Due to a new endowment by the University of Texas-Austin, low- and middle-income students could receive free college tuition if their family earns up to $60,000 a year.
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5 Crazy Professors Caught on Video
While there are way more incidences of crazy professors caught on video, here are five who will surely make wonder what has happened to today’s college campuses
The Business of Academia
Academics are hardly shy about offering businesses advice but they go ballistic when industry deigns to return the favor.
Racial Preferences Backfire Legally
Racial preferences embraced by supposedly elite law schools may actually be forcing blacks out of the legal profession.
Racial Preferences Hurt Minorities
Race-based college admission preferences actually hurt minority applicants, three members of the U. S. Civil Rights Commission allege.
Proposition 209 Helped Blacks
An historic ballot proposition passed by California voters in 1996 to end race-based admissions to the University of California may have led to more blacks being admitted to UC.
Professing Against Proposition 8
The trial to decide whether California’s Proposition 8 was unconstitutional by banning same-sex marriage opened on January 11 before the California Supreme Court. A large portion of the testimony will originate in the ivory tower.
Radical Academic Credos
For supporters of David Horowitz’s student Academic Bill of Rights, academic freedom is about protecting vulnerable students from indoctrination at the hands of radical professors. However, one DePaul University professor recently argued that Horowitz’s conception of academic freedom promotes a “distinctly right-wing agenda” and “contains within it a backhanded insult to the intelligence of the students he is purporting to protect.”
Academic Gold Rush
Academia’s eternal cry that universities cannot survive without increased government funding is far from the truth, just look at their portfolios.
Academia Adrift
Those who think that critics of higher education seek to use classrooms for conservative training camps rather than ideological laboratories of the left should hear what economist Roger Meiners has to say.