See Thru Edu is a project of the Texas Public Policy Foundation
Thomas K. Lindsay, Ph.D., Editor in Chief and Director, Center for Higher Education, Texas Public Policy Foundation
By George Leef A big legal test looms for racial preferences in admissions for colleges and universities. Harvard has been sued by the group Students for Fair Admissions, which alleges that the school discriminates against students of Asian ancestry. If you’re not familiar with the case, Terry Eastland of the Center for Equal Opportunity discusses […]
(From TheCollegeFix): By William Nardi A literature class at Davidson College this fall will use “contract grading,” allowing students to pick ahead of time their grade for the class and the workload they need to complete to earn it. The offer is posed by Professor Melissa Gonzalez for her Introduction to Spanish Literatures and Cultures course, […]
By George Leef One of the most deeply ingrained beliefs in Americans is that education is nearly always and without limit a good investment. That belief explains how the percentage of high school graduates who enroll in college kept steadily increasing from the end of World War II until just a few years ago, even […]
By William Murchison Now to return, repetitiously, to a well that needs visiting from time to time… This particular well, right in the middle of Higher Ed Land, has a noxious odor that draws one back, in dismay and curiosity. Is football or basketball success the chief aim, the be-all and end-all, of the academic […]
(From austriancenter.com): By Svetozar Pejovich It is arguable that the average American understands neither the theoretical basis of socialism nor the actual history of socialism. The purpose of this article is to identify two issues that should help to inform the median voter about some important differences between capitalism and socialism as well as between different […]
By George Leef Ever Since Bill Clinton announced in 1993 that he was determined to have a Cabinet that “looked like America,” the idea that it’s more important that every group be diverse – where diverse means a mixture of people from different racial backgrounds and roughly equal numbers of men and women – has […]
By John Carroll The student loan debt crisis seems intractable. Students can’t make payments and it’s likely the $1.5T balance will never be repaid. The debt is simply too big. To solve the problem, researchers at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College proposed a one-time student loan forgiveness program. The Education Department could simply […]
(From campusreform.org): By Toni Airaksinen An art education professor at the University of North Texas is urging his fellow educators to use social justice-themed art classes to fight “geometries of whiteness.” Tyson E. Lewis, who teaches classes on critical pedagogy and aesthetic theory, contributed a chapter on “Art Education and Whiteness as Style” for a new guide […]
By Karoline Ott Too many public universities continue to restrict campus free speech, and private universities are buckling under the pressure to fit in with this latest trend in higher education. Just last year, Middlebury came under fire when they re-evaluated their free speech policies after a visit from Charles Murray enraged leftist students, who […]
(From forbes.com): By Tom Lindsay In these pages, I recently chronicled the sad story of the sorry response by the CUNY Law School Dean to the “shout-down” of an invited campus speaker. At the time, all that I could hope was that CUNY represented an outlier rather than an indication of a rush toward intellectual suicide among […]
