The Need for Adult Supervision of Universities
…the Alexander Hamilton Center established at the University of Florida and the Institute of American Civics at the University of Tennessee (whose new director, Joshua Dunn, spoke at the Ohio…
…the Alexander Hamilton Center established at the University of Florida and the Institute of American Civics at the University of Tennessee (whose new director, Joshua Dunn, spoke at the Ohio…
…words, and Northwestern University (NU) canceled me without speaking to me. I escalated to the President, the General Counsel, the Chair, and the Vice-Chair of the Board of Trustees. Despite…
…the harmful effects yet, the argument goes, but we will see it further down the road as future cohorts of polar bears come into breeding age. Fewer bear cubs born…
…courts. Some state collegiate systems, such as the University of Missouri, the University of North Carolina, all three public universities in Iowa, and the University of Georgia, no longer require…
…rejected racial preferences, that even they must find a way to comply.’” “In May 2021, SACS interfered with the Florida State University (FSU) presidential search when it complained that candidate…
…says Nichols, the school leader, who wrote his dissertation at the University of Southern California on the rash of failures. The mid-2000s were the high-water mark for Christian schools. In…
…and to generate ever-increasing waves of activist feminist anthropologists. They succeeded. In my 2017 senior seminar, there were 18 females, no males. My female department colleagues insisted that all future…
…citizens” who support “honest science” and the “prudent management of resources for future generations.” It also emphasizes “homeland defense” and preparedness for nuclear disaster, including the use of nuclear weapons….
My grandfather attended the University of Toronto. My father attended the University of Toronto. I attended the University of Toronto. And now my daughter is attending the University of Toronto….
…the college or university doesn’t tell anybody, doesn’t make any public statements? […] I’ll give you an example from our law school, but if ever I’m deposed I’m going to…
…on “appropriately”), we can imagine that new generations will not need university buildings in order to have a university education. Each student can be fitted with his own personal university,…
…of Notes on the State of Virginia. In short, Jefferson imagined an Hispanoamerican future by studying the other half. In 1787, advising his future son-in-law about his education, Jefferson wrote,…
…People’s Liberation Army (PLA). The Maseeh College’s international programs page boasts of the college’s partnerships with NJUPT, Changchun University of Technology (CCUT), and Jilin Jianzhu University (JLJU). PSU participates in…
…stated “as University of California President Michael Drake wrote today, this decision is antithetical to the University of California’s mission and values. Our university firmly supports individuals’ ability to access…
…Not Free Speech: Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom—that was published in 2022 by Johns Hopkins University Press. It extends the argument for firing professors like me who…
…medical schools. That included the institution where I taught and served as an administrator for decades, the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine. I thought I was engaging in…
…have high hopes that the expected Supreme Court rulings in the Harvard and University of North Carolina cases will settle the race question in college admissions once and for all….
…has incubated several new education-only media outlets, such as Chalkbeat, EdReports, EdSurge, Education Next, Ed Post, FutureEd, and The 74. Gates+ money has also substantially boosted the efforts of preexisting…
…time, expertise, and incentive to learn about the institutions they govern, what did these hard-headed businessmen do? They delegated authority to the president of the university, who, in their imagined…
…That same week, three events provided disturbing contrast to their manifesto. 1. The University of Pennsylvania held a show trial to strip tenure from Amy Wax, professor of law, who…
…would you take to steel our future civilization against its subterranean enemies? My question departs slightly from Mrs. Watchett’s. I don’t refer to humanoids living so far in the future…
Review: Brutal Minds: The Dark World of Left-Wing Brainwashing in Our Universities by Stanley Ridgley (Humanix, 290 pages, $29.99) I only attended Vanderbilt University’s 2022 Jumpstart Virtual Conference to see…
…of possible governance the University of Oxford (founded 1167), Harvard (1636), Humboldt University of Berlin (1810), the University of Virginia (1819), Stanford (1885), and the University of Chicago (1890). Most…
…them from a mission they can’t describe without recourse to jargony neologisms nobody understands. In some traditions, the Minotaur is blind. It’s hard to see a future beyond the walls…
…changing their assignments, and educators writing essays (some perhaps written by AI?) that range in reaction from the nonchalant to the apocalyptic about the fate of college writings, the future…
…U.S. Supreme Court is set to decide on the future of race-conscious college admissions, Arkansas’s less-than-enthusiastic reception of SB 71 seems misplaced. Among the nine states that have banned race-based…
…the oikophobia paradox, let’s rank all academic departments in terms of their faculty’s ability to survive economically without a university appointment. What would happen to faculty if universities went bankrupt…
…It has been edited prior to publication. Recent reports from Texas Tech University, Stanford University, and the University of North Carolina show promising signs that universities are beginning to move…
…School had already decided she should be forbidden from giving her opinions about anything at all. Also last March, activist students at the University of California College of the Law,…
…that marks the advent of the age of Cleon. * Recall that a young James Madison, in the guise of Princeton University’s first graduate student, studied Thucydides’s epic vision of…