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
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.
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.
The most striking thing about fixing American higher education is that the direct costs look surprisingly small. The major obstacles are political, not financial.
Dr. Tony Esolen argued for the hiring of more faithful Catholic faculty members. Providence’s faculty ran him off.
In making artistic greatness into a social matter, not a real or natural or objective matter, humanities professors killed one of the cardinal attractions of the discipline.
President Trump wants Americans to expand apprenticeships nationwide to draw people back into the workforce. It’s a worthy goal, especially if it means fewer college students.
Mills College, like many private universities in America, is having to make some budget cuts in order to stay afloat. The philosophy department will lose its only two professors, effectively getting rid of the major.
Campus protests are the new, fashionable zeitgeist. Protesters have become emboldened, with virtual impunity. We need only look at recent cases to see that the precedent for protest has been firmly established.
In an age when college kids are booing, shouting, rejecting, destroying, how about a change of scene to where young adults appreciate what they have?
“American universities seem committed to every kind of diversity except intellectual diversity. Conservative voices and views are being silenced entirely.” — Fareed Zakaria
