My Alumni Weekend at Macalester
A 1964 graduate reflects on the damage done to his school by relentless politicization.
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Additional Details for the State of the State University Report
Supportive details, including statistics for specific campuses, can be found below.
UNC-Chapel Hill’s Diversity Residence Is Divisive
The UNITA “living-learning” community claims to break down barriers but instead instills animosity.
The Limits on “Telling It Like It Is”
It’s almost impossible for professors to teach objectively these days.
Offsetting Grade Inflation
UNC-Chapel Hill tries contextual grading.
Lessons in How Not to Teach Math
The course I took in math education methods was worse than useless.
University Governance’s Missing Link
Giving the public university system its own executive director would solve the “asymmetry of information” problem.
How Multiculturalism Transformed My College
Elizabethtown College leaders fell head over heels for that fad and now the school is much the worse.
Backstage at the Admissions Office
A surprisingly critical article by an “application reader” makes it into the New York Times.
Skin in the Game
Making colleges responsible for student loan defaults may be an idea whose time has come.