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  • Will Higher Ed Be Next Bubble To Burst Open?

    07/20/2011 5:11:16 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 51 replies
    IBD Editorials ^ | July 20, 2011 | MICHAEL BARONE
    When governments want to encourage what they believe is beneficial behavior, they subsidize it. Sounds like good public policy. But there can be problems. Behavior that is beneficial for most people may not be so for everybody. And government subsidies can go too far. Subsidies create incentives for what economists call rent-seeking behavior. Providers of supposedly beneficial goods or services try to sop up as much of the subsidy money as they can by raising prices. After all, their customers pay with money supplied by the government. Bubble money, as it turns out. Sooner or later, bubbles burst. We are...
  • Higher Education Coalition attack on [Texas Gov. Rick] Perry raises eyebrows

    07/09/2011 3:16:23 AM PDT · by Cincinatus' Wife · 81 replies
    Lone Star Report ^ | July 8, 2011 | William Lutz
    The Coalition for Higher Excellence in Higher Education – a group that supports higher education reform ideas offered by the state’s university presidents and chancellors and has expressed concerns with some higher education reform ideas offered from outside academia – fired a rhetorical howitzer at Gov. Rick Perry yesterday. Political observers in Texas are left wondering why the organization chose to attack Perry by name and how this will play out. The coalition’s main communications consultants used to work for U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and former president George W. Bush, two elected officials whose political interests have not always...
  • CINO Schools Lose Foothold

    06/14/2011 7:50:31 AM PDT · by Academiadotorg
    Accuracy in Academia ^ | June 13, 2011 | Malcolm A. Kline
    One Catholic college made the U. S. News & World Report lists of “most popular” among applicants and “most loved” by alumni and it is none of the ones the media like to cover—those institutions that could be called Catholic in Name Only (CINO). “For several years, Thomas Aquinas College has ranked near the top of U. S. News & World Report’s annual measure of ‘yield’—the percentage of applicants who, upon being admitted to a college, choose to enroll there,” TAC proudly announced in its Spring 2011 newsletter. “Although heartening, these findings have told only half of the story.” Additionally,...
  • Graduates Chase Green Jobs

    04/13/2011 9:13:48 AM PDT · by Academiadotorg · 13 replies
    Accuracy in Academia ^ | April 13, 2011 | Malcolm A. Kline
    Colleges and universities are promising graduates “green jobs” at the end of their education, secure in the knowledge that if they fail to materialize, schools won’t be liable for damages under Truth in Advertising laws. Google the phrase “college programs for green jobs” and you get more than four million results. “Green Jobs are a growth industry,” the University of Maryland promises in a recent advertisement. “Today’s fastest growing job opportunities are green.” “Companies need professionals who can improve corporate safety, efficiency and compliance with government regulations. Be ready, with a bachelor’s or master’s degree or a certificate in environmental...
  • What Students Learn and Don't Learn (Academic Dumbing Down Alert)

    04/08/2011 10:40:49 AM PDT · by Fiji Hill · 1 replies
    Eagle Forum ^ | April 8, 2011 | Phyllis Schlafly
    What Students Learn and Don't Learn By Phyllis Schlafly If you are attending college to get teacher certification, you will probably be required to attend classes on "multicultural education." This is supposed to bring diversity to the classroom and prepare teachers to teach pupils of various ethnic or national backgrounds. The textbooks in these courses typically include Teachers as Cultural Workers by Paulo Freire, a Brazilian socialist who preached that society is divided into oppressors and oppressed. Other required readings teach that Americans are an institutionally racist society and are designed to train teachers to create political radicals to...
  • Shhhh: Judeo-Christian Culture Is Actually...Superior

    04/06/2011 3:29:23 AM PDT · by Scanian · 33 replies
    The American Thinker ^ | Stuart Schwartz
    Shhh. I am about to say is something so radical that it will jangle every politically correct nerve in your body. And yet...it is true. The founding and traditional culture of the United States, its Judeo-Christian heritage and boots-on-the-ground decency is superior to all other cultures this world has produced. And it certainly beats the radical worldview (part Marxist, part Islamic, and all thug) that our political and media elites -- led by the president of the United States -- are imposing upon us. Scream if you must -- but then think. Think about what former Godfathers Pizza CEO Herman...
  • For-profit colleges leave many with debt but no jobs

    03/29/2011 9:46:30 PM PDT · by TheDingoAteMyBaby · 96 replies
    Tampa Bay Online ^ | March 27, 2011 | LINDSAY PETERSON
    TAMPA - Westwood College representatives questioned Becky Loring about her hopes for the future. And when she wavered — worried about whether she could afford the $45,000 program — the recruiter used Loring's own words to seal the deal. "If you don't do this," she recalled the representative saying, "you're never going to get what you've always wanted." Loring, 32, now owes the government and private lenders more than $100,000. Working in sales, she is far from the graphic design job she studied for, barely able to make her college loan interest payments. "When I think about it, I just...
  • Cartoon explains liberal universities. Funny, and a bit scary.

