A New Age of Campus Censorship
…censorship also includes one of my “favorite” cases, which involved a professor first getting in trouble for quoting one of my all-time favorite, yet short-lived shows, Firefly, and then being…
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‘The Rape Epidemic on Campus Does Not Exist’
…problem which is unfortunately, I think, getting worse. We’ve seen some push back from elite law faculty, but that’s been it. HOWARD HUSOCK: Speaking of elite law faculty, I want…
Why Obama’s College Plan Is Doomed to Fail
…are the real, deeply intertwined problems here. Free tuition will fix neither of them and might make one worse. Call It Grade 13 Community college is often the first choice…
Obama’s Tentative Plan for College Ratings
…without getting a new degree at all. The administration seems intent to stick with the “gainful employment” rules it has placed on for-profit colleges. Will nonprofits now be measured the…
How Data-Mining Hurts Higher Education
…of getting a good job after graduation are also reduced. Data-mining helps college administrators play the averages. It can pretty well help colleges spot patterns in class attendance, diligence on…
How Reform Conservatives Can Help Higher Education
…getting better, while most of them are getting worse. The remedy for this problem, many of our colleges (out of self-interest), our foundations, and our government think, is to get…
Another Wacky Freshman Orientation
The College Fix If you’ve ever wondered what goes on at freshmen orientation sessions at small liberal arts colleges, then a recent post on Reddit will give you some insights….
What STEM Crisis? There Isn’t One
…groups have duped Americans thinking that economic disaster looms unless colleges keep churning out more civil engineers, plant biologists and computer scientists The alarmists have done all this to create…
Grade Inflation 1, Princeton 0
…It’s also unclear how stressful the new environment could have possibly been, given the lack of evidence that a slightly lower GPA makes a lot of difference in getting the…
Why So Few Conservatives in Higher Ed?
…an utter gamble.” The odds are getting steadily worse, and if you’re a rational person calculating the odds, you may shy away from a Ph.D. track, or consider non-academic paths…
Should You Avoid Ivy League Schools?
…their college education. In reality, students from all types of colleges would love these high-paying jobs, but hiring discrimination in favor of elite colleges is too powerful. So it’s easy…
Why Accreditation is a Waste of Time
…our colleges more similar and more content-light. A True Farce The accreditation process is worse than a farce because it is a waste of time and treasure. And that in…
Questioning the Data on Sexual Assault
…colleges and universities seem intent on responding to the “crisis” by laying down more rules and enforcing them more rigorously. After an era in which too many colleges swept the…
A Fair and Balanced View of For-Profit Colleges – in the New York Times
…Eduardo Porter, “The Bane and the Boon of For-Profit Colleges.” Because many liberal politicians (most notably Iowa’s Tom Harkin) have had knives drawn against for-profit higher education, you might expect…
Making College Pay Off
…are four generic problems facing the preponderance of American colleges and universities, most of them festering for decades, but getting worse as college enrollment has expanded and student selectivity declined:…
Derek Bok’s Magnum Opus
…public colleges and universities accountable for any state subsidies they are provided. Legislatures want answers to their questions about productivity of colleges and universities. What Legislators Say “Tell us what…
Too Many People Are Going to College
…and the future looks worse: growth in the number of graduates in this decade is likely to be nearly three times as great as the projected number of jobs requiring…
Why Men Are Avoiding College
…nation’s universities and colleges, we would have a national uproar, but men are now fleeing in large numbers and society barely notices. Numbers tell the story. Men have been falling…
Let’s Scuttle the University as Hotel
…part of some character-building community. But these days? Give me a break. Dorm life, even at some very good colleges, makes students worse or at least keeps them stuck in…
The Market for College Grads Keeps Changing
…joining the National Guard. He had spent the summer working for his father, power-washing houses. “Was college worth getting in the amount of debt I’m in?” he asked. “At this…
Fishy Courses: The Fake Red Snappers of Academe
…what is actually being taught in a course at most state colleges or universities, let alone private colleges and universities. Texas was an exception because it passed a law requiring…
The Core Value of Higher Education Is Money?
For many economists, the big point about the current higher education bubble is that it deserves to burst. College education is overpriced because colleges have been getting away with charging…
The Student Loan Problem Is Only Getting Worse
…which are set aside for poor students and disbursed by colleges rather than the federal government and. This news broke shortly after the Wall Street Journal reported that the number of…
Vague-Talking and the Loss of English
…finding talented students from colleges such as Columbia, NYU, Pace University, and the senior colleges of New York’s City University system. Suddenly, however, it became difficult to recruit articulate candidates…
Three Pell Grant Scams
…75 percent– have gone to students attending not-for-profit colleges. The implication of the criticism, of course, is that for-profit institutions (or at least many of them) are diploma mills, whereas…
Here’s How the Scholar Disappears
Political scientists Gary King (Harvard University) and Maya Sen (University of Rochester) recently produced a working paper titled, “The Troubled Future of Colleges and Universities.” Everyone interested in higher education…
The Higher Ed Bubble–Not as Big as You Think
…the main interest of the top administrators. Colleges Paranoid About Retention To defend some administrative expansion for a moment: Fund raising, admissions, and “retention” have become much more complicated. Colleges…
Affirmative Action Starts to Unravel
…is any worse or any more embarrassing than the discrimination against all other non-preferred ethnic groups and whites — including CUNY’s “White/Jewish” group — that they happily accept with equanimity?…
How Academics Concocted a New ‘Middle Class’
…definition of “middle class” so just getting the degree, it was claimed, secured the American Dream. And with this new definition in place, a government committed to economic improvement began…
The ‘Inequality’ Movement–A Campus Product
…has anything to do with that. There’s not a ton of evidence that things are getting worse for the middle class right now. There are a lot of studies that…