America’s Other Universities
…know thyself and pursue truth—the animating idea behind the liberal arts. Many schools are grappling with existential challenges that threaten their future. While some may view this as a natural…
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The AAUP Discredits Itself
When I began my academic career, my colleagues regarded the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) as the great proponent and bulwark of academic freedom. The senior colleague I admired…
Biden Administration Prods Universities to Restrict Speech, In Investigation of Drexel University
…university had violated Title IX in situation involving student raped at off-campus party by another student because plaintiff failed to show that the university “had control over the situation in…
The Art of AI: Tackling Complex Problems in Interdisciplinary Courses
…of AI, as Aoun advocates, incorporate it into the educational enterprise—but incorporate AI robustly and transparently. Exploring Hypothetical Curriculum at University X Imagine I’m the president of a university….
The Buckeye’s Transparency Black Eye: Ohio State University Delays More Public Records Requests
…story of its own. Case in point: The Ohio State University. In August of last year, I received a tip that the university had abruptly called off its diversity hiring…
Financial Armageddon is Coming for College Sports
…now will be making only a paltry $2 or $3 million—in today’s dollars—barely twice the salary of his boss—the University President—instead of 10-15 times as much. Horrors: university presidents might…
Spellbooks, Rituals, ‘Demonology,’ Taylor Swift Rumors: Classes on Witchcraft Abound This Fall
…just incredible, it’s like a tsunami,” Yale University Professor Carlos Eire told The College Fix recently via Zoom. Eire, who teaches religion and studies the history of the supernatural, said…
American Education: Public, Popular, and Polarizing
…when I was a freshman history student at the University of Southern Mississippi, professor Dr. Tyler used her lecture on World War II to draw a comparison between Trump’s “Make…
Biden Administration’s ‘Anti-Harassment’ Mandate to Colleges Tells Them to Violate the First Amendment
…Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and the University of Michigan, the City University of New York, and Lafayette College, which were under investigation for their handling of…
University of Illinois Springfield Golf Team Accuses Head Coach of ‘Shocking Abuse’
In recent interviews with 2aDays, University of Illinois-Springfield (UIS) student-athletes have accused head golf coach Michael Leotta of severe misconduct, exposing a troubling pattern of abuse and systemic failure within…
Israel’s Fight Against Hamas May Deter Future Terrorist Attacks. Anti-Israeli Students Should Consider This.
It will come as no news to anyone other than Rip Van Winkle that anti-Israel protests recently occurred on university campuses nationwide. Columbia University, Yale, Harvard, Berkeley, and other institutions…
Just Like MIT, Every University Should Reject Political ‘Diversity Statements’
…job applicant’s commitment to advancing diversity at the university often evidenced by stories from the past and/or their pledges for the future, have been increasingly used as a primary filtering…
College Is Not a Waste of Money, Time, or Talent
…and in him all things hold together’” (Colossians 1:16-17). I attended what was then a small, private Catholic college for my undergraduate degree—now Iona University—and a larger Catholic university—Fordham University—where…
Rich Students Disproportionally Protest Israel: Should We Fund Elite Universities?
…This is in marked contrast to the widespread Vietnam War era protests, which were prominent at state schools, most tragically, at Kent State University, where four people died. As one…
Can Harvard Win Back America’s Respect?
…university should declare and how they should be enforced. This spring a frequent subject of discussion has been whether we should organize a university-wide faculty senate like Berkeley’s to fight…
Modeling Evangelism for Gen Z Through Missions
Editor’s Note: This essay is the third excerpt from the author’s doctoral project titled “Reaching Generation Z with the Gospel at a Christian University through Faith Integration, Radical Hospitality, and…
The Federal Dollar Chain: In Debt We Trust
…sheets are government resources that remain available to meet future needs. Federal assets include cash and monetary assets; gold; accounts receivable; inventories; loans receivable; property, plant, and equipment; international organizations…
Veritas to Falsitas: Universities Have Abandoned Truth
…their campuses. While there are bright spots, such as President Sasse at the University of Florida and President Roberts at the University of North Carolina, many leaders in our higher…
Send Your Nominations for the 2024 MTC Lysenko Award
…mentions” have included MIT’s Robert van der Hilst, University of Pennsylvania Law School dean Theodore Ruger, Georgetown Law School dean William Treanor, the University of North Texas, Princeton University, and…
An Octogenarian Reflects Upon Student Protests Over Six Decades
…over the better part of a decade, debated many of their leaders, and later co-taught an interdisciplinary postgraduate seminar on the Vietnam War for three decades at the University of…
Top of Mind: On Personal Finance
…them in the short term and overlook future consequences.” But I’m skeptical that career counseling could have significantly aided Atkins—or anyone else, for that matter. Financial illiteracy is a systemic…
Against Democracy in Education: Reading, Writing, Shooting, and Smoking in Tocqueville, Jefferson, and Palafox
…of education. In America, we now think everybody under the sun deserves a university degree and perfect grades regardless of effort. Is this wise? Alexis de Tocqueville, Thomas Jefferson, and…
Developing an Ethos of ‘Extravagant’ and ‘Intentional’ Hospitality
Editor’s Note: This essay is the second excerpt from the author’s doctoral project titled “Reaching Generation Z with the Gospel at a Christian University through Faith Integration, Radical Hospitality, and…
Curricular Visions: Technology as Human Nature
What are the important topics that make a university education valuable? And even while the student traverses the various courses? Or in the future, when the student takes his or…
Some of These Institutions Need to Die. But They Won’t.
…negating the findings of others by exposing flaws in their theories and experiments. So, you don’t follow science, much less vote on it; you demonstrate it. The University of Pennsylvania…
Top of Mind: Anti-Semitic Protesters
…universities have become breeding grounds for anti-Jewish sentiment, and the protesters provide us with concrete evidence of this alarming rise. Khymani James, a prominent student activist at Columbia University and…
Identity Crisis at Middlebury
…the gruesome time when the “reactionary” professors were intimidated and prevented from speaking, bullied by the young communist zealots. But the most shocking similarity between the communist university and Middlebury…
Closing DEI Offices Is Not Enough
…the University of Texas-Austin (UT-Austin), which recently announced the firing of about 60 people who were directly involved in the university’s DEI programs. Their dismissal is good for both higher…
Say ‘Yes’ to the First Amendment
…Federalist 1 All university-level students should read, study, and discuss The Federalist Papers (1787–88). This most sacred document of the American founding explains the logic of the Constitution. It’s more…
Progressive Overreach and the Procrustes Impulse
…research.” Sailer also points to the attempt by one university to redefine “merit” by incorporating within it being “equity-minded.” However, he concludes that such an approach subordinates merit to political…