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  • North Carolina drops STEM departments, keeps politically correct ones

    02/25/2024 6:09:41 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 43 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 25 Feb, 2024 | Arnold Cusmariu
    The University of North Carolina system oversees 16 state universities. Campus locations include Chapel Hill, Wilmington, Charlotte, Asheville, and Greensboro. UNC-Chapel Hill, originally called the University of North Carolina, was founded in 1789 and is one of the oldest public universities in the United States. According to Wikipedia statistics, some 245,000 students attended UNC system universities in 2021. One of the schools in the UNC system, UNC-Greensboro, is in the news these days because of a decision by Chancellor Franklin D. Gilliam Jr. to cut undergraduate and/or graduate programs in physics, mathematics, computer science, anthropology and nursing, citing “university direction,...
  • Di Leo: Buying Votes, Class by Class

    02/22/2024 8:43:57 PM PST · by jfd1776 · 1 replies
    Illinois Review ^ | February 22, AD 2024 | John F Di Leo
    The Biden-Harris regime, consistent with its record of daily lawbreaking, has just illegally canceled another $1.2 billion in student loan debt owed by about 150,000 borrowers whose individual loans were about $12,000 each. This is just the latest, on top of three years of other incremental student loan cancellations, totaling about $138 billion in unpaid student loan debt so far, owed by almost four million voters, some of which is still tied up in court, but the regime’s actions have severely jeopardized the government’s ability to ever collect, even if these illegal acts are properly overturned. In some states where...
  • Let Florida Try. The academic marketplace will decide if the state’s higher-ed reform efforts have gone too far.

    02/07/2024 3:49:05 AM PST · by karpov · 7 replies
    James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^ | February 7, 2024 | Michael H. Creswell
    Fueled by political ambition and a distaste for the new left-wing ideological agendas that have taken root on many college campuses, activists and politicians have sought to alter the landscape of higher education in Florida. In many respects, they have succeeded. These reformers have focused much attention on New College of Florida, a public liberal-arts college in Sarasota that had a well-deserved reputation as a breeding ground of progressivism. The school’s extremism sparked the ire of Florida governor Ron DeSantis, who often says that “Florida is where woke goes to die.” According to DeSantis’s chief of staff, James Uthmeier, “It...
  • Don’t Save the Canary, Fix the Coal Mine. Introducing the Universidad de las Hespérides, a classical-liberal startup university.

    02/04/2024 7:13:50 AM PST · by karpov · 4 replies
    James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^ | February 1, 2024 | Nikolai G. Wenzel
    Quite a few scholars have written in favor of developing new institutions of higher education, since most of our current ones have been captured by ideological activists. For example, in this Martin Center article, Robert Wright advocates a “parallel university system.” On that score, there is some good news—it’s happening. The Universidad de las Hespérides is a start-up, online, classical-liberal endeavor. It is an exciting exercise in academic entrepreneurship, combining virtual courses for students around the globe, a blend of synchronous and asynchronous classes, and rigorous scientific inquiry that is firmly based in an appreciation for the philosophical and institutional...
  • The Big University Fail

    12/07/2023 4:32:30 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 30 replies
    City Journal ^ | 6 Dec, 2023 | Liel Leibovitz
    Leaders of elite schools disgrace themselves before Congress—and expose the rot at the core of American higher education. Forget Ridley Scott’s Napoleon, now in theaters: if you want to watch an epic drama of vanity and failed leadership that ends in catastrophe, just tune in to the hearing held this week by the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. Summoned to account for the surging anti-Semitism on their campuses, the presidents of Harvard, MIT, and the University of Pennsylvania delivered a masterclass in obfuscation. When New York representative Elise Stefanik asked them whether calling for the genocide of the...
  • What conservatives get wrong about anti-Israel campus protests

    11/24/2023 11:51:59 AM PST · by Fzob · 42 replies
    MSNBC ^ | 11/25/2023 | Jacques Berlinerblau
    Anti-Israel protests at American universities have made headlines in the aftermath of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack. And almost simultaneously, many conservative critics — including GOP presidential candidates — have used those protests as an opportunity to ramp up their assault on higher education, eagerly yoking them to their long-standing accusations of “liberal indoctrination.” Eliminationist chants, partisan DEI officers, angry mobs hey-hey, ho-ho-ing their support for terrorists — in terms of Republican's favorite straw men, the “woke,” liberal campus of 2023 has them all! Institutions of higher education, conservatives charge, are complicit in fostering an atmosphere of intimidation and even violence...
  • Student newspaper forces out editor for writing about Israeli casualties, not mentioning Palestinians

