Universities: Should They Be Taxed or Subsidized?
…should be run by an aristocracy of educated persons raised in a Yale Skull and Bones– or Harvard Porcellian Club–style environment, one in which higher education among a small proportion…
…should be run by an aristocracy of educated persons raised in a Yale Skull and Bones– or Harvard Porcellian Club–style environment, one in which higher education among a small proportion…
…coup de grâce must appear inconsequential to non-academics. This is dog-whistle persecution. Firing a distinguished Yale professor for falsifying government-funded research is the equivalent of bagging an infant rhino. It’s…
…new universities, new publications, and new professors. Academia’s earliest colleges were founded by those fleeing authoritarianism. Harvard and Yale’s Puritan beginnings were made possible by those fleeing persecution in England—such…
…certainly wouldn’t recommend that prospective law students attend Georgetown or other schools that seem to be controlled by woke mobs, such as Yale or Penn, but I might recommend institutions…
…his deadpan discussions of educational nonsense. What I found were essays that, adjusted for minor differences of circumstance, could be written today. “How the West Was Lost at Yale.” “Mainstreaming…
…of energy produced,” notes Yale University’s Steven Novella. “Wind turbines, surprisingly, kill more people than nuclear plants,” notes Michael Shellenberger, who was named a “Hero of the Environment” by Time…
…120 Yale Law School students seriously disrupted a panel event on March 10th. Sponsored by the Yale Federalist Society, the event featured Kristen Waggoner, lead counsel for the conservative Alliance…
…American School Reform,” Foster was influenced by legendary headmaster Leslie P. Hill, who stressed black achievement and “uplifting the race,” as exemplified by his slogan, “Harvard, Yale, Cheyney.” Foster was…
…Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, Harvard’s “reputation of having so many Jews,” it was assumed, was hurting its ability to “attract applicants from western cities and the great preparatory…
…a 25% chance of admissions would have his odds increase to 35%, 75%, or 95% if he were white, Hispanic, or black, respectively. At Yale, against which the Department of…
…with discovering truth. In short, a mixed bag. Our Martian can’t help but wonder if schools like Princeton and Yale can relentlessly dumb-down and yet still claim to be the…
In the past decade, schools ranging from Yale University, to Middlebury College, to my own Sarah Lawrence College, have made national news over how they have handled issues of free…
…top law schools, including Yale, the University of Chicago, and Berkeley, have strongly criticized the ABA proposal, there is no evidence the ABA will relent. To put the ABA proposal…
…an investigation against Yale. In February 2020, the Justice Department sued Yale for years-long discrimination against racially-disfavored applicants, including in particular most Asian and white applicants. The Biden Administration dismissed…
…In 1883, a Yale sociologist named William Graham Sumner presented a lecture that warned against what he saw as the growing encroachments of the state to solve social problems. The…
…at places like Yale, Sarah Lawrence, and Middlebury. Nonetheless, students of all ideological backgrounds report that they regularly self-censor and limit what they say due to a fear of reputational…
…stall thereafter. Affirmative action can stigmatize successful “beneficiaries.” Sowell recalls Clarence Thomas’s lament that white employers undervalued his Yale Law degree, assuming his achievement reflected quotas, not merit. This has…
…Biden’s covid-19 advisory board supports the phases set forth by the advisory group, said one of its co-chairs, Marcella Nunez-Smith, an associate professor at the Yale School of Medicine. She…
…examples: Yale University’s motto was “Lux et Veritas,” ‘light and truth’; Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s was “Mind and Hand”; Duke University’s is “Knowledge and Faith”; my alma mater the University…
…sued Yale—that could cause the Court to wait. Most knowledgeable observers I have spoken to, however, believe the Court will accept the Harvard case. Assuming the Supreme Court does agree…
…public funding will be conceded more thoughtfully in the near future. Particularly encouraging here are Secretary DeVos’s actions against elite institutions like Princeton and Yale that have siphoned off millions…
…and Yale, as Natalia Dashan writes in “The Real Problem at Yale Is Not Free Speech.” Third, most agree that more diverse organizations with good intergroup relations and fewer civil…
…Yale’s studio and fine arts program and a dentistry program at Harvard. These programs should not avoid accountability just because the rest of the university is high-performing. The release of…
…university, but is fascistic by relinquishing power to a few to decide what can be said, what speech is allowed, and what must be suppressed. It is what former Yale…
…school provide training and education around bias, cultural competence, and anti-racism.” That includes the deans at Harvard, Yale, the University of Virginia, the University of Richmond, and the College of…
…Yale president Kingman Brewster conceded virtually every demand to the Black Students at Yale (BSAY)—a black studies program a cultural center, a voice in the recruitment of black students—he unleashed…
…“The Monster of Monticello,” describing Jefferson as “a creepy, brutal hypocrite”), the brief was signed by several eminent historians — among them, Eric Foner (Columbia), David Blight (Yale), James McPherson…
…them and what wording to use. By specifying that questions must be asked by “the accused student or his agent,” Baum rejected the submitted-questions model. [Is Yale More Dangerous than…
Two American elite universities, Yale and Harvard, are now in the crosshairs of the Education Department. Why? They accepted money from foreign countries like China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Iran…
Yale is ending the teaching of one of its most storied courses—a survey of Western Art history from the Renaissance to the present. The Yale Daily News called the action…