It’s not often that a university’s personnel decision is so egregious that even the editorial pages of the local newspaper denounce it. That occurred with Hamline University, whose seemingly rescinded…
…to “repudiate Swamy’s remarks and terminate his association with the University.” The university issued a statement declaring that it is “central to the mission of a university to protect free…
…protected group. Imagine a savvy un-PC second-year political science graduate musing about future specialization. With Commissars everywhere the best strategy is to choose sub-fields that are basically applied math–public choice,…
…Board. The reasons for the tuition hikes are many: strapped state budgets, bloated university administrations, fancy campus facilities, too much subsidization of faculty research instead of teaching. Those University of…
…the very future of the university. Could university officials just admit it? Call the whole deal an investment in the university endowment, and quit trying to fancy it up with…
In 1895, H. G. Wells concocted an imaginary time machine that hurled people into the future and back to the past. Since then, that device has been re-invented by sci-fi…
…by Mark Edmundson of the University of Virginia, and pretty much speaks for itself. Edmundson describes privileged students who have access to a first-rate education at a top-notch university. “What…
…entitled “Cheap for Whom?” showed one way that the university system is rigged in favor of the rich. It said: “Average taxpayers provide more in subsidies to elite public and…
A few years ago, at a luncheon at Harvard University, Larry Summers noted an interesting fact. If you look at the top ten players in any industry or business 50…
…are vulnerable, and men are the cause of their vulnerability. At one elite university, at least, the first thing a female freshman gets from the administration is a whistle to…
…the Journal of College and University Law, “Courts, universities, and student defendants all seem to agree that the appropriate standard of proof in student disciplinary cases is one of ‘clear…
…do not share a similar respect for the will of the people as Brown. SB 185 would have allowed California’s two systems of higher education – the University of California…
…at Rutgers for many years. We never know with complete confidence what will work to support and dignify a society and how what we do now will affect the future….
…and soldiers? There’s a plausible explanation that much of the media have missed: the frustrated expectations of young high school and university graduates. A great many young graduates had struggled…
…America’s economic and political elite, from future presidents of the United States on down, belonged to one Greek house or other while they attended college. Tom Wolfe, in his 2004…
…Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a nonprofit that promotes academic freedom on university campuses, reminded Harvard of its role “as a great liberal arts institution.” The administration of HBS…
…as they were when the attacks occurred. Concern about ” Islamophobia,” American soul-searching, anti-Western resentments and the future of Islam take center stage, while commemoration of the heroism of the…
…so is clearly going to play the lead role in present and future climate change. (Ian Clark, hydro-geologist and professor of earth sciences, University of Ottawa) One can have surface…
…women themselves. I once asked the long-ago Vice-Provost for University Life at Penn, Jim Bishop, when this stuff—now mandated by the federal government—was first coming in at the University. “If…
…any state requirements for it to be legally offering postsecondary distance or correspondence education in that state.” But when the University Professional and Continuing Education Association and the WICHE Cooperative…
The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) made its name as a respectable association dedicated to promoting the interests of the academy and protecting the academic freedom of professors. Now,…
…university. Some threats tried to curtail politically unpopular research. Others tried to restrict what students could say. The aim was always the same–to advance the censors’ political agenda by stifling…
…the 50,000-student University of Texas-Austin, and its technology-focused cousin in the Texas public system, the 49,000-student Texas A&M University in College Station. According to UT-Austin’s own website, UT-Austin’s annual budget…
…helping the Education Department decide whether the University of Phoenix is in compliance with new gainful employment rules. Both agencies, the IRS in particular, are bound by strict laws forbidding…
…case, Duke redid its campus sexual assault policies. Although the campus was home to the highest-profile case of a false criminal allegation in a decade, the university adjusted its procedures…
A growing chorus of critics says a college education is finished as the ticket to economic success and a middle-class life. The economy of the future, these critics suggest, actually…
…of the loans must begin is nine months after graduation – for many students, in the almost unimaginable future. Students didn’t realize that the burden of large student loans could…
Let’s face it, our noble efforts to detoxify today’s PC-infected university have largely failed and the future looks bleak. This is not to say that the problem is incurable–though it…
…politicians, and even students for the “decline of the American university,” Anderson observes, pointing fingers at them is, well, pointless. Ultimately, the only people with the authority to take action…
…$10 million to Oxford University. The gift will set up an institute at Oxford aimed at steering university economists away from support for free markets and deregulation, and in the…