On the Campus
Frankly, I don’t buy this: Overall, the United States needs to increase the proportion of the population with a college education by 4.2 percent annually to meet the demands of an increasingly global economy, which will require 60 percent of the work force to have degrees by 2020, according to Jeffrey Stanley, associate vice president…
After listing a number of the ways in which college students are catered to, Jonah Goldberg gives the lesson (unfortunately, subscription required): But even as this sensitivity is being cultivated, the student is stuffed to the gills with cant about the corruption of “the system,” i.e., the real world just outside the gates of his…
Well, there’s no denying that this is not a desirable occurrence: Take former doctoral student Marcel Benz, for example. In 2001, he had to throw out a year’s experimentation because there was no way to control temperature and humidity in the building. The impact of Benz’s experience reached far beyond his lab, because a private…
Let’s be honest: We’ve all realized that so-called “affirmative action” was never meant to be an objectively applied tool ensuring proportional representation; it’s always been a weapon for use against white men. But it’s still going to be interesting to watch the intellectual contortions as elite society’s war on masculinity tips scales in the other…
Speaking of public sector investments on your dime, Rhode Island’s Board of Governors for Higher Education is looking for a 22% increase in the public funds that they receive. Of course, part of the plan might be to hit lawmakers with a large requested increase — requested as if absolutely essential, naturally — so as…
NYU history and education professor Jonathan Zimmerman strives mightily to square the liberal circle with the rigid hierarchical structure of higher education: Some of these people are great teachers, and others aren’t. But all of them are getting ripped off, driving from campus to campus and waiting — always waiting — for the full-time job…
Look, higher education is important to the state of Rhode Island, and it would be even more so if the state were institutionally capable of creating an environment that created jobs that would attract our highly educated temporary visitors to stay in the state. But colleges and universities should start considering how their mixed message…
By way of following up my post about the gay-rights sit-in at the University of Rhode Island, I note that the Providence Journal has reported the actions of the student arrested related to anti-gay slurs: An anti-gay threat written on a dry-erase board on the door of a University of Rhode Island dorm room has…
Back when I was a student at the University of Rhode Island, campus activists misinterpreted (deliberately, I’d say) a cartoon published in the student paper, The Good 5¢ Cigar, with racial undertones and secured funding for additional positions and student groups for minorities. At least the hook, in that case, came from an official publication,…
Anchor Rising commenter mangeek sends along this Huffington Post post on student loans: A strange milestone was marked this week in the history of student loans. The total balance of all outstanding US student loans (given as $730 billion in DIY U, based on OMB estimates) is now estimated by Mark Kantrowitz of Finaid.org at…
