Draining The Higher-Ed Swamp: The Case For Closing Evergreen State College
Are taxpayers required to subsidize the destruction of their country and way of life?
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Thomas K. Lindsay, Ph.D., Editor in Chief and Director, Center for Higher Education, Texas Public Policy Foundation
Updates
Professors’ Suit to Block Concealed Carry on University of Texas Campuses Tossed Out
It is a measure of how entitled many college professors think themselves that a group of professors at the University of Texas at Austin, annoyed that the state legislature ignored their protests, filed a lawsuit to express their disapproval of a law.
The Pseudo-Science of Micro-Aggression
In the absence of clear and distinct criteria for discriminating a micro-aggression from the ordinary slips and indecencies of modern life, all we are left with to gauge the event of a micro-aggression is the psychic condition of the one who has been micro-aggressed.
Another Leftist Professor Writes a “History” to Distort and Discredit Conservatism
Many leftist intellectuals “argue” this way: They dig into the past and purport to find that one of their right-wing opponents had some unsavory connection, therefore his ideas must be bad – and since the right has embraced those ideas, it is also bad.
To Restore Campus Free Speech Nationwide, Secretary DeVos Should Look to Wisconsin
Last week, the Wisconsin state assembly stepped up to defend free speech at its state colleges and universities. Its “Campus Free Speech Act” calls for the suspension or even expulsion of students who disrupt approved campus speakers.
Why Are College Degrees Falling in Value?
After decades of steady increase, the numbers of young Americans who enroll in some postsecondary educational program has started to fall. Many schools are desperate to keep their numbers up, but keep falling short. The reason for this change is that the perceived value of college is declining.
The Closing of the American Mind: 30 Years Ago
No one, least of all Bloom himself, expected it to attract much attention. But that it did – and more. For it became a phenomenon. In fact, for nearly a year, it was the talk of the land, and it sold like hotcakes. Bloom, who had always lived beyond his means, soon found it almost impossible to do so.
Childhood’s End in Chicago
Starting with the class of 2020, students will have to provide evidence of college admission, military enlistment, a job offer or evidence of acceptance into a job training program, or “acceptance into a ‘gap year’ program” to receive a high school diploma.
Community Colleges Are Not the Minor Leagues Anymore
It’s time to reverse the current policies that result in providing the lowest levels of taxpayer support to institutions that enroll the highest percentage of low-income, nontraditional and minority students.
At Texas State Technical College, the Job Market Helps Determine What Is Taught
The success of TSTC and TSTC graduates reminds those of us who follow higher education that market-based reforms can be introduced, and succeed, anywhere, not just at for-profit institutions.
