Top of Mind: Standardized Tests
…now believe that ACT and SAT scores outshine other factors as a predictor of college success and completion, others are not jumping into the bandwagon. University of California’s (UC) Board…
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The Worst Federal Higher Ed Policy Initiative Ever
…higher education, contributed importantly to a costly and academically debilitating university administrative bloat, caused sizable underemployment of college graduates, lowered academic standards, and even, by its indirect effect of discouraging…
Curricular Visions: Revitalizing the Great Books
…latest column, Curricular Visions. Introduction The creation of new institutions, like the University of Austin, and the renewal of existing ones, like New College of Florida, provide us with an…
Having a Theological Vision
…And a university by definition is a university with a cultural center. A Christian university then may be thought of as a cultural center with a unity of truth, and…
At UC Berkeley, there is one administrator for every four undergrads
…University of Wisconsin Madison, which has one administrator for every four students. Florida State University, however, has one administrator for every ten students. UC Berkeley employs a total of 150…
College Presidents Are Oblivious to Their Campus Climate
…liberal learning is being interrupted. Yet, most college presidents believe their campuses are perfect examples of viewpoint diversity. The 2024 edition of Inside Higher Ed’s survey of college and university…
The Higher Education Bubble is Ready to Burst
…graduating from university is more common than completing high school in the 1940s.” Many of these incapable but credentialed students end up as university administrators with nowhere else to go…
Let’s Help Harvard Faculty Share in Its Governance
…senate and doesn’t have a chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). Without a senate, the faculty have no formal representation to approve or disapprove Harvard’s draft interim…
Why Are Health Care Students Still Forced to Get COVID-19 Boosters?
…can secure a [vaccine] exemption for enrollment to study for a healthcare degree at the University of Pennsylvania or the University of Pittsburgh, but that same student cannot be placed…
Confucius Classroom
…the university-level institutes. My day to day experience at school was not all that much different from the average high schooler’s, as far as I know. I learned from excellent…
A Diversity Officer’s Dismissal of Rape Charges Exposes Racial Bias and Conflict of Interest at UTK
In January 2024, Minding the Campus reported that the University of Illinois Springfield firmly ditched its “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) audit, which found that the university “fail[ed] to adequately…
Affirmative Action for Intellectual Diversity?
…been acquainted with critiques of Marxism—and all too often they have not been on campus—they have been cheated. The reality on most college and university campuses differs greatly from what…
The New 2024 Law School Rankings: The Sociology of Law
…Development Saint Petersburg State University University of Bologna, University of Glasgow University of Tehran Tel Aviv University, University of Carthage University of Tokyo, Kobe University Universidad Panamericana , Monterrey Institute…
Igniting an Appreciation for Abraham Lincoln in Children
…In fact, Lincoln was the first Republican to be elected president. As a professor of American Studies at Christopher Newport University I spend a great deal of time teaching my…
Sports Madness Reveals Itself Again Very Soon
…to their teams. Oxford University, the University of Toronto, and leading Chinese universities eke out a good existence without high-profile college teams, so why can’t Stanford or Ohio State? The…
How Civics Can Counter Antisemitism on Campus
…a number of public universities, from the University of Florida’s Hamilton Center to the University of Texas’s new Civitas Institute, among others. Civics education rightly understood counters this new form…
An Honest Diversity Statement
…(or persons identifying as women, or with female-sounding names) have been contacting me from the university’s diversity office, inviting me to attend sessions to discuss our DEI policies. Harvard has…
Counseling’s Political Purity Push: Unveiling the Identity Crisis That Hijacked Accreditation and Shaped a Profession
…profession from both social work and psychoanalysis. Over a series of conventions, they wrestled with these dynamics and formed a vision for the future. The first of those conventions described…
I Was Canceled
…my background. While I’m still working as an adjunct at Texas State University, I’ve begun to accept that teaching—my passion—may not be my future. If that’s my fate, my case…
Balancing Academic Independence: Beyond Congressional Oversight
…been widely panned as evasive and inadequate responses. On December 13, the House of Representatives adopted House Resolution 927, “Condemning antisemitism on University campuses and the testimony of the University…
Saving Free Speech
…challenging a student’s “land acknowledgment” claim. An Economics professor was concerned about the university’s future when Bates students expressed outrage at a school Instagram picture of a College Republican. The…
The Sobering Lesson of the Claudine Gay Ouster
…of the “administrative university.”[1] That project has continued without interruption, to the point where administrators now outnumber students at some campuses. The rise of the administrative university is a pricey…
Early Warnings Were Ignored: DEI Trainings and Social Pressure
…Duke University, I edited a publication called the Faculty Newsletter. The Newsletter had a short and rather erratic history and folded a couple of years after I quit. When I…
Has Anyone Noticed How Cheap it Was to Bribe the Biden Crime Family and Our Universities?
…universities, hence the education—and eyeballs—of our youth, to foreign interests for a song. During the past two years, Harvard University has taken over $10 milliion from Qatari and Saudi entities….
Restoring the Academic Gold Standard
…expects university professors to solve problems of crime, housing, education, and the like unless they have an appetite for jargon-laden ideological claptrap. This outpouring of babble is of recent vintage….
UA’s Emancipatory Education Proposal
…university, so Arizona taxpayers are being asked to pay for an effort to turn future leaders of the country into revolutionists. It is called “Emancipatory Education.” It would emancipate its…
Biden’s Department of Education Appears to be Weaponizing Fines
…the Biden administration is weaponizing fines to punish political opponents. Grand Canyon University The Biden administration fined Grand Canyon University $37.7 million for allegedly providing misleading estimates of the cost…
Fair Admissions Model Legislation Aids the Battle Against Racial Preferences
When the U.S. Supreme Court issued the landmark ruling in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard College, bundled with the University of North Carolina (UNC), the higher education status quo…
The Collegiate War on Men
…at Ohio State University. The number of employees more than doubled to 189(!) in the five years from 2018 to 2023, costing over $20 million annually in salary and benefits…
Weird Is What We Need
…dean of Christ College, the Honors College of Valparaiso University, and now founding president of UATX, gave news of “officially announcing the launch of America’s newest university.” According to the…