    03/14/2011 10:04:09 PM PDT · by Triton42 · 10 replies
    Is your son or daughter being taught by professors who think like this? This video reveals the mindset behind the liberal universities filled with people who think it's their job to make liberals out of their students. Liberal Universities Explained.
  • UK: Large Arab gifts to universities lead to 'hostile' teaching (Libya and the LSE)

    03/03/2011 11:29:55 AM PST · by knighthawk · 4 replies
    UK Telegraph ^ | March 03 2011 | Stephen Pollard
    If Sir Howard Davies, the director of the London School of Economics, had a shred of honour, his resignation would already be with his university’s governing council. The LSE’s shameless prostituting of its good name in return for Muammar Gaddafi’s blood money (as the Tory MP Robert Halfon has rightly called it) is as great a betrayal of the spirit of a university as there has ever been in Britain. But while it will take the LSE quite some time to regain a seat at the table of respectability, it is not the only university that has reason to feel...
  • Elite Universities Slow to Welcome Back ROTC

    03/02/2011 9:59:05 AM PST · by STONEWALLS · 11 replies
    FOX ^ | February 28, 2011 | Garrett Tenney
    In light of the repeal of the military's “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy against openly gay servicemembers, some elite colleges and universities that have long banned ROTC programs on campus have begun considering changes in their policies. But some military advocacy groups say change is not happening fast enough, and these schools continue to find more excuses to keep ROTC off campus. Now there is a growing movement to enforce an existing law that prohibits giving federal funds to such institutions. The colleges' “whole justification of 'don't ask, don't tell' (to ban ROTC) was not a really honest reason to...
  • The Miseducation of America

    02/16/2011 10:44:51 AM PST · by 6ft2inhighheelshoes · 18 replies
    Sultan Knish a blog by Daniel Greenfield ^ | Feb. 15, 2011 | Daniel Greenfield
    The last two years have been another reminder that education is not equivalent to competence, intelligence or experience, let alone wisdom, as an administration of people who have hardly held actual jobs outside of academia have proven that they are very good at assigning blame and conducting internal rivalries, and absolutely terrible at everything else. William F. Buckley famous opined that he would "sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University". We have spent the last two...
  • Egypt's Al-Azhar Clerics: We declare war on America

    03/05/2002 2:41:31 PM PST · by vannrox · 33 replies · 397+ views
    MEM-RI The Middle East Media Research Institute ^ | November 2, 2001 | Egypt's Al-Azhar University
    Special Dispatch 296 – Jihad and Terrorism Studies November 2, 2001 Terror in America (22): Egypt's Al-Azhar Clerics: We declare war on America The unofficial website of Egypt's Al-Azhar University, www.lailatalqadr.com, continues to post anti-American statements made by the university's clerics and professors pertaining to the U.S. war against terrorism. Moussa Hal, a reporter for the website, compiled these statements and published them in a number of articles entitled "Islamic clerics in Egypt declare war on America."[1] The following are excerpts from the site: Hal reported that Sheikh Ali Abu Al-Hassan, head of Al-Azhar's Religious Ruling Committee, said, "It ...
  • Nick Clegg orders universities to lower entrance requirements - but only for poorer students

    02/08/2011 10:13:07 PM PST · by Niuhuru · 11 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 11:17 PM on 8th February 2011 | James Chapman
    Nick Clegg is to make an explosive attack on British universities as ‘instruments of social segregation’ as he orders them to stop taking so many middle-class students. The Deputy Prime Minister will this week insist that top institutions must ‘throw open their doors’ and lower their entrance requirements for the less well-off.
  • Cambridge University first to charge £9,000 fees - unless your family's poor

