The Use and Misuse of AI in Higher Education Writing Courses
…adopted institution-wide AI policies that encourage the use of AI in the classroom, such as Laurie O. Campbell and Thomas D. Cox at the University of Central Florida, who developed…
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The Passion Project Industry: How College Admissions Activities Lists Killed Intellectual Wonder
…start to develop a vision, an identity, and a purpose, but many students today feel purposeless and lost, unsure of what they want in the present or the future. As…
Accreditation-Reform Hopes for the Second Trump Administration
…and inclusion bureaucrats” and incentivize the adoption of “accelerated … low-cost degrees [with] meaningful job placement.” Campaign statements are seldom a reliable guide to future events. All policy reforms cost…
Cornell’s Ban on Campaigning Undermines Free Speech
…loosen these speech restrictions that would be blatantly unconstitutional in a public university setting. Instead, Cornell should trust its alumni to debate the university’s future vigorously. That trust would demonstrate…
Equal Protection, Racial Preferences, and Professional Military Judgment: What the Judge in SFFA v. USNA Got Wrong
…of racial preferences in the admissions programs of Harvard and the University of North Carolina unconstitutional, colleges and universities, which were not parties to the case reviewed their own programs…
Controversial Research and Duty of Care
…best interest of their students, both domestic and international. Therefore, it is of the utmost imperative that university staff take a risk management approach and are informed of the repercussions…
A Worrying Politicization of Medical Education
…for our higher education system? Should we tolerate politicized movements with partisan aims dictating the content of university programs to the detriment of the impartial training of future doctors, engineers,…
MIT Still Requires DEI Essay of Grad Students After Abandoning Faculty Pledge
…run the university,” Rasmusen said in an email interview with The College Fix. “The Sloan School, where I myself TA’d as a PhD student, is literally at the far end…
DEI Statements Erode the Diversity That Matters. Qualified Candidates Can’t Get Jobs.
…in the future and one’s professional viability is crucial. In fact, I remember times when, after not advancing in a job search, I followed up with the committee chair and…
An AI Essay: The Convergence of MLK and Inauguration Day
…in the midst of a technological tipping point. We see this in faculty guides from the Chronicle of Higher Education and the University of Texas at Austin’s collaboration with Grammarly….
2025: Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss
…San José State University. Most recently, to end the year, the Freedom from Religion Foundation removed a blog post by University of Chicago professor Jerry Coyne about the binary nature…
A Reflection on Violence in College Sports
The rivalry between the University of Michigan (Michigan) and Ohio State is among the most intense and storied in college football, but the last game of the 2024 season was…
Ivies in Crisis
…such as the University of Illinois or Rutgers University have experienced a recent influx of applications as students begin to prioritize vocational education over the classical liberal arts experience. And…
K-12 Teachers Go Through the University Ideology Pipeline
…The book was a key reason I decided to attend Stanford University’s graduate program in education policy and leadership and reenter the world of education. While I didn’t expect to…
A Faculty Guide to AI Pedagogy and a Socratic Experiment
…broader contexts of learning beyond traditional teacher-centered models. A notable example is the University of Texas at Austin’s collaboration with Grammarly to create the Faculty Guide to Getting Started With…
Cheers to the New Year
…enrollment cliff, and the uncertain future of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) initiatives on campuses. The ED is the bullseye of education reformers and policymakers. Members of President Trump’s incoming…
Jimmy Carter: A Decent Man, a Damaging Education Policy
…to much higher costs for students—negating alleged increased student college accessibility—but had such unintended effects as the rise in a costly and harmful university administrative bloat that has crowded out…
When Speaking Truth to Power Becomes a Punishable Offense
…committees for the foreseeable future. The school also imposed a gag order and threatened with future penalty if the professor were to choose to speak out about the disciplinary process….
What Can We Do About Our Corrupted Universities?
…Enlightenment-inspired higher education that I encountered during my 1958-72 studies at Antioch College and the University of Chicago, and at McGill University for much of the time when I was…
America’s Demographic Cliff Will Reshape Higher Education—for the Better
…in the last two decades, and it is unlikely that much can be done to improve the birth rate in the near future. Many colleges and universities are attempting to…
Federal Student Loans Drive Up College Tuition Levels
…enthusiasm to attend their favored institutions, students may tend to ignore their future obligations. Amidst their excitement about offers of admission and financial aid, they may fail to appreciate how…
Feminism’s Greatest Achievement
…for selecting people for the many different roles of industrial and post-industrial society was merit, the assessment based on an individual’s past achievement and potential for future contributions. The underlying…
2024’s Top College Sports Scandals
…prioritize female athletes. Final Thoughts Scandals at the University of Florida, Michigan State University, the University of Michigan, the University of Illinois Springfield (UIS), and the University of Nevada, Reno…
Students Are Unprepared to Read Books
A recent article in the Atlantic revealed the startling truth that students at Columbia University—one of America’s most elite colleges—are unprepared to read books. Columbia University, where I completed my…
Thomas Jefferson: History’s Greatest Hispanist (Part 2)
…Unknown,” alludes to Juan Latino. The first black man to study at a European university, Latino accompanied his master, the young Duke of Sessa, during his liberal arts education at…
10 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting a Counseling Master’s Program
…with permission. When I started classes for a Master’s Degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at the University of Tennessee in August of 2022, I was excited to be starting…
Why Arab Students Remain Silent on Israel
…and a thriving future for all Palestinians and Israelis. BrownU Jews for Ceasefire Now The message of this Brown University group: a call for “an immediate ceasefire and a…
The Demise of Disparity Studies?
…[RELATED: ‘Diversity Is Important?’ That Doesn’t Cut it at University of Oregon.] Disparity Studies Without a Compelling Interest Disparity studies must document both a compelling interest and narrowly tailoring to…
Bootstraps and Bedlam Take Over Higher Ed
…name and email. There’s much at the top of my mind. First up, the post-election circus keeps rolling. I wasn’t shocked when a University of Oregon admin told conservatives to…
Amid Tensions, Sensible Students Push for Civil Discourse
…each other,” chapters were started at the University of Notre Dame, the University of Colorado Boulder, and the University of California Berkeley, and have grown to over 50 college campuses…