Higher Education

Who’s Violating Campus Free Speech? Follow The Money

Free speech, though under assault on a growing number of campuses, is still deemed a paramount feature of American democracy by most Americans--certainly those who received their college educations years earlier. But Americans’ devotion to the First Amendment can be expected only to weaken annually if we continue to graduate college students reared in the new regime of intolerance establishing ever-more beachheads on our campuses.

April 3, 2017

Higher Education

The Latest–And Surprising–Victims of the Student-Loan Debt Crisis: Older Americans

The data reveal that older Americans with “outstanding student loans are more likely than those without outstanding student loans to report that they have skipped necessary health care needs such as prescription medicines, doctors’ visits, and dental care because they could not afford it." This increased burden on older Americans has caused them to tap savings that were being safeguarded for their retirement years. 

March 24, 2017

Higher Education

It’s High Time To End Right Supremacy

But there’s another, fundamental step we need to take if we are truly serious about eradicating all distinctions among human beings: Dexterity equality.

March 17, 2017

Higher Education

How To Reduce College Costs

The solution to administrative bloat in public universities is less a challenge to the intellect than to the political will and courage of university trustees, chancellors, presidents, and state legislators.

February 28, 2017

Higher Education

No College For Old Administrators: Time For Donors/Alums To Defend The Freedom To Learn

Here, then, straight from the horse’s mouth, is the sorry state of American higher education today. Current administrators, we have learned, cannot to be counted on to right the ship.

February 25, 2017

Higher Education

Report: Obama Department Of Education Drastically Underestimated Student-Loan Debt

In short, things are getting worse on the student loan front—and have been for some time; something we would and should have known earlier, had it not been for the federal government’s “technical programming error.” For my part, I will not question the veracity of the prior administration’s claims. I will wait patiently for the Department of Education to heed the GAO’s admonition to clean up its books.

January 31, 2017

Higher Education

“Beach Books,” Liberal Education, and Moral Relativism

2017 08 Speech NatlAssocScholars Lindsay by texaspolicy on Scribd

January 21, 2017

Higher Education

To Solidify Higher-Education Finance, Return Power And Money To The States

American higher education is in a crunch and the demise of federalism has contributed to this dilemma.

January 19, 2017

Higher Education

Sad To Say, The ‘Chicago Principles’ Defending Academic Freedom Do Not Go Far Enough

It is only in the light of the simple superiority of truth-seeking and the indispensability of freedom for such seeking that the possibilities and limitations of our other freedoms—moral, political, and economic—come into proper focus.

December 30, 2016

Higher Education

A Marxist Education in ‘Hypersensitivity’ As A Cause Of Violence on American Campuses

The deepest effect of the Left’s success at transforming teaching and learning into consciousness raising and hypersensitivity is missed if we dismiss it as merely in the service of graduating a fresh batch of “little snowflakes” every May.

December 27, 2016

Higher Education

Wise Beyond Their Years: Student Newspaper Slams Princeton’s “Politicized Curriculum” Proposal

Over the course of the last few years, Americans have watched with interest and dismay as a growing number of their higher education institutions have descended into censorship and intolerance. From “safe spaces” to “trigger warnings” to “micro-aggressions,” our universities appear to be striving to become the least tolerant of our institutions.

November 29, 2016

Higher Education

The University Of California’s Censor In Sheep’s Clothing

 Give them a dog-and-pony show. Praise free speech at the same time that you seek to justify learning-killing restrictions on same.

November 2, 2016