Race isn’t the biggest issue at the Ivy Leagues, despite what some may think. My class began predictably. The professor exposed the deep racism, sexism, and homophobia of a previous generation. My classmates knew their role all too well and…
It’s every conservative parent’s worst fear: you send your child off to college, and, instead of growing intellectually, he or she joins in the debauchery that has overtaken college campuses. It’s already a fear I have for my own children,…
I’ve been an LSU baseball fan since the mid-1980s, when in 1983 then–athletic director Bob Brodhead hired an assistant coach from the powerhouse Miami Hurricanes program to take over a moribund program. That coach’s name was Skip Bertman, and he…
The biblical command to “Go … and teach all nations” provided the inspiration for the creation of Georgetown University, the first Catholic college in the country. John Carroll, the Jesuit archbishop who founded the college in 1789, chose a site…
Affirmative action in higher education is set to face the judgment of the Supreme Court. The moment is quietly exhilarating. This is an injustice that has been hoisted upon so many, for so long, and with the patronage of so…
Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav had a message for students when he delivered a commencement address at Boston University last week: “Show up,” he said. Alas, a number of students at the ceremony had their own message: “Shut up,…
Oberlin College and Conservatory students are in total freakout mode over the damage that the $36 million lawsuit by Gibson’s Bakery has caused to the college. They are claiming that the school’s desperate efforts to fend off further lawsuits —…
For over a half-century, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) annually has provided data on the salaries of professors. The preliminary data for salary changes for those working in the current (2022–2023) academic year show that for the third…
I saw it and recoiled. There it was, the lead story on my second-favorite website, HuskerMax: The University of Nebraska, home of my beloved Cornhuskers, was pumping big money into an esports program. They were building an esports arena, offering…
