Universities Are Vocational Schools
…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…
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The Ultimate Victory of Liberal Bias
…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…
After Awful Tragedies,
The Campus Bureaucracy Expands
…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,…
A Modest Proposal to Promote Intellectual Diversity
…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…
$301,000 to Study Gender in Political Ambition?
…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 Journalistic Encounter with Academia
…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…
Two Views: Allan Bloom and Pop Culture
…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…
Where Is the Faculty on Unionization?
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,…
The Terrible Textbooks of Freshman Comp
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…
Andrew Breitbart: Tweeting Evangelist For Conservatism
…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…
Please Don’t Sue If You Hate This Item
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…
The Times Doubles Down Against Patrick Witt
…“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…
Patrick Witt and Yale’s Disastrous Failure
…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…
Media “Watchdogs” Foul Up the Mess at Yale
…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…
How Universities Promote the “Coming Apart” of America
…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…
The Ever-Expanding Concept of “Bullying” Casts an Ominous Shadow Over Free Speech
…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…
FERPA: Last Refuge of Academic Scoundrels?
…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:…
How Federal Aid Drives Up College Tuition
…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/…
The Harvard Protest: Theatricality Mixed with Incoherence
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…
Attitudes in the Admissions Office
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…
Notes on the Diversity Uprising in Wisconsin
…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…
The Mirage of Accountability at the University of Texas
…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…
After Graduation, Get a Job Immediately, or Else
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 Thinks Back on His College Years
…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),…
‘Yes, Some Teachers Do Very Little’
…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…
How the Feds Plan to Violate Student Privacy
…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….
What Yale’s President Should Have Said about the Frat Boys
…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)….
Why Harvard and Yale Had to Merge
…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…
Let’s Push Trustees to Solve the Adjunct Problem
…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…
The Adjunct Problem, or the Adjunct Benefit?
…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…