    11/14/2023 7:13:22 AM PST · by spearmint17 · 3 replies
    Matthew Giffin, a student at Middle Tennessee State University: "As editor-in-chief of my student newspaper, I tried to publish a profile of a student worried about his friends in Israel. The fallout was typical." The newspaper forced him out after publishing a statement claiming he "failed to report on the casualties the Palestinian people have suffered and focused only on damage done to the Israeli population.”
  • Di Leo: Northwestern University Calls on a Controversial Clinton Ally for Help as Troubles Get Worse

    08/05/2023 8:26:09 PM PDT · by jfd1776 · 12 replies
    Illinois Review ^ | August 5, AD 2023 | John F Di Leo
    Northwestern University is in the news these days. Normally, that makes them happy. An allegedly prestigious, globally-renowned research university certainly ought to make the news all the time – with revelations of scientific discoveries, medical breakthroughs, or career announcements about proud alumni. Not today, however. Northwestern is in the news because of a rash of reports – some uncorroborated, some perhaps exaggerated or understated, some likely perfectly accurate – of various types of hazing and otherwise toxic cultures in their athletic programs. A baseball coach was fired for allegedly discouraging students from reporting injuries. A volleyball student’s sensible reticence to...
  • Di Leo: Joe Biden, the Supreme Court, and the Student Loan Game

    07/11/2023 8:58:00 PM PDT · by jfd1776 · 6 replies
    Illinois Review ^ | July 11, AD 2023 | John F Di Leo
    Joe Biden feigned shock when the Supreme Court ruled that he had no authority to wipe out tens of billions of dollars in student loans at the stroke of a pen. The issue is so clearcut, it’s hardly imaginable that we could need to explain it, but let’s begin with that part, to be thorough. Millions of people knowingly, willingly signed onto student loan debts, often while studying for degrees in fields that are well-known for producing relatively low-paying jobs. And then, when they found these burdens to be high after college, they hoped that politicians would let them off...
  • Affirmative Action's Demise and Higher Education

    06/29/2023 7:18:24 PM PDT · by Rummyfan · 9 replies
    Instapundit Substack ^ | 29 June 2023 | Glenn H Reynolds
    So the Supreme Court has ruled against Harvard and UNC, and in the process fatally wounded the “diversity” and “affirmative action” practices of most every higher education institution in America. There’s a lot to say about that, but I want to mark one important point: This ruling represents a drastic retreat in the social position of higher education. Though the ruling itself is not so much the cause as a symptom. Media accounts I’ve seen have tended to suggest that the Supreme Court had found that “diversity” is a compelling interest, sufficient to justify overriding the Constitution’s ban on racial...
  • Temple University unveils porn studies course on sex and ‘the patriarchy’: No ‘right vs. wrong’ perspective

    05/10/2023 5:30:23 PM PDT · by Republican Wildcat · 24 replies
    Fox News ^ | 5/10/2023 | Gabriel Hays
    Course instructor Jennifer Pollitt claimed the course will help fill in gaps in students' sexual education. Temple University in Pennsylvania has started its first "porn-studies course" this semester, aiming to teach students about sex outside of a moral, "right vs wrong" framework. Additionally, the new course, which has become popular at the school, will serve as a "jumping off point" to talk about woke issues like "race, ability, and the patriarchy," the Business Insider reported after talking to the course’s instructor, Professor Jennifer Pollitt. The Insider piece described the course, titled "Social Perspectives and Digital Pornography: The Other Sex Ed,"...
  • A Florida Bill to Promote Fairness on Campus. HB 931 will improve campus debates and ban flagrantly ideological hiring.

    05/07/2023 5:09:35 AM PDT · by karpov · 6 replies
    James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^ | May 5, 2023 | Jenna A. Robinson
    Earlier this week, the Florida legislature passed a bill that may become a model for the nation. House Bill 931, sponsored by State Representative Spencer Roach, requires universities to host public-policy debates and bans the use of political litmus tests in hiring and admissions. Both provisions address the increasing ideological homogeneity on college campuses. In the past three decades, university faculty and administrators have become overwhelmingly liberal. This orthodoxy of opinion is bad for academic research, student learning, and universities’ reputations in the eyes of the public. The bill is inspired by two pieces of model legislation. Its first part...
  • Florida ranked #1 for higher education

    05/05/2023 11:14:16 AM PDT · by CFW · 15 replies
    The College Fix ^ | 5/5/23 | Matt Lamb
    Governor DeSantis’ state continues to succeed in education The latest U.S. News & World Report concluded that Florida is the best state for higher education. The rankings look at “the share of citizens in each state holding college degrees, as well as college graduation rates, the cost of in-state tuition and fees, and the burden of debt that college graduates carry,” according to the publication. The publication also ranked Florida high in 2-year college graduation rate, 4-year college graduation rate and for its students graduating with minimal debt.
  • Ivy League Exodus

