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 Mark Bauerlein The Modern Language Association just reported an astonishing statistic. From 2013 to 2016, colleges and universities in the United States shut down fully 651 programs or offerings in foreign language fields. Students just aren’t enrolling in language classes (the major in all foreign languages combined is down more than 20 percent since […]
By Walter Wendler As we begin 2019, anyone involved in higher education, student or family member, spouse or friend, high school principal or daycare worker, instructor or president, knows things are changing at universities. Whether a public or private, for-profit or not-for-profit, online or on-campus, universities are in flux. And this broth of changing forces […]
By George Leef Nearly all of America’s premier colleges and universities grandly state that they are dedicated to “diversity and inclusiveness.” They have established administrative bureaucracies bearing names like “Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion,” and pride themselves on their success in recruiting students from groups that have been historically “underserved” by higher education. How […]
(From www.forbes.com): By Tom Lindsay During my years as a college administrator and faculty member, I was saddened each winter break to learn just how many of our seniors were not on target for graduation in the spring. This is, unfortunately, a fairly a common problem. Complete College America reports that the average time to a bachelor’s […]
By Ronald Trowbridge I have never written a piece like this one—about “my sense is.” I have published hundreds of articles on political thought, and my format has always been: state a thesis, then let the facts do the talking. I have been a student of cerebral political thought since my junior year in college, […]
By George Leef One of the biggest stories of 2018 in the academic world was the success that three academics had in getting supposedly reputable journals to publish articles they had concocted from nothing – pure hoaxes. The hoax papers made a strong case that the publication standards in the fields covered (such as gender […]
By Mark Bauerlein It was quite an embarrassment. A team of, well, we’ll call them watchdogs, sent bogus research papers to social science journals for publication and received several acceptances. (The authors detail their project here. One of the papers, “The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct,” was taken by the journal Cogent Social Sciences. […]
(From forbes.com): By Tom Lindsay In 2011, then-Texas Governor Rick Perry called on the Lone Star State’s public four-year universities to craft affordable bachelor’s degrees, what the Governor labeled at the time, “$10,000 degrees.” Texas universities have risen to the challenge. In late 2013, the first Texas Affordable Baccalaureate Degree was launched by Texas A&M-Commerce and […]
By Ronald Trowbridge The Office of Civil Rights within the Department of Education has issued a new policy for public scrutiny on adjudication of sexual assault. That policy incorporated the September decision of the federal 6th Circuit Court of Appeals’ Roe v. Baum decision that required that students accused of sexual assault be permitted-cross examination […]
By George Leef Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos stirred up a hornets’ nest when she recently proposed a substantial revision of the rules for Title IX cases. Under the rules imposed during the Obama administration, colleges and universities were expected to follow procedures that stacked the deck against students accused of sexual assault or harassment. […]
