Why We Must Save Old French in Universities
Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published by the Observatory of University Ethics on March 18, 2022. It was translated into English from French by the Observatory before…
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The Rebel Campus Boosters Rising Up Against Wokeness on Campus
…Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, MIT, Stanford, UCLA, Williams, the University of North Carolina and the University of Virginia. They are expected to gain traction with Donald Trump back in the White…
The Red-Green Alliance and Its War on the West
…study. The letter demanded that my university punish me, although, happily for me, the university declined. This was an exceptional result because, in many similar cases in North American universities,…
Let’s Restore Integrity to 21st-Century Science
Described as a man who “always projected ‘moral and ethical rectitude,’” esteemed mid-1800s glacial geologist Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin once made a profound statement at the 1888 University of Michigan Annual…
Conservatives Must Save the Liberal Arts
…the Ancient Greek system of classical education, Arnold’s ambitious scheme envisioned the university as the center of cultural education—the cornerstone for understanding ourselves and the world around us. With its…
Counseling Textbooks Push Ideological Indoctrination
…is crossposted here with permission. Over the last few months, I embarked on a sobering project: examining the textbooks used to train future therapists. Specifically, I focused on materials assigned…
It Is Time to Return to Reality-Based Knowledge
…our culture and honest scholarship and research today and in the future by returning to the productive traditions of the Enlightenment university. Image: Enlightenment by Snow Minister on Wikimedia Commons…
A Review of “Don’t Go To College”
…at the University of Notre Dame, the University of Oxford, and the United States Naval Academy. Both men have PhDs, plus two Masters for Robillard and a Masters and Juris…
The American University in Crisis: A War on Science, Faculty, and Freedom
…prevailing orthodoxies. Once the stewards of intellectual inquiry, faculty become employees subject to ideological litmus tests. [RELATED: American Thinkers Must Mind the Campus] The Future of the American University If…
Breaking Up with Accreditors: A Satirical Contract for Academic Freedom
…“The Trepidatious and Hopefully Homeowning Future”—and College Accreditors—hereinafter referred to as “The Gatekeepers of Wealth and Opportunity. Imposers of Arbitrary Standards”—collectively referred to as “The Recovering Parasitic Relationship.” WHEREAS the…
Anthropology in Crisis: Elizabeth Weiss Faces the Challenges of a Politicized Discipline
Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published by the Observatory of University Ethics on January 25, 2025. It was translated into English from French by the Observatory before…
Winston Churchill’s Reception and Influence in the United States
…stalwart Secretary of Defense and a tireless champion of Churchill’s legacy. Another was the future American President, Richard Nixon. Churchill’s reputation as the indispensable leader who saved his government and…
The Use and Misuse of AI in Higher Education Writing Courses
…adopted institution-wide AI policies that encourage the use of AI in the classroom, such as Laurie O. Campbell and Thomas D. Cox at the University of Central Florida, who developed…
The Passion Project Industry: How College Admissions Activities Lists Killed Intellectual Wonder
…start to develop a vision, an identity, and a purpose, but many students today feel purposeless and lost, unsure of what they want in the present or the future. As…
Accreditation-Reform Hopes for the Second Trump Administration
…and inclusion bureaucrats” and incentivize the adoption of “accelerated … low-cost degrees [with] meaningful job placement.” Campaign statements are seldom a reliable guide to future events. All policy reforms cost…
Cornell’s Ban on Campaigning Undermines Free Speech
…loosen these speech restrictions that would be blatantly unconstitutional in a public university setting. Instead, Cornell should trust its alumni to debate the university’s future vigorously. That trust would demonstrate…
Equal Protection, Racial Preferences, and Professional Military Judgment: What the Judge in SFFA v. USNA Got Wrong
…of racial preferences in the admissions programs of Harvard and the University of North Carolina unconstitutional, colleges and universities, which were not parties to the case reviewed their own programs…
Controversial Research and Duty of Care
…best interest of their students, both domestic and international. Therefore, it is of the utmost imperative that university staff take a risk management approach and are informed of the repercussions…
A Worrying Politicization of Medical Education
…for our higher education system? Should we tolerate politicized movements with partisan aims dictating the content of university programs to the detriment of the impartial training of future doctors, engineers,…
MIT Still Requires DEI Essay of Grad Students After Abandoning Faculty Pledge
…run the university,” Rasmusen said in an email interview with The College Fix. “The Sloan School, where I myself TA’d as a PhD student, is literally at the far end…
DEI Statements Erode the Diversity That Matters. Qualified Candidates Can’t Get Jobs.
…in the future and one’s professional viability is crucial. In fact, I remember times when, after not advancing in a job search, I followed up with the committee chair and…
An AI Essay: The Convergence of MLK and Inauguration Day
…in the midst of a technological tipping point. We see this in faculty guides from the Chronicle of Higher Education and the University of Texas at Austin’s collaboration with Grammarly….
2025: Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss
…San José State University. Most recently, to end the year, the Freedom from Religion Foundation removed a blog post by University of Chicago professor Jerry Coyne about the binary nature…
A Reflection on Violence in College Sports
The rivalry between the University of Michigan (Michigan) and Ohio State is among the most intense and storied in college football, but the last game of the 2024 season was…
Ivies in Crisis
…such as the University of Illinois or Rutgers University have experienced a recent influx of applications as students begin to prioritize vocational education over the classical liberal arts experience. And…
K-12 Teachers Go Through the University Ideology Pipeline
…The book was a key reason I decided to attend Stanford University’s graduate program in education policy and leadership and reenter the world of education. While I didn’t expect to…
A Faculty Guide to AI Pedagogy and a Socratic Experiment
…broader contexts of learning beyond traditional teacher-centered models. A notable example is the University of Texas at Austin’s collaboration with Grammarly to create the Faculty Guide to Getting Started With…
Cheers to the New Year
…enrollment cliff, and the uncertain future of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) initiatives on campuses. The ED is the bullseye of education reformers and policymakers. Members of President Trump’s incoming…
Jimmy Carter: A Decent Man, a Damaging Education Policy
…to much higher costs for students—negating alleged increased student college accessibility—but had such unintended effects as the rise in a costly and harmful university administrative bloat that has crowded out…
When Speaking Truth to Power Becomes a Punishable Offense
…committees for the foreseeable future. The school also imposed a gag order and threatened with future penalty if the professor were to choose to speak out about the disciplinary process….