We are concerned by research showing that over the past 40 years the bulk of university budget increases have not gone to teaching and learning, but to administration.
Fear, intimidation, and uniformity are usurping the free, robust inquiry and debate that is the lifeblood of a genuine institution of higher learning, undermining both academic truth-seeking and democracy, which depends on an informed citizenry.
Such a bold proclamation would surely make news, would get the universities’ attention, and, just possibly, might prod a movement to restore the academic freedom on which America’s intellectual and political progress depend.
The Framers of the Constitution knew well the tendency of officeholders to attempt to encroach on the rights of the other branches.
Seventy-five percent of respondents declared college simply unaffordable.
We could come again to understand why the future of our democracy depends on properly celebrating the Fourth of July.
This is not their fault. U.S. Department of Education statistics show that, today, roughly two out of every three college students graduate without ever having taken even one course in American government.
In doing so, the Court has failed in its fundamental responsibility to interpret the Constitution in an honest, nonpartisan manner.
How have universities, whose defining mission requires that students examine some thoughts and projects that might prove to be unsettling, become such havens of monochrome thinking?
...there are today roughly seven million borrowers who are in default on their student loans, which total approximately $99 billion. A study by the New America Foundation finds that the average amount of each defaulted loan is $14,000...
Those alarmed over growing federal encroachment on the states and their citizens found a plethora of reasons to condemn Chief Justice John Roberts's 2012 opinion upholding Obamacare. Less noticed was Roberts's practical roadmap for future state resistance to federal overreach.
One can only hope that the evidence provided by Campos, Ginsberg, and others will drive a stake through the heart of the 'funding-cuts-made-us-raise-tuitions' myth. But don’t count on that happening just yet.