December 22, 2010

FIRE Serves Notice on Speech Codes

Glenn Ricketts

FIRE sends a letter to over 300 university presidents and their legal advisers, who have long stonewalled criticism of unconstitutional speech codes.

Continue Reading

December 22, 2010

Academic Freedom? We're All Conservatives

Glenn Ricketts

Stanley Fish seems to be seeking the middle ground on revisions to Penn State's policy authorized by the faculty Senate, and now awaiting approval by PSU's president. Particularly unfortunat......

Continue Reading

December 21, 2010

Re: Value of the College Degree

George Leef

A figure of 85 percent agreeing that their education adequately prepared them for their job certainly doesn't mean much.

Continue Reading

December 21, 2010

Student Riots in Britain

Peter Wood

Peter Wood reviews the student protests over tuition hikes in Britain and the emergence of a 15-year-old as the YouTube star of the protest movement.

Continue Reading

December 21, 2010

Collegiate Press Roundup 12-21-10

Glenn Ricketts

Student journalists write about Wikileaks, ethical dilemmas, bilious feminists and campus hate crimes.

Continue Reading

December 20, 2010

The Value of the College Degree

Ashley Thorne

Is college worth it just because recent grads say it is? There's more to it than the study shows, writes Jason Fertig at NAS.org.

Continue Reading

December 20, 2010

The Diversity Camel Gets Its Nose Under the Engineering Tent

George Leef

An engineering professor writes about the incursion of political correctness into the field of engineering.

Continue Reading

December 20, 2010

More Fuzzy Math: Alumni Satisfaction

Jason Fertig

Is college worth it just because recent grads say it is?

Continue Reading

December 20, 2010

Reforming Our Universities

Peter Wood

A review of David Horowitz's new book Reforming Our Universities: The Campaign for an Academic Bill of Rights.

Continue Reading

December 17, 2010

Sadly, Few Econ Students Ever Read Material Like This

George Leef

An excellent essay by Professor Christopher Westley of Jacksonville State University makes the case against the politicization of money and credit.

Continue Reading

Most Commented

March 31, 2025

1.

Keeping Watch

Columbia's descent into chaos is by its own hand. Actions to right the university must be swift and tough....

March 24, 2025

2.

A Reckoning for Higher Education?

Are American colleges and universities finally getting their comeuppance?...

April 15, 2025

3.

Fighting Harvard and the Other Cultural Warlords

The academic bureaucracies and professoriate are so deeply committed to their radical program of replacing American society with their own vision of a new order that we have no real choice b......

Most Read

May 15, 2015

1.

Where Did We Get the Idea That Only White People Can Be Racist?

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....

April 15, 2025

2.

Fighting Harvard and the Other Cultural Warlords

The academic bureaucracies and professoriate are so deeply committed to their radical program of replacing American society with their own vision of a new order that we have no real choice b......

October 12, 2010

3.

Ask a Scholar: What is the True Definition of Latino?

What does it mean to be Latino? Are only Latin American people Latino, or does the term apply to anyone whose language derived from Latin?...