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DOE Wishes Weasel Words Will Work Wonders

In response to the uproar caused by free-speech advocates such as FIRE’s Robert Shibley, Greg Lukianoff, and Harvey Silverglate over an amazingly expansive definition of sexual harassment in a ruling...

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One Small Victory in the Info Wars

Why does the college bubble persist, despite so much evidence that the old common wisdom about getting a college degree at any cost no longer holds? One reason the message is not getting through to the...

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Diversity’s Demise

Providence College professor Tony Esolen is a medievalist who has unique and colorful ways of expressing important and original ideas, as anybody who watched his Prager U. performance in Jason Fertig’s...

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Prof: Conservatives Lack Mental Prowess

Why is academia exceedingly liberal? According to one left-leaning academic, it’s because “the job of being a professor has been ‘imprinted’ with liberalism and thus few non-liberals are attracted to...

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Conservatism as Neurosis

Why do conservatives attack academia’s liberal bias? It can only be because they have mental problems. At least, that seems to be the conclusion to the second question in the title of Neil Gross’s...

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Even Harvard College Profs Can Learn

The humanities are in a state of decline across the nation. Once the main field of study, today only 7.6 percent of all bachelor’s degrees are awarded in the traditional liberal arts. Harvard, which...

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A Clash of Perspectives on the Bubble

Jeff Selingo’s College (Un)Bound: The Future of Higher Education and What It Means for Students isn’t going to draw tepid responses from readers. An editor of the Chronicle of Higher Education, Selingo...

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Skin in the Student Loan Game

One of the authors’ proposals in the new book by William Bennett and David Wilozel, Is College Worth It?, will send shivers up the spines of many second-tier and third-tier college officials. That will...

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The Swedish Model

Sweden is regarded in this country as the crown jewel of Eurosocialism, having a high standard of living that coincides with statist egalitarianism. Many regard it as the model for the rest of the...

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Imagine There’s No Tenure, It’s Easy If You Try

Tenure is the only thing that stands between us and an intellectual orthodoxy imposed by power-crazed corporate interests who wish to stifle the free exchange of ideas. Fortunately, we have guaranteed...

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Pell-Owe Talk

In this Forbes article, I argue for a simple, commonsensical fix to our wasteful system of financial aid. By combining merit and need criteria, rather than having aid programs based on criteria of pure...

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Apples and Crab Apples Not Quite the Same

Community colleges can be a valuable solution to many higher-ed problems: They lighten the financial burden on taxpayers and students by enabling students to complete the first two years of four-year...

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The National Speech Code Power Grab

One of the problems of having a big, powerful bureaucracy is the potential for “legislation by regulation.” Now, the federal Departments of Education and Justice went one better than that, according to...

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No Pain, No Gain

Intuition and common sense tell us that college should be harder than high school. But a funny thing has happened on our way to the perfectly equal society in which everybody has a college degree. Many...

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Look Before You Implement

In a recent post on Commentary, Ursinus political science professor Jonathan Marks raises an important issue: Before reform-minded highe- education observers go overboard praising the latest...

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Thinning the Herd

Higher education was fed very well and grew fat in the years following World War II. It is starting to go on a diet -- and many schools might not be able to adapt to and survive in an era of lower...

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Free Stuff Nation

There is a growing chorus of voices on the Left clamoring for higher education to be free, just like public K--12 education. That would eliminate all those messy funding problems and student loan...

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Hoax Detector Goes Off at UNC

The Huffington Post had an article last week about some vandalism supposedly done to a display “devoted to empowering survivors of violence and abuse” at UNC-Chapel Hill. The title of the post is “UNC...

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Is College the New Junior High School?

It’s pretty well known that many American college students are not academically ready for a college education. At some community colleges, an alarmingly large majority of students need remedial...

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How To Be A Distinguished Professor

A Michigan State professor who was nationally chastised for going off on an anti-Republican classroom rant was also the “the recipient of a Michigan State ‘Distinguished Faculty Award,’” George Leef...

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Sociology: The Silliest Science?

A winner in the unintentional satire contest is an article on Inside Higher Ed describing a discussion among sociologists about how many and what kind of genders to include on a form. After reading it,...

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Caution: Do Not Inflate Past 4.0

In today's Clarion Call, George Leef tackles an amazing claim about grade inflation: that it's a good thing. Joshua Silverstein, a professor of law at the University of Arkansas-Little Rock, says in...

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Inclusion Is Exclusion: The New Segregation

Hamilton College’s “dean for diversity and inclusion” has decided to hold an event limited to “people of color” only. (Although there will be a separate but equal event for whites in the spring...

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Intellectual Two-By-Four Therapy

I attended a conference Wednesday at St. Vincent College in Latrobe, Pa., home of good folks and good stuff: Arnold Palmer, Mister Rogers, the banana split, and Rolling Rock beer. The conference,...

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'Engaging Diversity'

Illinois Wesleyan University has a new “pre-orientation” program designed specifically for white students called “Engaging Diversity.” Incoming students arrive at school three days early to spend their...

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Walk (out) of Shame

Growing up seems to be out of fashion on campus today. When confronted with ideas that don’t mirror their own, students at elite schools figuratively place their hands over their ears and shout at the...

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Shut Up and Learn Communism!

What’s the latest fashion statement to hit campus? How about a T-shirt that says, “Be Quiet and Read Marx”? That’s pretty much how East Carolina University history professor Michael Gross summed...

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No Decision for Rodents v. Dinosaurs in 2013

2013 was a year for which much was anticipated in higher-education reform. Would the “bubble” finally burst or go away? Would the Fisher v. Texas (about affirmative action in admissions) and O’Bannon...

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Just the Facts

One of the biggest problems with finding out what’s really going on in higher education is the lack of access to meaningful data about student performance from K--12 through college and into the...

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The Elementary School of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill athletic scandals are the gifts that keep on giving for anybody interested in cleaning up corruption in college sports. Mary Willingham, an academic...

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