Stanford University students are divided on whether there should be a requirement to take two Western Civilization courses at the institution before graduating. Photo by HarshLight
Topic: Stanford
Is Political Science Dying? Sounds Like It
A good read from The Weekly Standard on the possible dying breed of political science majors.
Good News on Global Warming
It turns out that there may be textbooks that chronicle global warming as something other than an environmental catastrophe and academics are up in arms about them, and in California, no less! “Our findings showed…
Stanford Student Demonstration Ends after Disciplinary Action is Brought Up
Campus Reform reported the following: After initially resisting threats of disciplinary action, student activists demanding that Stanford University sell off all its investments in fossil fuel companies finally ended their week-long demonstration. Five days after…
Stanford Students want a “Sustainable Food-Themed” Dining Hall
Seriously, this is something worth paying for at a top-notch university?
Moral Dementia at Stanford and Berkeley
In a display of moral narcissism that British columnist Melanie Phillips has characterized as a “dialogue of the demented,”Stanford students staged a public protest on October 19th to once again denounce Israel and, presumably, to honor…
Stanford’s “Angel of Grief” Statue Vandalized as Arm is Cut Off
Really, of all the statues to vandalize, some person decided to choose the “Angel of Grief” to cut off its arm. Classless move.
Teaching Moment on Baltimore Missed
Here’s what so-called “teachable moments” in academia generally miss—the decade those moments are in. “There is a revolution taking place in the United States,” Stanford researchers Travis Bristol and Claude Goldenberg write of their Edutopia…
Creativity and Common Core
This SXSWedu session’s description sums up the matter: “What if job performance was measured by a year-end test aiming to boil all of our work down to a single score? As meaningless as that would…