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  • Scientists warn: Declining academic standards mixed with DEI recipe for disaster

    02/04/2024 3:57:56 PM PST · by george76 · 46 replies
    College Fix ^ | FEBRUARY 1, 2024 | DANIEL NUCCIO
    The continued embrace of diversity, equity and inclusion in STEM combined with a broad decline in academic standards is producing a generation of scientists who are less capable than their predecessors, warned some scientists in recent interviews with The College Fix. From easier math classes in high school to the elimination of standardized tests to extreme grade-inflation to DEI tropes that elevate lived experiences and ways of knowing over facts and data, the trend represents a pressing problem for science professors working to protect STEM and preserve its standards and meritocracy. Alex Small, chair of the physics and astronomy department...
  • The Woke Revolution Is Erasing the Past

    04/22/2023 5:58:32 AM PDT · by Twotone · 17 replies
    Real Clear Politics ^ | April 19, 2023 | J. Peder Zane
    Students of English and history are going the way of the dodo bird. During just the last decade, their numbers at colleges and universities have dropped by a third – and humanities enrollment is down by 17%, Nathan Heller reports in his recent New Yorker article, “The End of the English Major.” Data collected by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ Humanities Indicators project show that “from 2012 to 2020 the number of graduated humanities majors at Ohio State’s main campus fell by forty-six per cent. Tufts lost nearly fifty per cent of its humanities majors, and Boston University...
  • Recent First Ladies and Their Academic Degrees: A Look at their Degree-awarded Ventures in Academic Expositions

    03/10/2023 6:38:05 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 10 replies
    PJ Media ^ | 03/10/2023 | David Solway
    The privileges, interests, biographies, fetishes and investments of researchers typically remain subtext. —Michelle Fine, Working the HyphenI am frankly amazed at the intellectual ineptitude revealed by our recent Democrat First Ladies’ degree-awarded ventures in academic exposition and by the media adulation they have received for their efforts. Having recently published an analysis of Jill Biden’s doctoral dissertation, pointing out its utter inadequacy, I find it comes as no surprise that former First Lady Michelle Obama considers it a work of substantial merit and heaps accolades on Biden as “a brilliant woman who has distinguished herself in her profession.”Michelle Obama is...
  • Georgetown University fires professor for violating a taboo on discussing Black academic performance: Truth is no defense when taboos are violated

    03/12/2021 7:21:18 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 28 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 03/12/2021 | Thomas Lifson
    A conversation on the academic performance of Black law students between two faculty members teaching at Georgetown following a Zoom session was recorded and posted online without their knowledge. As a result, one of them has been fired and tearfully apologized, while the other one is "on leave until the investigation by the Office of Diversity, Equity and Affirmative Action is complete" for failing to react in outrage over what the dean of the law school termed "reprehensible statements concerning the evaluation of Black students." Both professors are adjunct faculty, meaning they are professionals brought in teach students with their...
  • The Woke ‘Model Minority’ Myth (Gated Content)

    02/23/2021 2:43:19 PM PST · by NohSpinZone · 13 replies
    Wall Street Journal Opinion Page ^ | 2/22/2021 | By William McGurn
    “Asian-Americans are caught in a bind—condemn the system of white supremacy and privilege along with other people of color or be ‘banished’ from the victim group as white-adjacent,” says Wenyuan Wu, executive director of Californians for Equal Rights. “The end goal here is to pit people against each other as if our hyphenated identities are bigger than our common destiny as Americans.” The principal reason for this is the fact of Asian-American achievement. This is an embarrassment to progressives because it undermines the claim that structural racism dooms nonwhite citizens to the margins of the American dream. So Asian-American achievement...
  • S.F. school board strips Lowell High of its merit-based admissions system

    02/10/2021 7:05:57 AM PST · by NohSpinZone · 41 replies
    SF Gate ^ | 2/10/2021 | Jill Tucker
    One of the top-performing public high schools in the country will no longer admit students based on academic performance, ending more than a century of merit-based admissions. The San Francisco Board of Education voted 5-2 to use the same lottery-based system to assign students to Lowell High as other district high schools instead of maintaining the previous system of test scores and grades. Board members cited “pervasive systemic racism” and a lack of diversity at Lowell as the primary reason to end the merit-based admission process following an incident in which students were exposed to racist, pornographic and antisemitic images...
  • Arrogant Dem quote of the week: Rural Americans ‘have no contact with the expert class’ (David Brooks)

