In these days of rapidly escalating college tuition costs, the very mention of an institution like Berea College can make the heads of pricey schools a bit defensive.
Articles By: Deborah Lambert
Students in Stripes?
Starting this fall, anyone who violates the dress code at Gonzales High School will spend the rest of the day in a prison-like jump suit.
Am I Diverse Enough?
While the goal was supposedly a climate of “cultural tolerance and understanding,” Berkeley “appeared to encourage a divisive culture of victimhood and entitlement,” says a former student.
The UN Deforms Education
British tots will soon be subjected to “lessons on human rights and multiculturalism, in between finger-painting sessions and nap time.”
Wikipedia Ate My Homework
Wikipedia, the much-ballyhooed online information source, was recently blamed, along with other online research sites, “for Scotland’s falling exam pass rates.”
Save the Children
First it was dodge ball, then it was tag. Now it is sack races and three-legged races that might cause children harm.
Speaking of Change…
When 11 percent of Yale’s senior class, 10 percent of Georgetown’s and 9 percent of Harvard’s head off to teach at some of America’s most impoverished inner city schools for the next couple of years, something’s going on.
U-Chi’s Dishonorable Faculty
Nearly 100 U-Chi faculty members have signed a petition against establishing a Milton Friedman Institute on campus.
Strapless Commencement
Principals apparently still frown on the “Lolita look” at graduation.
Waste Not, Want Not
There’s a new “academic endeavor” coming soon to a campus near you. It’s called “Waste Studies.”