The Diversity Mania Rages On
American colleges and universities have been gripped by the diversity mania for decades, but presidents always seem to find reasons to do more. Want to quiet the furious academic Left for a while?...
View ArticleBattling Back against Campus Intolerance
Many Americans (and, most notably, students at our “elite” colleges) have gotten the idea that there is no reason to engage in civil discourse with people they disagree with. Once an individual is...
View ArticleWhen Should the Feds Let Students Out of Paying Back Their Loans?
Here’s one of the worst problems with federal student loans: The government makes it easy for kids who don’t belong in college to borrow money to attend schools that merely pretend to educate them....
View ArticleCollege Versus Apprenticeships
Why don’t more young Americans go for apprenticeships as opposed to enrolling in college? That question becomes more and more important as a) huge numbers of college “educated” students struggle to...
View ArticleHow State Legislators Can Improve Higher Education
Usually, the less a state does with regard to higher education, the better. Sometimes, however, there are measures that a state legislature could take that would make its higher-education system...
View ArticleThe Dubious Value of Graduate Degrees
The conventional wisdom about higher education (spread mainly by the higher-education establishment) is that the higher your educational “attainment,” the better off you’ll be. That belief has fueled...
View ArticleHaving Grounds for Complaint, Leftists Smear Speaker as Racist Anyway
Leftist virtue-signaling requires that practitioners not only refuse to listen to anyone who is perceived as an enemy, but also to make up nasty accusations if they can’t find any other mud to throw....
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Pro-Life Display Vandalized at College of William and Mary
On Sunday night, ten students at the College of William and Mary spent their evening setting up a pro-life display in an outdoor area at the undergraduate campus, meant to mark Monday as the 45th...
View ArticleAt UNC, It's Only 'Playing Politics' When Conservatives Get Active
When the Left tries to get its way, that is “fighting for social justice” or some such blather, but when those on the right push back, it’s sure to be attacked as “playing politics.” Recent...
View ArticleAttacking the Most Sacred Cow of All
A book I have been awaiting for years has finally been published — Bryan Caplan’s The Case Against Education. How could a college professor (Caplan is on the esteemed economics faculty at George...
View ArticleBros, Cont.
Earlier this week, I had a piece about the Browder family, and their progress from communism to capitalism. Earl Browder was boss of the CPUSA. His grandson Bill is a financier and human-rights...
View ArticleA Professor Recounts Title IX Ordeals, Including His Own
If you want an example of how horrible results can come from innocent little policy mistakes, Title IX is impossible to top. Language inserted in the Higher Education Act (itself a big mistake) back...
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‘The people,’ &c.
Rodrigo Londoño, also known as Timochenko, at a rally in Bogotá, Colombia, January 27, 2018 (Reuters photo: Jaime Saldarriaga) When politicians start going on about “the people,” watch out. Hardly any...
View ArticleThe College Application Process Is Hard on Homeschoolers
The college-application process was established before homeschooling became a big thing, and it imposes unnecessary hurdles for homeschoolers today. That’s the argument of Professor George Ehrhardt of...
View ArticleWhat's Wrong with the Peer-Review System
The peer-review system for deciding what scientific research gets published and what doesn’t used to work pretty well, but like so much in academia, is now in trouble. In this Martin Center article,...
View ArticleNew Mexico Lawmakers Want to Force High Schoolers to Apply for College, and...
(Photo: Yanlev/Dreamstime) New Mexico lawmakers have introduced a bill that would force high-school juniors to apply for college or prove that they have other approved post-graduate plans, and it’s...
View ArticleThe Trouble with Academic Research, Part Deux
Many laughs have been had over academic-research papers. In the second of his two-part article on academic research, Professor John Staddon gives us more material. The Food and Brand Lab at Cornell...
View ArticleUNC Spends Loads of Money on Diversity, but Does it Get Any Value?
“Diversity” has been a growth industry for decades, especially in higher education. Most colleges and universities have “Diversity and Inclusion” offices, frequently staffed with layers of well-paid...
View ArticleCampus Kangaroo Courts: Blame Colleges, Not Just the Federal Government
(Reuters photo: Lucy Nicolson) Serving on a panel that hears Title IX sexual-assault complaints on college campuses sounds like a full-time job. According to a recent story in the Chronicle of Higher...
View ArticleTo Be Scholars or Ideologues — That Is the Question
Numerous academic fields have become infected with groupthink — ideological conformity that prevents professors from viewing the world objectively. Some years ago, one professor (I can’t recall his...
View ArticleProtecting Freedom of Speech Where It Matters Most, on the College Campus
Students on the campus of Harvard University in 2009. (Reuters file photo: Brian Snyder) The 45 words of the First Amendment fit well within Twitter’s 280-character limit. Those words are what make...
View ArticleHappiness and Man at Yale
Students on the campus of Yale University, 2009 (Reuters file photo: Shannon Stapleton) The most popular class at Yale is also being described as the most difficult class at Yale. Yet its professor is...
View ArticleConservatives Should Consider Community Colleges
Community colleges are stereotyped as pathetic excuses for “real college” where the loser kids go. Enroll in one, and you’ll suffer the embarrassment forever, and you’ll get little or none of that...
View ArticleCould Reading Books by Dead White Males Do Students Any Good?
To hear campus “progressives” talk, reading anything by a dead white male is a form of brain pollution since, y’know, those people are to blame for all our woes. But on the other hand, some scholars...
View ArticleIs Higher Education Worth It?
I just finished listening to a particularly excellent episode of EconTalk (my second favorite podcast). Russ Roberts had his old friend Bryan Caplan on to talk about his new book, The Case Against...
View ArticleCollege Leaders Think Free Speech Is at Risk Everywhere — Except on Their Own...
Protesters at Harvard University disrupt a speech by Betsy DeVos, September 2017. (Reuters photo: Mary Schwaim) America’s colleges and universities are experiencing an intellectual crisis. While this...
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The Left Flip-Flops on Trump’s Student-Loan Reforms
President Trump delivers remarks in Blue Ash, Ohio, February 5, 2018. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) President Trump’s second budget request to Congress, released yesterday, reiterated his proposal to...
View ArticleJames Madison University’s Sexual-Assault Star Chamber
Wilson Hall on the James Madison University campus (Photo: Wikimedia) It may finally be payback time for one student at James Madison University. In a case involving a dubious sexual-assault claim and...
View ArticleCampus Leftists Plan to Subdue 'Toxic Masculinity'
The radical-feminist Left is pretty much in control of our colleges and universities. Those people like power and think they can improve society with their plans. At the top of their list is to remake...
View ArticleWhat's Oozing Out of Campuses Is Polluting Society
A student walks past a notice board on the campus of Yale University, November 2015. (Reuters photo: Shannon Stapleton) In a 1989 article in The New Republic, Andrew Sullivan made what he called “a...
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