…at home at Yale. The university’s troubling new policies toward sexual assault allegations reached public attention through the New York Times‘s attempt to smear former Yale quarterback Patrick Witt, who…
By Stuart Taylor, Jr. and Richard Sander Even for people who approve in principle of some use of racial preferences in university admissions — notably including Justice Anthony Kennedy —…
…no dissent allowed–the university describes its “primary purpose as a public research university is the creation, dissemination, preservation, and application of knowledge for the betterment of our global society.” [emphasis…
The University of Michigan history department has 28 tenured or tenure-track professors whose research specialties in some way relate to U.S. history after 1789. Race is the favorite topic; at…
…as those graphed by Norén. Take, for instance, the University of Michigan’s affirmative action policies. The policies include such banalities as a requirement that “university publications relating to employment ….
The University of California (UC) has put the kibosh on plans to set up National Dream University, a low-cost, low-admissions-standards college where illegal immigrants were to be trained in activism…
Political scientists Gary King (Harvard University) and Maya Sen (University of Rochester) recently produced a working paper titled, “The Troubled Future of Colleges and Universities.” Everyone interested in higher education…
…NYU for an accurate early history of the university. Founded in 1831 in lower Manhattan, the university soon moved north to Washington Square, where it competed for space with New…
…Doing more of the same isn’t a realistic answer. America is in the midst of what University of Tennessee Prof. Glenn Reynolds calls the “higher education bubble.” As with the…
I chair the Governing Board at Grantham University in Kansas City, Missouri, an on-line, for-profit institution. Grantham diverges from Congress’ caricature of for-profits. More than ninety percent of its students…
…even more interesting is at stake in the embrace of a scientific perspective that encourages enormous pessimism about the future of humanity, not to mention all other life. The historic link…
…in Maryland have teamed up to establish “National Dream University” for the undocumented. The tuition is low: just $65 per credit hour, in contrast to $396 per credit hour that…
…the coursework. In either case, the courses added another purpose to the university in America rather than replace the university altogether. Online education will do the same. Universities will offer…
The University of Texas has filed its main brief in Fisher v. University of Texas, and it’s a doozy. It argues, among other oddities, that the continuing “underrepresentation” of blacks…
…otherwise obtain a degree. A pioneer in this field was the University of Virginia’s School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS), which — contra the recent allegation by the university’s governing board…
…happen on or near their campuses. It is named for Jeanne Clery, a Lehigh University freshman raped and murdered in her dorm in 1986. Statutes named after victims of rare…
…scraping near the bottom of the barrel to find their future educators. According to Arthur Levine, director of the Education Schools Project, although “secondary school teachers do well compared…
…college tuition. There are two problems with this argument. One, given the grade inflation that pervades American schools, high-school GPA is hardly determinative of future success. Likewise, the major students…
…hallmark of the modern university. Despite the Freeh Report’s suggestion, it is highly unlikely that even a Chief Compliance Officer is capable of enforcing the massive number of federal and…
…voting members wanted to reinstate the university’s controversially ousted President Teresa Sullivan–or didn’t. If the board refused to “make a clear, detailed, and unified statement on the future leadership of…
…Last week the op-ed section featured a complaint, Normal as Folk, by University of Michigan professor of “history and theory of sexuality” David Halperin. His issue is that the growing…
The Star-Tribune opening paragraph–“The Minnesota Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the University of Minnesota’s discipline of a student over Facebook comments that her instructors found threatening, rejecting claims that flunking…
…story called “The Pedestrian,” the novel is set in a future America in which books are burned because they may cause unhappiness and dissent. The theme is not a new…
…stacked the board of trustees, made an unannounced decision to convert a liberal arts college into a major research university, and “earned” themselves huge commissions on sales of their own…
…— or that at least its most deleterious effects might be reined in — when the Court revisits affirmative action next fall in Fisher v. University of Texas. It would…
…associate degree and a bachelor’s degree from two private colleges, as well as two master’s degrees over the years from the public Towson State University in Maryland. In 1992 she…
…being critical of “diversity,” affirmative action and, especially, Black Studies. I learned this lesson in 1997 when, as a Regent of the University of California (UC), I criticized Ethnic Studies…
…would obviously be witness tampering, and it looks like that here as well, but a Brown administrator said there was no violation of university procedures in the secret meeting and…
As university after university follows the OCR’s mandate to lower the threshold for evaluating campus sexual assault claims–and thereby to increase the likelihood of convictions from false accusations–it’s worth keeping…
…the 1960s, university-based social science research began altering this understanding. To condense a long story, empirically-based quantitative social science research needed a simple, clear-cut measure of “middle class,” and utilizing…