College Football’s Lost Virtue
…met by all other admitted students. The academic standards don’t need to be those of the Ivy League, but there should be higher standards and demands for in-class learning so…
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Resistance to Trump’s Orders Sows Doubt About Reform
…by bloated administrative offices—has imposed race-based policies that flout civil rights law while pushing partisan indoctrination on students. You don’t have to dig deep to hit radicalism. In a report…
Back to Stick Figures: How Woke Warriors Destroyed Anthropology
…dignified treatment of their dead.” Once academic freedom is relinquished and the data—images and all—are in the hands of activist descendant communities, don’t expect new scientific discoveries. Instead, expect woke…
The Passion Project Industry: How College Admissions Activities Lists Killed Intellectual Wonder
…and interpersonal development. As teenagers, we are all lost. We don’t yet know who we are or what drives us in this world. By our late teenage years, we should…
MIT Still Requires DEI Essay of Grad Students After Abandoning Faculty Pledge
…and the Trump administration is about to begin … For the foreseeable future, I don’t see any substantial pressure for more DEI,” Sindhusen said. He said MIT’s Civil Discourse Project…
Social Promotion Fails Students and Colleges
…they won’t even know why because we don’t know what we don’t know. They will believe that some injustice has been committed. [RELATED: Grade Inflation Is the New Affirmative Action]…
Computer Science Is Not a Science
…In physics, you learn the rules of matter, energy, and motion. In chemistry, you learn, first of all, the periodic table of elements, and then all the molecules into which…
Is Your Therapist Compromised?
…that are head and shoulders above others. In other words, we don’t know what makes therapy work. Yet CACREP wants counseling programs to lead with an agenda that, ‘strengthens the…
Students, Here’s How to Get Some Sleep.
…In fact, research suggests that your learning ability can be lowered by as much as 40 percent when you’re not sleeping properly. Don’t let your studies get in the way…
Thomas Jefferson: History’s Greatest Hispanist (Part 2)
…part of Don Quijote, the miscegenation theme signals the hidalgo’s insanity and its cure. When Sancho realizes in DQ 1.25 that Dulcinea del Toboso is really Aldonza Lorenzo, we learn…
10 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting a Counseling Master’s Program
…a new chapter in my life filled with learning. Since that time I have indeed learned a lot, and if I had known even half of these things beforehand I…
University of Nevada, Reno’s Problematic Push for Federal Hispanic Status
…the university incentivizes them to learn less, be exposed to less diversity of academic subjects, and spend tuition dollars on what they already know—according to the stereotype. Other universities, no…
Message for UATX Polaris Project: Build Now
…between studying the process of creation and creating something yourself, especially for teenagers. Things don’t get much better with the “Polaris Inspirations” course, which follows: This course uses case studies…
A Report on the American Classroom 2024: Is Free Speech Just a Matter of Process?
…several years of failed efforts to restrict faculty speech directly: [M]ost educational censorship bills don’t fulminate against critical race theory or the New York Times’ 1619 Project. Instead, they are…
Indigenous Peoples’ Day: Cherokee Leader Stand Watie
…Watie, don’t expect their public-school peers to be learning the same. Expect the kids in the government schools and lousy universities to offer nothing but a blank stare if Jimmy…
Native Americans Want Their S**t Back
…new hat—making it a living sacred object (at.όow), just like the original”—this now seems like a recipe for disaster. Let’s hope the spirits don’t get too restless! Contemporary Art…
Higher Education Shouldn’t Mean Higher Indoctrination
…a controversy occurred on campus.” Students don’t know what they can say or what to expect from administrations as a response, so they don’t say anything at all. In other…
Reflections on the Loss of Rigor in College Classes
…you know, the easier it is to learn. But we now see often-unprepared students get through courses with little effort, probably learning little, but with reasonable grades. In time, it…
Federal Overreach is Threatening Innovation in Online Education
…a “next-generation open platform for developing, delivering, improving, and researching adaptive learning experiences. Designed to leverage learning science while simultaneously facilitating learning research, Torus builds on the historic success of…
The Trouble with Three-Letter Acronyms
…on articulating measurable learning outcomes for every program and policy. As my colleague David Campbell often reminded me, “If you don’t know where you’re going, you’re likely to end up…
The Great Powder Grab
…houses and that such bans only put law-abiding citizens at a disadvantage against criminals—who famously don’t care about large-capacity magazine bans—and thereby undermine public safety. Art by Beck & Stone…
“Techne”: The Future Students—and Parents—Want
…students. But, having made a promise, the college has a moral obligation to try to keep it. If you don’t make techne courses a requirement, many students will fail to…
Students’ Availability Heuristic Turned Campuses into Nightmares: This Semester, Professors Must Break It
…noted, “Some academic disciplines are not devoted to the search for the truth. They don’t share that basic principle. They are largely devoted to the imposition of unified political belief.”…
Weiss: National Science Foundation’s New Mandate Will Censor Researchers
…part of their historical trauma, when they have always been depicted negatively. They don’t want that to happen again, so they want to make sure that if you’re going to…
Our Teachable Moment: Is Anyone Learning Anything?
…all, is derived from the Greek word “schole,” which means leisure. The relationship between politics and genuine leisure—by which I don’t mean staring at a screen—is worth talking about. My…
Can Harvard Faculty and Students Trust a Dean Who Wants to Punish Speech?
…history. Instead, they will use their “voice” to exert influence for change “from within.” Alumni and faculty don’t want Harvard to decline or fail. When they critique Harvard, they show…
‘ChatGPT Is Really Helpful:’ The Martin Center Interviews Carolina’s AI Experts
…enough background understanding and enough practice with AI so that they don’t feel like they’re just consumers in this AI space but can produce their own knowledge by making smart…
Clemson’s New Elevator to Success: This One Weird Trick Will Double Your Research
…chapter. And when you do, conceal the source instead of citing it. And don’t use quotation marks—these would tip off the editor and the reader. Double your research. Elevate Clemson….
Against Democracy in Education: Reading, Writing, Shooting, and Smoking in Tocqueville, Jefferson, and Palafox
…more than five thousand battles in times that saw few books come to light. And she didn’t need books to found and extend her monarchy. If you don’t believe me,…
Developing an Ethos of ‘Extravagant’ and ‘Intentional’ Hospitality
…Piper, Don’t Waste Your Life, (Wheaton: Crossway, 2003). [30] Don Richardson, Eternity in Their Hearts (Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1981). [31] Timothy Keller, The Freedom of Self-Forgetfulness, (New York: 10Publishing, 2012)….