    12/12/2020 10:25:52 AM PST · by yesthatjallen · 127 replies
    Newsla ^ | 12 10 2020 | Staff
    New York Times op-ed columnist David Brooks ignited a wave of backlash after insulting rural Americans who have no contact with the “expert class.” SNIP “Look at how much more Republicans are affected by conspiracy theories than the Democrats, so it can’t just be the internet, there must be some demand,” Brooks said, pointing out the “two core problems.” “A lot of people in the expert class live in blue cities who are thriving,” he claimed. “And a lot of people left behind in the rural parts of America, they feel threatened economically, culturally, socially and they have no contact...
  • It Was A Good Run (The End Of College Is Near)

    01/08/2020 4:05:30 PM PST · by blam · 68 replies
    Mauldin Economics ^ | 1-8-2020 | Jared Dillan
    I predict that 20% of colleges and universities will shut down or merge in the next 10 years, and probably more. It was a good run. Most people fail to understand that higher education is in itself countercyclical. When the economy is bad, and people lose jobs, many of them will go back to school. You have probably heard about the for-profit education boom and bust. That is old news. You might not have heard that total enrollment has been declining for the last eight years as the economy has improved. What comes next will pulverize nearly every institution of...
  • Half in U.S. Now Consider College Education Very Important (down from 70% in 2013)

    12/24/2019 11:30:49 AM PST · by karpov · 48 replies
    Gallup ^ | December 12, 2019 | Stephanie Marken
    About half of U.S. adults (51%) now consider a college education to be "very important," down from 70% in 2013. Over the same period, the percentages rating college as "fairly important" and "not too important" have both increased, to 36% and 13%, respectively. Perceptions that a college education is very important have declined in the U.S. among all age groups since 2013, but the drop has been especially pronounced -- 33 percentage points -- among adults aged 18 to 29. As a result, younger adults are now less likely than middle-aged adults and seniors to consider college as very important,...
  • ‘We want more Chinese students’: Donald Trump says US looking for ways to keep scholars in country

    06/29/2019 7:52:42 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 73 replies
    South China Morning Post ^ | 06/29/2019 | Laura Zhou
    US President Donald Trump said he wanted more Chinese students to go to the United States as concern grows about Chinese scholars in American academia. “We want to have Chinese students [go] to our great schools and great universities. They are great students and tremendous assets,” Trump said on the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit in Osaka, Japan, on Saturday. Trump said “someone” had said it was harder for Chinese students to go to the US under his immigration policy. “If it were, that somebody viewed it that way, I don’t,” Trump said, adding that students from China...
  • Chinese scientists guilty of ‘researching while Asian’ in Trump’s America

    06/29/2019 7:02:21 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 17 replies
    South China Morning Post ^ | 06/29/2019 | Peter Waldman
    The dossier on cancer researcher Wu Xifeng was thick with intrigue, if hardly the stuff of a spy thriller. It contained findings that she’d im­properly shared confi­den­tial information and accepted a half-dozen advisory roles at medical institutions in China. She might have weathered those allegations, but for a larger aspersion that was far more problematic: she was branded an oncological double agent. In recent decades, cancer research has become increasingly globalised, with scientists around the world pooling data and ideas to jointly study a disease that kills almost 10 million people a year. International collaborations are an intrinsic part of...
  • MIT president criticizes Washington for ‘unfounded suspicions’ about Chinese academics

    06/26/2019 12:29:29 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 59 replies
    South China Morning Post ^ | 06/26/2019 | Robert Delaney
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s president has accused the US government of creating “a toxic atmosphere” for academics of Chinese descent in its efforts to prevent Beijing from acquiring advanced American technology. “I am well aware of the risks of academic espionage and MIT has established prudent policies to protect against such breaches,” L. Rafael Reif said in a letter to the school’s faculty, students, staff and alumni. “But we must take great care not to create a toxic atmosphere of unfounded suspicion and fear. Looking at cases across the nation, small numbers of researchers of Chinese background may indeed have...
  • College Board president pushing 'adversity score' is same man behind Common Core program

    05/17/2019 9:53:12 AM PDT · by Altura Ct. · 22 replies
    Fox ^ | 5/17/19
    The College Board president behind the recent decision to assign applicants an "adversity score" is the same man who courted controversy pushing Common Core, the national K-12 curriculum standards project that several states adopted, then dropped under pressure from education activists. David Coleman, the architect of Common Core and current president and chief executive of the College Board, has a controversial history with standardized tests and higher learning. Critics claim Common Core, which was designed to establish baseline K-12 curriculum standards but was derided as a power grab from local school boards, should be seen as a cautionary tale. They...
  • Failing Academic Standards: Are Today’s Graduates Really Educated?

