…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…
In the current New Yorker, Malcolm Gladwell entertainingly explains why computing a unidimensional ranking of educational quality from multidimensional indicators is a fool’s errand. In the case he examines, the…
…If ratings were paramount and included retention, however, Reed would just play it safe and slip into staid conventionality. And if average faculty compensation is the yardstick, any clever administrator…
…in the humanities (nearly 5,000 of them in 2009) said they had definite commitments for jobs or postdoctoral study, with 86 percent of them saying those commitments were for positions…
…35 percent of first-year community college students who don’t return for their second year, or the 33 percent of students at four-year institutions who don’t complete a bachelor’s degree within…
…on.” And Michelle Malkin opened her commentary with “Whaddya know. Academia did something right and honorable for once.” One can easily understand their endorsement. Finally, Ayers got a come-uppance. Finally,…
…into, of all things, mathematics. (See Sol Stern’s “The Propaganda in Our Ed Schools”: http://www.mindingthecampus.com/originals/2010/10/the_propaganda_in_our_ed_schoo.html ) The list of potential subjects for radicalization is vast; so enter art education. Though…
…informed godspy.com of the article. Charlotte Allen is listed as a contributor on that site. Mrs. John F. (Bridget) Murphy, Board President The Down Syndrome Guild of Greater Kansas City…
…concerns. That Albany purports to be a quality university (and is, in fact, one of SUNY’s better branches) makes Philip’s move all the more unjustifiable. At nytimes.com, Stanley Fish appropriately…
…feeling comfortable, or not hearing challenging words or ideas—threats, simply put, to one’s emotional state and level of comfort. This disparity transcends linguistics. It speaks to how the modern university…