…recent advertisement for a literature position at American University. American is a solid research university that services the DC area, solid because any institution of its size with an admissions…

…in the arts and sciences, as well as applications of law in areas where programs have some natural advantage (such as the University of Montana in natural resources, the University…

…programs at “bad” schools. For example, I recently applied a new hypothetical accountability metric to public colleges in Texas, and one of the worst-performing schools was Texas Southern University, which…

…in 2020, there were forty-three separate efforts to defund or disband the campus police. Portland State University has already disarmed its campus police. This focus on the police may be,…

…and inclusion” (DEI). In a survey of 220 college and university libraries that had conducted “DEI audits,” published last year by information provider Gale Cengage and Library Journal, one third…

…that diversity not only benefits minority students but all students and the university as a whole. This belief is accepted by woke administrators as a given, but it is certainly…

…the university’s indifference to their emotional wellbeing, indigenous members of the community would abandon their attempts to influence the direction of the university, and that would diminish the university’s future….

…inevitably function as ideological litmus tests—and huge failures of priority. Unfortunately, they’re alive and well at the University of Missouri. To download and view the University of Missouri’s Inclusion, Diversity…

…documented the adoption of such practices as official university policy under former University of Texas President Gregory Fenves. On July 16, 2018, he met in person with your senior policy…

…the Alderman Library at the University of Virginia. It’s an Argentine take on the political landscape at the end of WWII. Left to right, we have Miguel Primo de Rivera,…

Diversity statements—short essays that express one’s past contributions to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and future plans to advance the cause—have become ubiquitous in academia. As I’ve written before, many…

…existing scholarship endowment fund we had created at my university. The university often provides additional matching funds from unrestricted gifts to enhance the impact of a donation, but it would…

…ideology. Next is a brief look at Florida State University, which represents well American universities in general. According to Christopher Rufo, “Florida State University has adopted a series of ‘diversity,…

…and unknown futures. Conservatives are not skeptical of science so much as they are of Science. In 2020, on the eve of the COVID pandemic, New York University philosopher Michael…

…II, federal funding of university research has doubled roughly every seven years, to its present $85 billion. The romantic image has been tarnished in recent years, but federal funding has…

…metric. A bachelor’s degree in dance at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Charlotte, a master’s in social work at UNC-Chapel Hill, and a bachelor’s in sociology at Elizabeth…

…large. More importantly, instead of fostering individual agency, major American higher education institutions have turned into harbingers of despair, hopelessness, and disempowerment. Stanford University, for instance, recently published a “language…

…around 1,800 employees. Why does Stanford University need approximately ten times as many employees as Ohio University did over half a century ago? Stanford leadership would no doubt scoff and…

…Perspectives titled “Racial Inequality in Psychological Research: Trends of the Past and Recommendations for the Future,” whose lead author is Steven O. Roberts, associate professor of psychology at Stanford University….

…and in pressuring schools such as the University of California, Davis and the University of Utah to affirm that racism is a mental health crisis. Columbia University and the University…

…of activists, often violent, who demand their self-defined rights, one of which is to take over the present and future destinies of your children. What most parents do not understand…

…University in 1995 to help start the University College branch. There, Dr. Buff built an evening program for working adults who aspired to become educators. He based the program on…

…The occasion? In 2020, one Steven Roberts of Stanford University published the usual farrago of identity-politics activism that passes for professional research among the woke, copy-pasted to apply to psychology….

…several years and has provided evidence supporting it. In 2019, Bucknell University’s former vice president for enrollment management, Bill Conley, penned one such article, describing how college enrollment constriction had…

…Barack Obama presidential campaigns. The dean of another Ivy League law school, Theodore Ruger of the University of Pennsylvania, is fighting to fire one of his most distinguished scholars, Amy…

…or “triggering,” the ghost of Lysenko smiles. Last year’s winner was Williams College Professor Phoebe Cohen, who was one of the keyboard warriors who helped cow MIT into disinviting University…

…ed news is not all bad. It could be worse, and, most importantly, what instigates our mental distress also provides hope for the future. Today’s campus insanity cannot be sustained….

A Two-Part Essay on the University Law School in the American Legal System “The logic of the common law is really economics. The teaching of law could be simplified by…

…personal health management. It was rejected by one of the University of Chicago’s well-known law school lecturers and senior federal appellate judge Frank Easterbrook, when students of Indiana University appealed…