…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…
…in the accuser’s entourage or a Yale administrator) violated Yale’s procedures by leaking existence of the “informal” complaint against Witt–with the motive of torpedoing his Rhodes candidacy. In combination with…
…exposing it. In a sad commentary, however, not all of the Times’ defenders, however, have come from the ranks of the ideologically sympathetic media. In Forbes.com, John McQuaid (who says…
…testing, that bright kids from blue-collar families once had to certify their competency for responsible jobs to potential employers, because companies are fearful of legal liabilities. And, of course, our…
…activists have adopted incredibly overbroad definitions of bullying. The anti-bullying website NoBully.com, and schools like Fox Hill and Alvarado Elementary, define even “eye rolling” and other expressions of displeasure or…
…These transfers seemed to be a matter of routine, provided the student met academic standards. It turns out, however, that the NCAA had included an additional component in the rule:…
…holders seem to be learning less, as shown by the National Assessment of Adult Literacy.” ————————————- Hans Bader is Senior Attorney at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. From Open Markets: http://www.openmarket.org/2011/12/09/federal-spending-on-student-financial-aid-drives-up-college-tuition-shrinks-economy/…
Like their compatriots in Zuccotti square, the 70 Harvard college students who walked out of Greg Mankiw’s economics class were larger on theatrics than on message, and failed to articulate…
A recent survey of college admissions officers, sponsored by insidehighered.com, has attracted some attention in the press, such as this story in the New York Times and, of course, this account…
…Madison,and to the press release that summarized them and announced the press conference: http://www.ceousa.org/content/view/929/119/. Since I was there, I thought I would also add a few observations. The mob’s protest…
…salutary competition between departments and provide critical information to prospective students and employers. Only with such a reliable and disinterested measure can we possibly hold administrators and faculties accountable in…
One of the frequent complaints one hears from humanities professors and figures in the “softer” social sciences is that students and a growing number of higher education officials, consultants, and…
…Breitbart’s adversarial approach to the media was formulated out of his college education. When Breitbart sat down with Peter Robinson for his show Uncommon Knowledge at www.nationalreview.com (full interview here),…
…still allowed me to complete research that would compare well with typical UT faculty in my field. Nonetheless, the critics had a point. So we have done some additional analysis…
…salary heap, holders of bachelor’s degrees in the humanities, the arts, education, and social work competing for “trickle-down table scraps,” as an article in Fast Company put it the report….
…between compliance with your directions, and commitment to the promises we’ve made to our students (and, in a larger sense, to the civil society of which we are a part)….
…children to community college and then transferring to a “name” school. September 22, 2011. The American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) announces that enrollment increased so much this fall that…
…teaching, they may choose to build a research component into their assessment criteria; their pay is comparable to that of tenure-track faculty; they can be promoted; and they can even…
…they can’t apply the rigor they should. (If an adjunct is a tough grader, the students complain and the adjunct loses the course next semester.) The system hurts everyone except…
…Yale? And if so, is it much more of a two-way street than the complainants allege? An evaluation of the charges is complicated by the fact that the specifics have…
…created by these communal ties. The Second Bombshell Needless to say, Haidt was hardly playing it safe among his fellow academics by coming up with good reasons to support religion,…
…graduates end up as ordinary, competent, comfortable lawyers conserving the wealth of affluent clients or helping the wheels of commerce spin, are they just as “careerist” as the business-school strivers…