Search Results for: “Chief Diversity Officer”

Mar 28, 2012 · Duke Cheston

Evil Republicans 101

…partisan cynicism and only occasionally making concessions to the apparently toxic Washington culture. In Strange’s reading selections, the chief tool that cynical Republicans have used to halt progress is the…

Jun 9, 2023 · Wilfred McClay

Why We Need the Liberal Arts

…philosophy begins and the cultivation of which Agresto sees as a chief goal of liberal education. “To discover what makes us human,” he says, “is the highest and most philosophical…

Aug 13, 2020 · Nicole Divers

Did You Know? Students, Faculty Punished for Speech on Social Media

…of retired St. Louis police chief David Dorn, violated university policies prohibiting “threats/intimidation” and “bias and/or hate crimes.” Tong has been placed on probation and will not be allowed to…

Dec 18, 2020 · Thomas Bertonneau

Leaving the Blight of Higher Education: Part I–Farewell, Students

…“diversity” and preach “tolerance” at the top of their lungs, they in fact demonstrate monolithic bigotry and homogeneous narrow-mindedness. I begin, however, with students, or rather with the accoutrement, apparently…

Nov 15, 2024 · Roger Meiners

Let’s Regulate Colleges Like Businesses

…admissions at Tulane said, “Colleges are a business … and admissions is its chief revenue source.” Schools track prospective students in a way that is similar to the “algorithms that…

Aug 28, 2024 · Rob Jenkins

The Debt-Free Four-Year Degree

…one of their chief concerns is how they’re going to pay for it. My audience for this particular piece is primarily high-school students who will be headed “off to college”…

Jan 16, 2014 · Jane S. Shaw

The Feminist Retreat

…to promote activism to counter it. The book fails in the second part—its analysis of “why,” which seems to me to be the chief justification for academic women’s studies. Women’s…

May 4, 2022 · Wenyuan Wu

Rescuing “Virtue and Talents” Amidst the War on Tests

…of race-conscious admissions fell short of achieving the goal of racial diversity. In spite of the broad-spectrum implementation of race-based affirmation action, the share of URMs at elite institutions has…

Jun 30, 2009 · Robert Martin

The Revenue-to-Cost Spiral in Higher Education

…incentives in higher education. The chief focus of this paper is on the rising costs in higher education and the incentives that push those costs up. Over the past thirty…

Dec 21, 2010 · David Bass

Don’t Let College Interfere with Your Education

…but dull. I preferred to pursue my chief educational goal—learning the craft of journalism—through non-standard methods. I learned far more from reading books independent of coursework, practicing writing, and sitting…

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