Fixing Higher Education Starts With More Teaching And Less Research
Professor Richard Vedder’s book, ‘Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America,’ offers some valuable critiques of the failures of higher education, although the book’s perspective is at times narrow.
Why I Refuse To Attend My College’s LGBT Graduation Ceremony
Merely having a different sexual orientation than those around you is no major accomplishment, and it shouldn’t be awkwardly singled out to virtue signal.
We Don’t Need To Trash Higher Education, We Need To Make It Better
There are opportunities for substantive reform in the current system. But mocking college graduates, many of whom have been led astray, doesn’t help.
Six 100 Percent Legal Ways To Help Your Kids Get Into Elite Colleges
No need to bribe officials or Photoshop photos of your kids playing water polo. You should encourage them to be progressive activists instead!
If Princeton Students Are Too Scared To Hear A Conservative, They Aren’t Elite
Why should Americans give weight to Ivy League credentials when many such students are too scared to handle even respectful intellectual dissent?
How Free Speech Makes The Modern University Possible
In his new book, ‘Speak Freely: Why Universities Must Defend Free Speech,’ Princeton professor Keith Whittington highlights a variety of compelling historical arguments demonstrating that free speech created modern universities as we know it.
Why Universities Must Embrace Free Speech—Or Else
Princeton professor Keith E. Whittington’s new book, ‘Speak Freely: Why Universities Must Defend Free Speech,’ urges universities to recognize that promoting freedom of speech is integral to their educational mission.
Why More Young People Should Get Summer Jobs On The Farm
And more U.S. universities and colleges should offer them internship credit for it.
Harvard Professor Accidentally Illustrates How His Kind Has Destroyed The Humanities
Harvard’s James Simpson and likeminded scholars have selectively wielded their theoretical chainsaws to disfigure the humanities into hideous totems of ideology and politics.
If College Students Will Protest Mike Huckabee, They’ll Protest Anybody
If people choose to protest with as light a provocation as someone such as Mike Huckabee provides, then life will become miserably dominated by political ideology.
10 Things I Wish I’d Done My Freshman Year Of College
Today’s college students are stressed and anxious. We can’t always remove stress from our lives, but we can equip ourselves to handle it better. Here’s how.
Why It’s Crazy To Let The Feds Grant College Degrees
Critics of Common Core warned us that ‘college-ready’ actually meant community-college ready. It looks like they were being too generous.
Swarthmore SJWs Drive Student From Campus For Criticizing Privilege Theory
Social justice warriors at Swarthmore College drove a student from campus after she wrote a controversial column. And she’s not the only one.
American Colleges Should End Racist Admissions Policies
To compensate for their racist pasts, Georgetown University and other highly regarded colleges are engaging in an entirely new form of bigotry.
Study: College Students Spend Far More Time Playing Than Studying
Most college students study and sit in class less than 20 hours per week. They spend three times that amount on leisure activities.
Triumph The Insult Comedy Dog Violates College Safe Spaces, Microaggresses Precious Snowflakes
Triumph the Insult Comedy Dog visited some college campuses recently and microaggressed as many as precious snowflake students as he could. Hilarity ensued.
Necessary Elitism And The Demise Of Higher Education
We still need higher education, but we need the university to be the domain of a relatively small group of people.
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