As first-year students arrive this week at Baruch College, they are getting their first lesson-in indoctrination, not orientation. Baruch’s mandatory freshman reading program leaves them little room to disagree with the views of an...
In Dimitri Vassilaros’ excellent column about Ward Churchill, the University of Colorado professor who compared the victims of 9/11 to Nazis, he posed the question, “How many more little Ward Churchills are there in...
Grade inflation has been in the public’s eye for a long time. The first of many empirical studies of the problem in American higher education reported an average increase of 0.404 points in grade-point...
Tension over the election of alumni trustees at Dartmouth College continues to reverberate. Alumni are scheduled to vote by the end of October on a plan to overhaul alumni governance. The new alumni constitution...
Academic freedom is not freedom from criticism or freedom from responsibility. That is what the American Council of Trustees and Alumni has been saying since well before Sept. 11. But you wouldn’t know that...
Arizona’s college classrooms will be dressed in patriotic garb by this time next year, sporting U.S. flags and copies of the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Charles Mitchell of the American Council of Trustees...
Colleges and universities will start their fall semester soon. You might be interested in what parents’ and taxpayers’ money is going for at far too many “institutions of higher learning.” At Occidental College in...
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