…Dr. Gee on some Ohio higher education issues), but the implicit per-hour compensation rate is extremely high. Similarly, Lawrence Bacow of Tufts received $1.7 million “end of service compensation” when…
…the brand of feminist-dominated “men’s studies” that currently enjoy academic acceptance. Schwyzer–strictly speaking, not a professor but a soon-to-be-former tenured instructor at Pasadena Community College–has a formal background in medieval…
…to their offspring, but common sense and common experience suggest that at least in some cases legacy preferences can make a big difference in decisions to donate. Defenders of legacy…
…readers. KC Johnson is a professor of history at Brooklyn College and the City University of New York Graduate Center. – See more at: http://www.mindingthecampus.com/originals/2013/01/defending_the_race-class-gende.html#sthash.2YEwh0kU.dpuf KC Johnson is a professor…
…done to it. Once upon a time, earlier in my life, liberals took pride in the high standards they set for the colleges that they had recently come to dominate…
…that funding, if it does not comply with the standards laid out in the letter. The turgid 31-page, single-spaced letter, made up largely of bureaucratic gibberish – with the couple…
…gathered from evaluations published on ratemyprofessor.com (RMP). We strongly believe that this list of 25 schools is a complete misrepresentation of our work. While it is true that we use…
…of all fixes, but it comes with some significant drawbacks. 2. Legally End the Slippery Debate about What “Harassment” Really Means. Since the 1980s, the most common form of campus…
…Intercultural Communication: A Contextual Approach, which insidehighered.com covered in a related story a few days before. In the latter piece, the author of the textbook explains the reason for the…
…complete secrecy, and the “security breach” demonstrated, if nothing else, his lack of absolute control. His reaction hints that he may have been unnerved by the leak. The continued existence…
…speech and use existing overly broad school bullying rules as models for laws against workplace bullying that would hold employers and co-workers liable for compensatory and punitive damages for speech…
…One of most common complaints about the current system is that it’s far too massive and complicated for the average low-income family to understand. Applicants for the AOTC tax credits…
…financial problem of the Millennial generation: student loan debt. Companies like Payscale.com and College Measures have already made available similar metrics to inform students about the expected returns from College…
…correct, “transgressive” alternatives that have rendered so much of higher education an exercise in psychopathology, anti-American animus, and minatory left-wing political posturing. Copyright © 2013 The New Criterion | www.newcriterion.com…
…a single concrete NCAA rule that Penn State has broken, for conduct that in no way compromised the NCAA’s mission of fair competition.” Yet a bit later in his filing,…
…(actually, ESPN’s former Rob Parker, since he was fired over the comment) asked whether Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III is “a brother or a cornball brother?” Unfamiliar with the term,…
…Wendy Murphy–and filed a complaint with the Office of Civil Rights. Murphy’s argument, as expressed to c-ville.com, comes close to saying that a failure to convict amounts to an OCR…
…anecdotal to provide conclusive evidence of the problem’s scope. This critique has some merit but comes with the territory of such books. More systematic inquiry is needed, certainly, but it…
…about achieving the American Dream of a comfortable, moderately affluent life. To cite one statistic, 99 percent of admission directors at public four-year colleges agreed or strongly agreed that “parents…
…but it’s hard to find any other notice of the case. Searches of “University of Texas Watch List” at the Chronicle of Higher Education and www.insidehighered.com produced no stories, and…
…campus student life administrators. Lawyers Board the Gravy Train Too The National Center for Higher Education Risk Management (NCHERM) is one such company, which universities hire to assess campus threats,…
…the book publisher’s prestige). With everything published, however, things must be read. Finally, compare this remedy for combating the PC University with alternatives such as mandated ideologically diversified faculty recruitment…
…case study in waste. On May 11th, insidehighered.com reported on it this way: “Neither was that fact lost on Jennifer Lawless, an associate professor of government at American University and…
…the nature of active political commitments that appear to override the more sedate scholarly commitments in Black or Africana Studies in particular. As long ago as forty years, a book…
…years. Perry Como will not. The most complete counter-argument to Bloom came in 1998. It was a lecture, reprinted in the Public Interest, by scholar Martha Bayles. Bayles knew Bloom…
A story today at insidehighered.com has a hole in it: the faculty is missing. Entitled “So Close,” the piece covers unionization efforts at University of Michigan by graduate research assistants,…
Freshman composition class at many colleges is propaganda time, with textbooks conferring early sainthood on President Obama and lavishing attention on writers of the far left–Howard Zinn, Christopher Hedges, Peter…
…led knew that the main thing stopping conservatives is the soulless complex of the “Bigs,” with their stranglehold on education, journalism, and Hollywood. “I’m committed to the destruction of the…
Two former students of Thurgood Marshall School of Law are suing the school for giving them poor marks. Walter Olson of overlawyered.com offered this comment: “Doesn’t it sort of prove…
…“sexual assault” yielded 37,800 results. And, as espn.com’s Jemele Hill pointed out, the Times’ publication of the article probably ended any chance that Witt had of being drafted by the…