The bill for legal fees continues to rise at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill after the university was sued for holding “paper classes” to help their student pass fake courses. According to Inside Higher…
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Poor Graduation Rates are the Root Problem for Higher Education
The deputy chancellor and professor of psychological and brain sciences at University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Robert Feldman, did not leave much to the imagination of what the root problem of higher education is today: poor and…
No Violent Protests against Charles Murray at Duke, Columbia
This past week, American Enterprise Institute (AEI) scholar and author, Charles Murray, gave two speeches at Duke University and Columbia University, without a violent protest at either campus. This is newsworthy because his previous speech…
Liberals Endangered in Own Natural Habitat: Liberal Colleges
At Skidmore College, where there are no immediately identifiable conservatives, faculty members have started to intimidate liberals with stray thoughts. Robert Boyers, an English professor at Skidmore, recounted a couple of recent episodes in The…
Syracuse Asked Journalists about Trump’s Relationship with the Press
Journalists are not exactly neutral with the Trump administration, but it is a two-way street. Communications@Syracuse recently asked several D.C.-based journalists, editors and producers on their thoughts on the Trump administration’s relationship with the press….
Professor, who claimed Trump’s Election was an ‘Act of Terrorism,’ Accepted ‘Faculty Member of the Year’ Award
A college professor at Orange Coast College, Olga Perez Stable Cox, was taped by a student when she claimed that the election of Donald Trump as “an act of terrorism.” The student was initially suspended by…
College Professors Want to Cut the Defense Budget
Academics are upset that they don’t get as many chances as they would like to contribute to U. S. foreign policy. Maybe that’s a good thing. On the one hand, most of them opposed the…
British Student Union President Warns against Islamophobia after London Terrorist Attack
The National Union of Students president, Malia Bouattia, issued a letter and warned of possible Islamophobia and prejudice against migrants, Islamophobia and xenophobia against students and non-students in the United Kingdom after the terrorist attack…
Academic Intolerance: An Inside View
We have an old Pennsylvania Dutch saying that goes: “Ve grow too soon alt und too late schmart.” Perhaps many college officers feel this way. “Over the years, I have watched a growing intolerance at…
Bitter Clingers on the Left
The way that leading figures on the political Left cling to disputed data is truly a marvel to behold. In an appearance on Monday, March 20, 2017, at the Center for American Progress (CAP), Valerie…