Colleges Try to Get Rid of Inconvenient Professors
College officials have cultivated a nice image for themselves—scholarly people who care deeply about providing the best possible education for their students. The reality, however, is often very different. They…
Concerns Raised Over NC’s Dual Enrollment Program and Possible Community College Misconduct
Each year, roughly 1.4 million high school students take college courses. This is made possible by dual enrollment programs, which give those students opportunities to earn credits and work toward…
Another Professor Shouted Down—This Time Over Pronouns
Universities in the United States do not have a monopoly on intolerant and disruptive students. Canada has them too, as shown by a recent incident at McMaster University in Hamilton,…
Loyalty Oaths Return with Faculty “Diversity Statements”
One of the worst features of America in the 1940s and 50s was the persistent demand for national loyalty oaths. In those days, people were expected to declare their support…
Wake Forest Faculty Attempt to Undermine Koch-Funded Campus Institute
The Faculty Senate at Wake Forest University made headlines last week when it demanded that the university reject a $3.69 million grant from the Charles Koch Foundation. Such a stance…
Why College Graduates Still Can’t Think
More than six years have passed since Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa rocked the academic world with their landmark book, Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses. Their study of more…
Beyond Ideology: Poetry and the Conservative Mind
The Ideologues Genius of Burke! forgive the pen seduced/ by specious wonders – William Wordsworth Conservatives today seem to be pretty good at winning elections. They also seem to be…
We Must Reverse the Infantilization of Higher Education
Last week, I experienced the infantilization of the campus for the first time. I run the Center for Free Enterprise at Florida Southern College, where we emphasize that a realistic…
Bias Response Teams Chill Free Speech and Miseducate Students
In their Atlantic article, “The Coddling of the American Mind,” Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukainoff identified a troubling development on American campuses. They wrote, “A movement is arising, undirected and…
How Common Core Damages Students’ College Readiness
As Massachusetts was considering signing on to a national curriculum and testing plan called Common Core, one of its lead writers gave a presentation to its state board of education.…