    05/16/2019 8:59:02 AM PDT · by fwdude · 64 replies
    Barbwire ^ | May 16, 2019 | Doug Carter
    America’s new academic standards are failing our students. Despite what official transcripts say, I’m concerned many graduates did not earn their diploma. As a seasoned high school teacher and college professor pondering my 14th graduation ceremony, I couldn’t help wondering how many students around the country will graduate with a high school or college degree, but not an education. It’s no secret we have a terrible illiteracy problem. But what I address here goes beyond illiteracy and marches smack through the front door of an academic house of cards. Inside, my colleagues and I share deep concerns about failing students...
  • Prof's constitutional right to 'hate white people' affirmed

    11/17/2018 8:01:34 AM PST · by rktman · 51 replies
    wnd.com ^ | 11/16/2018 | unknown
    It’s the First Amendment that Rutgers University history professor James Livingston can thank for avoiding punishment for posting on Facebook his hatred for “white people.” He responded in anger when he found a restaurant in his Harlem neighborhood was too busy: “OK, officially, I now hate white people. I am a white people, for God’s sake, but can we keep them–us–us out of my neighborhood?” Livingston said the restaurant was “overrun with little Caucasian a——-.” “I hereby resign from my race.” His posts were noticed by news outlets, and members of the public complained to the university. Rutgers’ Office of...
  • Christine Ford's Expert Nonsense

    09/28/2018 7:24:03 AM PDT · by rktman · 52 replies
    americanthinker.com ^ | 9/28/2018 | Christopher DeGroot
    Given her background in psychology, it is not surprising that during yesterday's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Christine Ford should tell us that the laughter of Judge Brett Kavanaugh and his friend Mark Judge is indelible in her hippocampus. Nor is it unusual that it took the New Republic only a few minutes to publish a characteristically biased and irresponsible article on the subject.
  • Ohio State academic misconduct cases on the rise

    09/21/2018 7:21:23 AM PDT · by buckalfa · 7 replies
    The Lantern ^ | September 19, 2018 | Zach Varda
    The temptation to cheat is as old as the idea of administering exams and writing essays. As technology continues to evolve, cheating has become easier through the use of group chat apps like GroupMe and websites like Course Hero that let students share course materials. As a result, more Ohio State students are giving in to the temptation. A Lantern review of annual reports and statistics compiled by Ohio State’s Committee on Academic Misconduct reveals a large spike in the number of reported cases of cheating over the past four school years.
  • Penn's Amy Wax on Being Ousted Over Views on Race, Academics, Bourgeois Values; Illiberalism (AUDIO)

    06/20/2018 5:59:31 AM PDT · by fredericbastiat1 · 17 replies
    Big Ideas with Ben Weingarten ^ | 6/20/2018 | Ben Weingarten
    Penn Law Professor Amy Wax has become a controversial figure because of her politically incorrect comments advocating in favor of bourgeois values and the WASP culture from which they stem, and in her claims that black students had generally performed at lower levels than other students in her classes in context of a conversation about the downsides of affirmative action -- comments that got her ousted from teaching the first year civil procedure class for which she had previously won an award for "teaching excellence." Professor Wax and I touched on her beliefs regarding bourgeois values, the comments on race...
  • The Closing of the Academic Mind

    02/20/2018 4:30:21 PM PST · by Wuli · 18 replies
    Wall Street Journal ^ | 2/17/2018 | Amy Wax
    A professor pilloried for her views asks if it's still possible to have substantive arguments about divisive issues. ...... The op-ed, which I co-authored with Larry Alexander of the University of San Diego Law School, appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer on Aug. 9 under the headline, “Paying the Price for the Breakdown of the Country’s Bourgeois Culture.” It began by listing some of the ills afflicting American society: ...... We then discussed .. a list of behavioral norms—that was almost universally endorsed between the end of World War II and the mid-1960s: Get married before having children and strive to...
  • Are We Free to Discuss America's Real Problems?

    02/04/2018 10:47:42 AM PST · by Osage Orange · 16 replies
    Hillsdale College Imprimis ^ | January 2018 | Amy L. Wax
    Amy Wax Amy L. Wax is the Robert Mundheim Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she has received the Harvey Levin Memorial Award for Teaching Excellence. She has a B.S. from Yale College, an M.D. from Harvard Medical School, and a J.D. from Columbia Law School. She is a former assistant to the United States Solicitor Genera. The following is adapted from a speech delivered on December 12, 2017, at Hillsdale College’s Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship in Washington, D.C., as part of the AWC Family Foundation Lecture Series. There...