Texas universities-and American universities generally-falter at civic education. To correct this, Texas should restore the intentions undergirding its 1955 law requiring all public college and university students to complete two American history courses.
Yale Finally Says the Quiet Part Out Loud
Yale’s Committee on “Trust in Higher Education” just released what higher-education reformers have to view as a remarkable document. It addresses the ongoing erosion of public trust in America’s universities. In doing so, it owns up to the self-censorship, extreme faculty political homogeneity, grade hyperinflation, administrative bloat, and the opaqueness of “holistic” admissions. For an...