March Madness came early to the Dartmouth College basketball team. The “Big Green” aren’t set to compete in the famous tournament, but they did vote on March 5 to create the first college sports union, which was certified on March…
These are not the greatest times for university faculty and nonacademic staff. Falling enrollments have squeezed budgets at many schools, leading to small or even non-existent salary increases during a period of enhanced inflation. The salary surveys of the American…
One of the big kerfuffles in women’s sports right now is only tangentially about sports. It’s mostly about race. It involves, also tangentially, Caitlin Clark, the sharpshooting basketball phenom for the University of Iowa who is tearing through college records…
I would rather not have another national conversation about race in America. But if we must, can we at least not have the same conversation about race in America? Since the Supreme Court told Harvard that it can no longer…
The first 24 years of the 21st century have been the era of Woke Supremacy in our institutions of higher learning. Universities have downplayed traditional academic standards and expectations while becoming centers for promoting ideologies centered around combatting perceived injustices,…
Like many others, I have long sensed that the so-called best and most prestigious American universities were actually very poor at maintaining a campus environment that upholds the free expression of ideas, basic First Amendment protections, etc. But after researching…
Most conservatives are well aware that American institutions of higher learning tend to be hopelessly woke. They not only attract the kinds of students who have been indoctrinated into the cult but prefer them to the normal individuals who find…
The evidence is undisputable that American higher education is in trouble. Enrollments are down. Costs of educating students are much higher than in other industrialized democracies. Employers frequently complain that their new college hires are inadequately prepared. Public confidence in…
Conservatives hailed the Supreme Court’s decision in early June to overturn affirmative action as a win for meritocracy and high schoolers knee-deep in college admissions. But over a month after the ruling, most education experts say it was a “rhetorical”…
