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Todd Zywicki, George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law, Roger Meiners, Professor of Economics at University of Texas–Arlington, Benjamin Ginsberg, Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University, and Lee Fritschler, Professor Emeritus, Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University, joined the Cato Institute on February 12 to discuss the problems plaguing higher […]

Professors at the University of North Carolina are threatening a walkout if Confederate Statue Silent Sam, pulled down last summer, gets a new home anywhere near campus.

The reason behind these proposed restrictions are spying and intellectual property theft by Chinese nationals, who study at American universities and colleges.

The Democratic challenger, locked in a neck-and-neck race, as of this writing, with conservative icon, U. S. Senator Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is running a well-oiled, financially at least, campaign largely driven by contributions from employees of the University of Texas.

Johns Hopkins University will maintain it’s relationship with the U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency despite petitions from members of the JHU community that it abrogate such ties.

The University of Texas at Austin seems to think so. “For example, UT has a Social Justice Institute, a ‘central component’ of the UT Community Engagement Center within the 94-person Department of Diversity and Community Engagement, headed by Eric Tang, a former community organizer,” Mark Pulliam, a UT alum, writes in an essay distributed by […]

Its return has been long overdue and the president may be the catalyst.

Maybe not, but it looks like some are more costly than others.

Because they can.

The former Secretary of Education following the path of his predecessors at the U. S. Department and continuing to propose ineffectual reforms that may backfire on his political constituency.

As a fellow at the Hamilton Center, Mary Grabar gets to follow closely the comings and goings at nearby Hamilton College.

Most media outlets reported on the Government Accountability Office (GAO) study on disparities in school discipline without much follow up, but Manhattan Institute fellow Heather Mac Donald took a closer look at federal school and crime data and found the GAO study misleading, to say the least.