An outfit called Business Student actually crunched the numbers for the top 50 schools and found their acceptance rates dropped from one-third to one-quarter of applications.
Topic: Northwestern
University Teacher Training Still Obsolete
Economist Walter Williams has called education schools the ghettos of universities and, like some neighborhoods that might be described that way, they resist improvement even when their deterioration is obvious to everyone outside their borders.
Charles Manson: An Academic Question
Less well known is the admiration he engendered in an academic icon–Bernardine Dohrn.
Northwestern University Condemns ‘Disrespectful’ Behavior of Students during ICE Agent Presentation
After protesting students disrupted a presentation by several federal officials, one from ICE and another from the Department of Justice, the Northwestern University president condemned the “disrespectful” behavior of the students.
Professor Laura Kipnis Sued by Student who Started Title IX Investigation Mentioned in Kipnis’s book
Laura Kipnis, the college professor who was investigated for writing an essay, is now being sued by a student who started the Title IX investigation against a colleague of Kipnis’s.
Presentation by ICE Agent, DOJ Official Shut Down by Disruptive Protesters at Northwestern University
A presentation by an ICE official and an official from the Department of Justice was shouted down by disruptive protesters at Northwestern University.
Anti-Semitism on Campus 2017
A new report said that at the 113 U.S. schools that Jews were most likely to attend, anti-Semitic incidents went up 40% from 2015 to 2016.
Book Review: Northwestern College Professor Survived a Title IX Investigation over an Essay She Wrote
Laura Kipnis, a professor at Northwestern University, faced a Title IX investigation from the U.S. Department of Education over an essay on sexual paranoia among Millennials and their professors and administrators on college campuses (which…
Northwestern University to Fly a ‘Black Lives Matter’ Flag
This means that Northwestern is the third university to fly a ‘Black Lives Matter’ flag on their college campus, following the lead of the University of Vermont and Illinois State.
Northwestern Professor: Christian Fundamentalism is More Dangerous than Radical Islam
Huh? She’s being serious, apparently: “Humanist” scholar Catherine M. Wallace of Northwestern University told the Seminary Co-op near the University of Chicago that “the Christian fundamentalist movement in the United States is more dangerous than Islamic…