    04/29/2023 12:33:15 PM PDT · by Twotone · 52 replies
    Tablet Magazine ^ | April 18, 2023 | Armin Rosen
    Kemp Mill Synagogue is a spiritual home to lobbyists, policy scholars, and White House staffers. It looks out over the opening of a lushly wooded forest valley in suburban Maryland, just down the street from a horse farm. One of its common nicknames used to be Congregation Bnei Ivy—the people of the Ivy League. The name alludes to an enduring way of life for an influential segment of American Jews. The eight Ivy League schools are a collective stand-in for the meritocratic system that turned the children and grandchildren of penniless Yiddish-speakers into some of the richest and most important...
  • GOP lawmakers plan to ban more college majors in FL like ethnic studies, ‘radical’ feminist theory

    03/14/2023 7:30:40 AM PDT · by Jacquerie · 42 replies
    Florida Phoenix ^ | March 13th 2023 | DANIELLE J. BROWN
    The House Postsecondary Education and Workforce Subcommittee approved a proposed committee substitute for HB 999 Monday, replacing the language of the original bill. Republican lawmakers are proposing to expand legislation that would further limit majors and minors available to Florida university students. The legislation also would further undermine tenure protections for professors. The bill in question is HB 999 and it’s called Public Postsecondary Educational Institutions. Lawmakers will be discussing an updated version at a Monday committee meeting, where they will decide whether to accept or reject new expanded language in the bill. The American Association of University Professors said...
  • Columbia professor reverses course on race and gender contract after coming under fire

    01/19/2023 1:36:08 PM PST · by BenLurkin · 16 replies
    Fox News ^ | January 19, 2023 | y Nikolas Lanum | Fox News
    Matthew Salesses, an author and assistant professor of writing at Columbia University's School of the Arts, allegedly created the form as a "commitment to the process" and posted a picture of the paper to his Twitter account. "Made my grad students sign this today because if I'm going to commit to them, they need to commit to themselves," he reportedly said in a since-deleted tweet on Tuesday. The tweet also included a picture of the form, which began by notifying students that failure to uphold the contract would result in a failing grade for the course. The document first told...
  • Fewer than half of students at Cambridge University are heterosexual... with a third identifying as bisexual, survey suggests

    11/27/2022 9:04:45 PM PST · by blueplum · 81 replies
    The Daily Mail ^ | 27 Nov 2022 | By LIZ HULL
    Less than half of students at Cambridge University now identify as heterosexual, a survey has found. Around 600 undergraduates took part in the anonymous online poll for student newspaper Varsity last month. Of those, just 49.7 per cent said they were heterosexual... ...The findings of the Varsity poll also tally with a survey by Oxford University’s student paper Cherwell, which found 49 per cent of students identified as heterosexual ...
  • Texas Wesleyan Cancels Play After Students Say Use of Slur Is Harmful [The writer of the play is black]

    10/06/2022 9:40:54 PM PDT · by grundle · 18 replies
    New York Times ^ | October 6, 2022 | April Rubin
    The play’s author, who is Black, said he crafted its language to be historically accurate in representing civil rights struggles. But the theater program at the university heeded the call of students. Texas Wesleyan University halted its production of “Down In Mississippi,” a play about registering voters in the 1960s, after criticism from students who said racist epithets in the script could contribute to a hostile, unwelcoming environment. Its author said he was using that language to represent the reality of the period. The play by Carlyle Brown, a Black playwright based in Minneapolis, focuses on the efforts of a...
  • Student Loans from A to Z: Buying Votes Instead of Solving Problems

    08/29/2022 8:39:40 PM PDT · by jfd1776 · 4 replies
    Illinois Review ^ | August 29, AD 2022 | John F Di Leo
    The news of the week concerns the Biden-Regime’s $10,000/student (or in some cases, $20,000/student) loan write-off, being portrayed as a debt forgiveness. It’s not. Today, let’s consider some of the basics that the debate has forgotten – basics that involve not only the schools, the banks, and the students, but the taxpayers, the economy, and civilization itself. Advance warning: this is going to be a long one; it's a big topic. MORAL HAZARD Think of the famous concept of the “butterfly effect” – the idea that every action might be a cause of other, possibly unanticipated results down the line....
  • Some say the classics are racist. One black professor begs to differ.

    06/08/2022 9:47:12 PM PDT · by ChipMarne · 16 replies
    The College Fix ^ | June 9 2022 | Bar Niazov
    Amid ongoing controversy over whether education in the classics should be eliminated or reformed to exclude works deemed too Western or white, a black professor affirmed that the classics are for everyone. University of Virginia sociology Professor Angel Parham said the study of Greco-Roman culture still has “much to teach us.” The classics should be “elevated and broadened,” not repudiated, she wrote in a May 20 op-ed for The Wall Street Journal. “The study of Greek and Latin literature and history has a proven record of lifting the performance of students, especially the disadvantaged.” “…It is ironic that critics deem...