…and also published in the Chronicle on April 12 headlined: “Black Studies: ‘Swaggering into the Future’: A New Generation of Ph.D.s Advances the Discipline.” Patton wrote: “Northwestern University’s first cohort…
…alleges that it still has to fight for legitimacy and respect. As an African American Studies professor at Northwestern University put it in the Chronicle, citing a conference entitled “A…
…as Arizona State University, Iowa State University, the University of Kansas, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign levy significantly higher tuition on students majoring in engineering, chemistry, biology, business,…
…Harvard to claim her as a minority–but the real lesson in this latest of partisan battles has more to do with university rather than electoral politics. For those who have…
…The Future‘” and “A New Generation of Black-Studies Ph.D.’s,” as well as a blog post by Naomi Schaefer Riley that has ignited a firestorm of controversy in the comments, “The…
…by University of Virginia computer-science professor David Evans, Coursera started out with eight courses in computer science, mathematics, economics, and linguistics taught by professors at Stanford and the University of…
…Elizabeth Warren, a well-paid academic, claimed Native American status based on supposedly being 1/32 Cherokee. But the “white” plaintiff who unsuccessfully challenged the University of Washington Law School’s affirmative action…
…and Policy Review. They plan to include their findings in an amicus brief supporting affirmative action in Fisher v. University of Texas. According to a celebration of their work just…
The problem is stated bluntly in this report from the American Association of Community Colleges, entitled, “Reclaiming the American Dream: Community Colleges and the Nation’s Future.” The report contains an…
…against realism. Let me speculate a bit about the future. The project commences when Amber Bernstein, a well-known trend-setter and Ford Foundation Professor of Gender Inequality, reads her paper, “The…
…course materials just don’t excite them, or because they don’t seem relevant to their backgrounds and futures. But another reason is that neither the pace of the course nor the…
…University in suburban Cobb County, Georgia, on March 16, announced the purpose of the conference in the call for papers and on the English Department’s website with the quotation that…
…University spokesperson to ask if an investigation was occurring. He declined to respond. And there is no indication that at any point in the future Yale is going to investigate…
Are the 234,000 students enrolled in the massive University of California system receiving an education or a re-education? It’s the latter–or something fairly close–according to “A Crisis of Competence,” a…
…actual cost of educating college students. In his popular book, The Economic Naturalist, Cornell University economist Robert Frank claims that tuition payments cover only a fraction of the total cost…
The recent story of the City University of New York is a tale of CUNY leadership making a series of bold and positive moves, and having each one blocked or…
…even be “diverse,” especially since he or she is seen as the representative of one racial or ethnic group? Take Juliet V. Garcia who has been president of the University…
…the University of Texas’s use of racial preferences in admissions, arguing that the university should be allowed to use race to achieve a “critical mass” of blacks and Hispanics (that…
…disturbing news reports, I want to assure the members of the Yale Muslim Students Association that they can count on the full support of Yale University. Apart from the open-ended…
…and leading to armies of new university bureaucrats, million-dollar college presidents, an academic arms race and other pathologies; 2. This, in turn, has thwarted university productivity growth and helps explain…
Soviet ideologues were famous for adjusting Marxism to the zigs and zags of history, but they were pikers compared to today’s campus affirmative-action apparatchiks. The latest installment from university diversicrats…
…eligibility for admission to a university. About 18% of this group began studies at a university. Another 18% began studies at a polytechnic school (post-secondary schools of applied sciences established…
Another racial hoax on campus surfaced this week, this one at University of Wisconsin-Parkside. WTMJ reported on Feb 2nd that a noose had been found in a residence hall on…
…costs, but this is nothing more than theatrics.” There are now more college administrators than faculty at California State University, and colleges, partly to comply with bureaucratic mandates, are creating…
…on anticipated future benefits.” Left unstated was who “we” are. Looking to the Future, Not the Law Stevens made that same point, and only that point, in his U.S. News…
…legal work to temporary employees, many of them abroad, the number of full-time U.S. legal jobs has declined by 15,000, according to a Northwestern University survey. Meanwhile, the number of…
…intellectually and morally unsettled.” He describes Augusta State’s arguments as a “doctrinal position” that the university seeks to “impose” on its students–as if ensuring that future counselors won’t cite only…
…controversy, a summary. Keeton So Far It concerns a court case in Georgia. Jennifer Keeton was a graduate student at Augusta State University (ASU) where she began studying for a…
…the U.S. economy now and in the future, this country is largely undereducated for the future. We are producing too few BA degrees and advanced degrees relative to the skill…
…some of U.S. News’ high ranking national universities, such as Wake Forest University, Worcester Polytechnic Institute and American University, are categorized as test-optional. It now seems likely that this trend…