A Dreamer of the Golden Dream: Jerry Brown’s Future for Higher Education
The title of this article alludes to Joan Didion’s famous essay about “love and death in the golden land,” a cautionary tale about the wreckage left behind when dreams collide…
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Why Conservative Policymakers Should Support Community Colleges
In the first installment of this series, I offered several reasons why conservative families ought to consider sending their kids to the local community college. This time, I would like…
Is Academic Reform for Insiders Only?
“Reform” is an appealing word, suggesting change intended for the better. It is frequently used in discussions of higher education. Critics, especially conservative ones, point out visible cracks in the…
Student Free Speech Suffers a Defeat
Since launching its Stand Up for Free Speech project in 2014, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has had a great deal of success in defeating college officials…
Vague Campus Rules Undermine Students’ Due Process and Free Speech Rights
Several years ago, the La Voz de Aztlan, a radical left-wing supplement to Fresno State University’s student newspaper, published a poem steeped in anti-American sentiment. It referred to America as…
The Great California Accreditation War
Accreditation is like the pancreas: not very interesting, but a source of serious problems if it malfunctions. The pancreas of higher education just said “ouch.” An accrediting agency, licensed by the federal government to keep colleges in good order, just got a (temporarily suspended) death sentence.
The Supreme Court endangered Christian student groups, but some states are coming to the rescue
The Supreme Court endangered Christian student groups, but some states are coming to the rescue
Here is how academics ruined the critical thinking movement
Here is how academics ruined the critical thinking movement
I Thought I’d Get an Elite Education
Unfortunately, the university I attended fell far short of my hopes and expectations.
Indoctrinate Me Not
A new report shows that campus politicization must be stopped for the once-great University of California system to thrive.