In September, the American Bar Association’s law-school accrediting council formally repealed Standard 206, commonly known as its diversity standard. In its earlier form, the standard required law schools to demonstrate…
The University of Delaware has recently discovered that charging full tuition is sometimes easier than getting cute with discounts. On October 1, the Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a lawsuit…
Following the Hamas assault on Israel in October 2023, many American campuses erupted in turmoil—not due to the brutality of the attack, but in support of the Palestinian cause. In…
In just a few weeks time, college students and their parents will descend upon Iowa City, IA, eagerly awaiting a new semester of learning on a safe campus. But recent…
Diversity, equity, and inclusion have gotten a lot of attention over the past decade. In these pages, we’ve often lamented that universities’ focus on superficial measures of diversity undermines merit…
Late last year, I had the honor of being nominated by Governor Kim Reynolds to serve on the advisory board of the newly created Center for Intellectual Freedom at the…
Why do public university officials do the things they do? What drives their decisions to allocate scarce resources in some ways and not others? In his recent book The University…
For years, universities have embraced accreditation standards that echo their own ideological commitments, especially around Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). These standards haven’t felt like external requirements so much as…
In recent years, it has become something of a commonplace to say that American institutions are losing their sense of purpose. Universities, once understood as places for the disciplined pursuit…
News recently came out of Chapel Hill that the flagship campus of the University of North Carolina had adopted a new policy that allowed administrators to record class proceedings at…