM-qualified workers is more than ample to satisfy virtually all employer…

…China might actually be an obstacle to admission. This seems so at the flagship University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign. Inside Higher Edreports that this year Illinois recruited “about 600…

…contact information? Once the investigation commenced, how would the university assemble relevant witnesses? Will the university advise members of the current graduating class to retain their e-mails and other electronic…

…state or federal aid. The State University of New York’s highly regarded office of institutional research recently compiled a comprehensive database of college and university expenditures, including most U.S. colleges…

…“developed economies” and include two in the United States: Dominican University of California, and the New York Public Library. (Two other hub partners are based in the U.S. but will…

…Of course, many much more prominent and prolific Obama-supporting law professors (easy, since Obama published nothing on the subject) do not “respect the Constitution” — see, for example, the University…

…on the way out. In last year’s Fisher v. Texas case (dealing with race-based admissions at the University of Texas’s undergraduate program) the Supreme Court reaffirmed that race-based classifications must…

…Likewise, protesters at Haverford College decried the selection of former University of California chancellor Robert Birgeneau, who is otherwise liberally inclined, for his “half-hearted apology” over rough campus police handling…

…Change On the whole, though, American colleges and universities have been very eager to conform to the sustainability mindset. Some 680 institutions have signed the American College and University Presidents’…

…will be poor in future years.” Karlgaard, who presumably feels compelled to offer evidence for predictions he makes about his own business, offers none at all for this one about…

…the early American republic. Just as we ask “How could they be so irrational?” or “How could they be so cruel?” future historians will ask of present-day professors and university…

Few universities are less well-suited to adjudicate sexual assault cases than Duke. The university’s president and judicial affairs staff remains the same as 2006-2007, when their egregious mishandling of events…

Six million fifty seven thousand six hundred and fifteen dollars. That’s how much American’s highest paid public university president, E. Gordon Gee, made in his final year at the helm…

Stanford University’s board of trustees has voted to divest from the university’s $18.7 billion endowment all of its holdings in coal-based energy companies. The university, which is private, has not…

…found in a chapter in The Politically Correct University written by Senator Hank Brown, John Cooney, and Michael Poliakoff. In brief: the university had strong tenure and post-tenure requirements on…

A recent bombshell article by National Review‘s Kevin D. Williamson may elevate the impeachment proceedings against University of Texas Regent Wallace Hall to a national issue. “There is something rotten…

…527 U.S. 116, 124 (1999).) The new guidance will create serious legal problems for both public and private colleges, as I will explain in future commentaries. As I explained over…

…the accused student was suspended–but not expelled–from the university. (University administrators–people who don’t have a due process-friendly reputation–informed Sclove that the punishment was consistent with precedent.) In response, Sclove and…