At the 2008 CPAC, leaders of the conservative movement urged students and others to stand up for their principles and remain united.
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Tunnelvision Of Oppression
The crowning irony of the endless push for diversity education in institutions of higher learning is that the places where you are most likely to hear racial epithets anymore are college campuses.
Not-so-Silent Epidemic
Two years ago, the national report, The Silent Epidemic (pdf), heralded America’s growing – but largely unrecognized – high school dropout crisis.
US Closeted No More
It seems that my alma mater is trying to embrace “diversity” without becoming Catholic in Name Only.
Groundhog Day Curriculum
Somewhat like the character Bill Murray plays in the film Groundhog Day, college administrators rarely achieve real reform in resolving the crises in higher education because they keep on doing the same thing over and over again.
Global Linguistic Citizenship for All
Under the language department reforms proposed by the MLA, students would be trained as global citizens freed from the “Manichean” tendencies of American culture.
Striking Out
The popular online professor ratings site, ratemyprofessors.com, has been eliciting some fiery responses from professors objecting to insulting comments by anonymous posters.
You Don’t Get What You Pay For in College
Recently, a history professor at a distinguished university commented during a TV interview that Americans should be more humble. After all, he said, more than 50,000 Americans and hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese died during the Vietnam War for no reason.
V-Tech & Unintended Consequences
Urgent action by campus administrators raises some concern whether, in the climate of fear caused by the Virginia Tech gunman’s rampage, there has been a rush to judgment that will lead to unintended consequences at some future date.
Beyond Bias and Barriers
Still trying to prove that Larry Summers was wrong when as president of Harvard, he declared that women just don’t go into science, academics are looking for reasons for the trend that differ from his natural explanation and lean toward nurturing theories.