Judging from recent books, articles, and editorials, higher education is poised for a cataclysmic collapse. There is a considerable body of opinion that systemic problems such as runaway tuition, student … Continue reading “The Accelerating Pace of Change in Higher Education”
Moral bankruptcy is undermining higher education
What’s to be done about “low-productivity” degree programs?
Georgia’s state scholarships boost enrollment, but the people who pay for them are mostly poor.
The “Anything But Knowledge” philosophy of education schools reveals itself in comments on test tampering.
A host of influences—some natural and some imposed by the economy—might mean big changes ahead for many of the nation’s historically black colleges.
(As long as they don’t complain about anything sacred to the left.)
RALEIGH — In June 2003, the Supreme Court heard two cases concerning racial preferences in Michigan higher education, Gratz v. Bollinger (on preferences used by the University of Michigan) and Grutter v. Bollinger (on preferences used by its Law School). The Court ruling against outright racial preferences in admissions while ruling in favor of considering race in admissions so long as it is used as only one of “pertinent elements of diversity.”
Professional and daily newspapers have recently let us know that 42 presidents of private universities and 17 presidents of public ones now make more than $500,000. In fact, seven presidents of private universities made more than $800,000 in the 2003 fiscal year, and the outside earnings of some of these (via payments made to them because they are corporate directors, for example) gave them total earnings of a million dollars or more. (Judith Rodin of Penn is said to have made $893,213 in university compensation and about $404,000 as a director of five corporations (for a total of nearly 1.3 million dollars. Boy, financially speaking, Rodin must be the original Thinker, eh?).
The face of racial preferences, under the misnomer “affirmative action,” is changing in several places nationwide.