Most of the controversy over affirmative action in higher education concerns undergraduate admissions, but the American Educational Research Association has just published what it calls “important findings on the impact of banning affirmative action” in six fields of graduate study — natural sciences, engineering, social sciences, business, education, and humanities – in four states that […]
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The New York Times is featuring a debate of sorts, marred somewhat by structuring matters so that all six debaters are on the same side. The topic, “Is Divestment an Effective Means of Protest?,” refers to campus protests against “big oil.” The arguments yielded no disagreement on whether oil and gas companies are contemptible villains–that […]
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Why are recent college graduates underemployed?, asks a report out today from the Center for College Affordability and Productivity (CCAP). The answer, says the report, is that “a growing disconnect has evolved between employer needs and the volume and nature of college training of students, and that the growth of supply of college-educated labor is […]
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Brooklyn College – my home institution — doesn’t exactly enjoy the best reputation for fair-mindedness regarding Israel. A few years ago, the institution embarrassed itself by requiring incoming freshmen to read one and only one book, written by Moustafa Bayoumi, containing unsubstantiated, inflammatory attacks on U.S. policy toward the Arab-Israeli conflict. To its credit, the […]
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One of the main findings of this year’s American Freshman Survey Is the drift of 2012 first-year college students toward the political center. The report collects 2008 and 2012 results and finds that “in one significant point of comparison, students moved toward the center in self-perceived political orientation, with the ‘middle-of-the-road’ category growing from 43.3% […]
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