    02/08/2011 10:06:02 PM PST · by Niuhuru · 6 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 5:20 AM on 9th February 2011 | Kate Loveys
    Cambridge has become the first university to announce that it will charge maximum tuition fees of £9,000 a year. But it will give hefty discounts to poorer students, which means the middle classes will bear the brunt of the move. MPs voted in December to raise tuition fees to £6,000 per year from 2012, with universities allowed to charge £9,000 in exceptional circumstances.
  • The challenge of public diplomacy vis-a-vis the delegitimisation of Israel

    01/05/2011 10:07:18 AM PST · by ventanax5 · 6 replies
    melanie phillips ^ | Melanie Phillips
    As we all know by now, Israel has lost the battle for public opinion in the west. Even the Israel government is now acknowledging this fact. Israel and its defenders have been outclassed and outmanoeuvred in a war of the mind being waged on a battleground it never even acknowledged it was on. Calls for more and better hasbara, however, are meaningless if the message or narrative promoted by Israel and its defenders misses the point of the attack being waged upon it. And it does miss that point, by a mile. You cannot resist or overcome a threat unless...
  • Earmarking Artificial Growth

    12/14/2010 9:01:01 AM PST · by Academiadotorg · 1 replies · 1+ views
    Accuracy in Academia ^ | December 14, 2010 | Malcolm A. Kline
    In an age of limits, colleges and universities are expanding, with the aid of taxpayers with increasingly limited resources. “Colleges stand to lose billions of dollars for research, facilities, and other purposes if Congressional leaders hold firm in their pledge to ban earmarks, the spending that individual members direct to their home states and favorite projects outside of the competitive processes,” Kevin Kiley reported in the December 17, 2010 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education. “Some of the biggest losers would be colleges in states whose lawmakers in Washington hold top positions on appropriations committees, and which have traditionally...
  • Screwed Up Incentives in Higher Education

    11/27/2010 4:37:42 PM PST · by JerseyHighlander · 19 replies · 1+ views
    Top Hat Monocle Blog ^ | Nov 27 2010 | Mike Silagadze
    I've spent the last year working on an education product and trying to get it into as many classrooms as possible. This has given me a unique perspective into how many areas of universities operate - from the students, to the professors, to the administration. I've also done grad school, and my partner at Top Hat Monocle is a recently minted PhD. I think I've gotten a pretty good feel for the higher-education system (at least in Canada and the US.) Unfortunately what I've found is that it's really pretty badly broken. I'm certainly not the first person to say...
  • Ranks of millionaire college presidents grow

    11/15/2010 6:35:05 AM PST · by STONEWALLS · 10 replies
    Fox News ^ | November 14, 2010 | AP
    The club of private college and university presidents earning seven figures is getting less exclusive. Thirty presidents received more than $1 million in pay and benefits in 2008, according to an analysis of federal tax forms by The Chronicle of Higher Education. More than 1 in 5 chief executives at the 448 institutions surveyed topped $600,000. Most of the pay packages were negotiated before the full force of the recession. But even if the numbers dip slightly in next year's survey, executive pay is expected to keep climbing over the long term as colleges compete for top talent. And schools...
  • Liberalism on Campus

    11/10/2010 7:44:58 AM PST · by JohnRLott · 28 replies
    The Dartmouth ^ | November 10, 2010 | Roger Lott
    An axe-wielding Christ-figure stands before a fallen cross and a junk heap of shattered cultural symbols. Small, ghostly children stand in the shadow of a zombie-like schoolteacher, their gray-and-black schoolhouse looming in the distance. A gray-skinned Hernan Cortez stands in front of his burning ships, standing over piles of naked Native bodies lying at his feet. These are some of the scenes José Clemente Orozco paints in “The Epic of American Civilization,” which is housed in Baker Library’s Reserve Corridor. Although Orozco shied away from politics, it’s not hard to guess where his sympathies lay. His belief in the need...
  • Islamic students at top university 'are preaching hard-line extremism,' terror experts warn

    10/17/2010 9:24:06 PM PDT · by fightinJAG · 5 replies
    Daily Mail U.K. ^ | Oct.18, 2010 | Staff
    Think tank finds evidence of moderate Muslims being radicalised and Jewish students intimidated Radical Islamic extremism is being openly practised at a leading university campus, a report today claimed. Think tank Quilliam said they had evidence of hard-line Islamist ideology being promoted through the leadership of the university's student Islamic Society at City University in central London. The group had intimidated and harassed staff, students and members of minority groups, it was claimed.