Students in the United States have unprecedented options for postsecondary education: from brick-and-mortar liberal arts institutions and research-intensive doctoral universities to dual-enrollment high schools and online-only degree programs…But a new report attempts to throw cold water on the higher education landscape.
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“The anarchic left” may be adopting a new tactic to stifle free speech on campus: rather than direct shout-downs of speakers they oppose, thus risking arrest and punishment, they may be turning to persistent heckling…
Earlier this month, the 2017 National Assessment of Educational Progress, aka The Nation’s Report Card, was released. It’s not a pretty story.
The question that critics…should be asking is not whether intersectionality is inherently dangerous, but how it is that an academic debate about how different identity characteristics structurally intersect became tied to certain kinds of protest [that critics] abhor.
Only apologists determined to avert their eyes and cover their ears could deny with a straight face that higher education in America today nurses hostility to free speech.
Salaries lag in some states, but nationally, wages and benefits outpace the private sector.
Professors who sneered at the tweedy fellows who gave us standard editions of Dryden and Hawthorne, approached the traditional curriculum as if their moral make-up were so superior to that of the Old Times, and used diversity as a screen for tearing down the monuments . . . well, they chose the wrong battle.
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James G. Martin Center ● By Jenna A. Robinson
The curious case of the so-called ‘higher education deserts’
The Chronicle of Higher Education ● By Steve Kolowich
State of Conflict: When Turning Point Came to University of Nebraska
Minding the Campus ● By John Leo
A new tactic to undermine free speech?
Heterodox Academy ● By Ian Store
How critics of intersectionality (often) miss the point
City-Journal ● By Andrew G. Biggs; Jason Richwine
No, teachers are not underpaid
National Association of Scholars ● By Mitchell Langbert
Homogenous: New Study on Political Affiliations of Elite Liberal Arts College Faculty
Buzzfeed News ● By Scaachi Koul
Meet the New California Counterculture: College Republicans
RealClearPolitics ● By Peter Berkowitz
Colleges’ central mission erodes – and free speech with it
Minding the campus ● By Mark Bauerlein