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 Walter V. Wendler In Texas 52.2% of the college students initially enrolled in 2009 had graduated with a bachelor’s degree by the year 2015, according to the most recent data available at the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems Information Center. I bet 100% of those enrollees intended to graduate when they signed […]
West Texas A&M University had its summer graduation last week, as did many universities around the nation. People are always willing to give advice to recent graduates, and I am no exception. Hold on to your hat. Don’t delay paying off student loans. Three of four graduates have educational debt and repayment should begin the […]
By Vic Brown Over the coming two weeks, first year students will be eagerly moving into dormitories across the country. Many of them have been recruited as part of their college’s efforts to attract a diverse student body, which they say will enhance the educational experience of all of their students. However, the admissions mechanisms […]
More and more, on any number of prestigious campuses, education may matter less than re-education: that’s to say, the process of turning freshman bumpkins into fully woke critics of a social order it’s essential to understand as racist, misogynist, non-diverse, elitist, and all that bad stuff. Behold the First-Year Experience, an indoctrination program spreading across […]
From www.goacta.org (originally in the Colorado Springs Gazette): By Dr. Donald W. Sweeting and Dr. Michael Poliakoff A powerful threat to intellectual and religious liberty is afoot. In a region embracing 19 states, including Colorado, colleges and universities are under the authority of a federally empowered agency that recently issued a draft protocol, giving itself the prerogative […]
(From campusreform.org): By Celine Ryan A new report based on salary data from the 2017-2018 academic year reveals that professors of “Area, Ethnic, Cultural, Gender, and Group Studies” earn almost $12,000 more than the average professor, overall. Notably, professors of subjects like Gender and Ethnic Studies also made about $15,000 more per year than their counterparts […]
By Mark Bauerlein While we admire Jordan Peterson for his courage under fire and insistence on empirical evidence against identity politics, a correction is in order. In numerous interviews, Dr. Peterson denounces cultural Marxism for providing intellectual cover to junior totalitarians who have come to power on college campuses, in human resources offices, and in […]
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 […]
