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
Some argue that federalism—the distribution of powers and duties between the states and the federal government, as codified in the U.S. Constitution’s Tenth Amendment—is dead. Regarding higher education, they may have a point.
If adjuncts are now so prevalent on campus, should not more care be taken in the hiring and retention process?
William Murchison shares his thoughts on efforts to eliminate tenure in Missouri and Iowa.
Philanthropic gifts to support higher education shouldn’t be controversial, but “progressives” who hate the Koch brothers for their advocacy of limited government simply cannot refrain from protesting anything that they do.
In 2017, beware of campus censorship from all directions—Left, Right, and from the government.
One idea that should have washed away in last November’s electoral tempest is “free”—or, more accurately, “taxpayer funded”—college tuition. Yet last week, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a proposal to subsidize tuition for postsecondary students.
Happy New Year! It’s time to get serious about rising costs and sinking performance at the places young people go to get their minds — or whatever — trained and shaped up. There’s plenty to do before it’s January 1 again.
Chicago wants to have its moral and cultural relativism and eat them too. Nowhere in its defense of academic freedom will you find the word, “truth,” either in upper- or lower-case.
In sum, think of these colleges and universities as finishing schools for those bent on spending their lives competing in the Sensitivity Sweepstakes.
We are now witnessing a large and increasing number of colleges and universities declaring their campuses to be sanctuary campuses. What is a sanctuary campus?
