In this week's Pope Center Clarion Call, I discuss the recent book Uneducated Guesses by Howard Wainer -- specifically his analysis of the impact of colleges adopting "SAT optional" policies. Wainer finds that when schools do that, the students who decide not to report their scores will be academically weaker ones. The competence of the student body declines somewhat. Those who argue that SAT scores provide no useful information seem to be mistaken.
July 12, 2023
Ohio Northern University seems intent on chiseling into granite its protocol for getting rid of a faculty member who disagrees with the institution’s woke ideology, even when the......
July 19, 2023
Increasingly, collegiality is being added to the traditional triad of excellence that wins professors tenure. And now, the issue of collegiality is a fraught minefield, and has become&#......
June 22, 2023
The “diversity” bug afflicts almost all of academia; dissenters face opprobrium. But the very same mindset controls accreditors....
April 14, 2023
While many faculty quietly endorse views they privately disagree with, Harvard faculty band together to resist administrative overreach, overzealous students, and protect academic freedom....
May 15, 2015
A look at the double standard that has arisen regarding racism, illustrated recently by the reaction to a black professor's biased comments on Twitter....
June 20, 2023
UPDATED: We're keeping track of all Confucius Institutes in the United States, including those that remain open, those that closed, and those that have announced their closing....
