Trusting the ‘Experts’ is Risky Business
…that mental health therapy can be lifesaving when the right client meets the right practitioner, today’s colleges are turning out cohort after cohort of indoctrinated therapists. The odds are getting…
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The Baffling ‘Bull’ Behind Title IX
…college campuses are increasing. Worse yet, as this essay suggests, there is reason to believe they may be getting worse. Photo by lexiconimages — Adobe Stock — Asset ID#: 309052877…
The Higher Education Bubble is Ready to Burst
…freedom. And like the housing market bubble before it, the higher education bubble is ready to burst. Beginning in the 1960s, American colleges and universities began accepting more students, and…
I Was Canceled
…educators. Education was always valued and encouraged in my household. Attending college was a foregone conclusion for me. My entire career in K-12 education was directed towards getting into college…
Educating for American Ignorance
When it comes to civic literacy, the average American is hardly a rocket scientist—and the problem seems to be getting worse. This is, of course, not exactly news for experienced…
Dos and Don’ts for Higher Ed Accountability
…information of those likely to give a school a low rating. And colleges can also manipulate graduation rates. For example, when Chile started holding colleges responsible for the debts of…
Not Just Semantics: Stanford’s “Harmful Words” Problem Is Serious
…educational literature. This was back when political correctness was just getting launched in a big way, and indeed one of the reasons for that particular revision of the Thesaurus was…
Collegiate Complicity in the Erosion of American Identity
…has largely ended. But it is worse: we are now lying about our past, telling stories that simply are not true. And the universities are at the forefront of this…
The Biden Loan Forgiveness: Additional Thoughts
…Plan (And What To Do About Them)”] Colleges Should Have “Skin in the Game” Colleges are responsible for at least part of the student loan crisis, often luring students to…
Biden’s Student Loan Write-off Plan Will Cost Over a Trillion Dollars, Not $300 Billion
…Summers calls suspending student loan payments the “worst idea” because it transfers wealth to “highly paid surgeons, lawyers and investment bankers.” Inflation and inequality are getting worse due to the…
A Game of Leftist Whac-A-Mole: Why College Presidents Are Quitting
…forward to wearing this hat, but that bright-eyed naivety is sure to wear off before long. Only after getting battered a few times do they realize that by making such…
The Logical and Rhetorical Problems With Student Loan Forgiveness
…form of loan forgiveness. But even if repayment burdens are reasonable for most, what if they are getting worse? There is considerable debate over whether student loan burdens have been…
Student Loan Suspension Robs the Poor and Enriches the Privileged
…some progressives. Inflation and inequality are getting worse due to the suspension, says Matthew Yglesias, who co-founded the progressive website Vox, and wrote for Slate and The American Prospect. In…
Social Equity and the Re-Segregation of Higher Education
…erode and discard merit-based standards. K-12 schools cancel advanced electives and proudly admit their goal is to stop the smarter, harder-working, and most focused students from getting ahead of those…
Work, Not Woke—Why on Race, U.S. Higher Education Should Copy the U.S. Army
…pernicious effects reducing the number of black STEM professionals. Such policies worsened both white racist stereotyping and black alienation, turning students who would have succeeded at good colleges into relative…
The Mandatory Banality of University Presidents
…these colleges has a meaningful connection to the incompetent, malevolent, or indifferent actions of the Minneapolis police officers involved in Floyd’s death. Yet the college presidents feel compelled to say…
How Low Can Higher Education Go?
…certainly alarming. But the level of our alarm should rise even higher when we contemplate one simple fact: teachers in high schools and elementary schools are all trained in colleges…
Will the Universities Start to Collapse?
…humanities, which at most colleges and universities have devolved into cesspools of identity politics and grievance studies, should be starved of funding and ultimately shut down. It’s an idea that…
The Four Unspoken Rules for Getting Into College
…Journal reporter, wrote a great book in 2005: The Price of Admission: How America’s Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges—and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates. The lure…
Reminding Us Why Racial Preferences are a Bad Idea
…and it’s impossible to see that colleges and universities are making any effort at all toward adopting race-neutral admission and hiring policies. Like Malaysia, we hear that America isn’t yet…
DeVos Urges Campuses to Promote Free Speech
…a proficient knowledge of American history. And in previous years, high school seniors did even worse: only 13 percent were proficient or better. Just think about the real-world consequences of…
When Students Kill Important College Courses
…after them because these activists feel that studying Ancient Greece, foundational to Western civilization, is ipso facto “racist.” Related: Our Colleges Are Getting Worse-3 Proposals to Help Save Them I…
Our Colleges Are Getting Worse—Three Proposals to Help Save Them
…Other data confirm those findings Why Have Colleges Gotten Worse? Researchers suspect that the principal reason is that colleges have become less rigorous. Colleges more readily tolerate students doing little…
Charles Murray on Why He Was Silenced at Middlebury
…stand. I’m sure the pattern differs by geography and type of institution. But my impression is that the problem at elite colleges and universities is extremely widespread. In such colleges,…
There Is No Campus Rape Epidemic, But a Lot of Media Malpractice
…on college campuses fails to report in any meaningful way (if at all) the actual procedures that colleges employ in sexual assault cases. Richard Pérez-Peña, a veteran reporter who joined…
How Chinese Students Are Changing Our Colleges
…students’ falling behind as being his “’problem as much as it was theirs.’” But it seems to be getting worse. Rather than insisting that Chinese students perform at the same…
A Conversation with Jonathan Haidt
…whether they’re modeling it from their professors. I do believe it’s in place by the time they arrive in college. And colleges are teaching this. Now, some colleges are much,…
DIVESTERS: NO FREE SPEECH FOR OPPONENTS
…this immediately – they are accused of climate-change denial, oligarchical behavior and, in almost every case, money grubbing. Most US colleges promote sustainability and nearly 700 American colleges have taken…
A Conservative Path to Higher Ed Reform
…four solutions I’ll zip through them quickly. We need to give colleges a great stake in student success. We do this by giving colleges skin in the game. Colleges essentially…
Why Tenure Makes Teaching Better
…tenure. At most of our colleges and universities (most private residential colleges and regional state universities), the teaching load is pretty demanding and salaries aren’t so great. Anyone who dedicates…