Faculty Vetoes: Powerful and Impotent
…Herb Stein said, “If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.” At some point, the veto power will have to disappear. We at the Pope Center will be watching….
…Herb Stein said, “If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.” At some point, the veto power will have to disappear. We at the Pope Center will be watching….
…associate’s degrees and between 19 and 35 percent get bachelor’s degrees. Many leave school heavily in debt, with little learning to show for it. This two-part article will look at…
…to post test scores of high schoolers. And then there is the FERPA act of 1974, which regards almost any posting of grades as an invasion of students’ privacy. Prompted…
…at the first sight of danger, every one of the remaining 14 UNC-System schools “continued campus life, keeping campus facilities open.” The subsequent exodus from campus of previously in-person students…
…funding also sway the choice for in-person classes. The largest universities will struggle more with social distancing. Rural colleges will find it easier than urban colleges. And colleges that received…
…closed-circuit television and participate in class discussions over an open telephone line. The TV connection was a microwave signal, and voice communications had no noticeable lag. From the outset, USC’s…
…125 out of 279 students were found to have cheated on an exam. It was a take-home, open book exam and when the essays were graded, it was clear that…
…where administrators want to impose an ideological litmus test that will filter out students who don’t accept the prevailing leftist socio-political philosophy. The school’s “Race, Culture, Class, and Gender Task…
…poorly conceived test question about bikini waxing resulted in a 504-day investigation and sanctions that included mandatory sensitivity training. My own Title IX investigation was also largely based on words….
…study administrative downsizing. And rest assured, pigs will fly before the university curtails its outreach to transsexual and transgendered people of color. Administrators will assuredly dismiss Ginsberg’s analysis as exaggerated…