Tag: Colleges and Universities

FILE - In this Aug. 30, 2012, file photo, a tour group walks through the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. Word of an August 2017 Justice Department inquiry into how race factors into admissions at Harvard University has left top-tier colleges bracing for scrutiny of practices that have boosted diversity levels to new highs. While they keep their selection formulas under wraps, Ivy League colleges defend race-conscious approaches that contributed to a 17 percent increase in nonwhite students over a recent five-year span.

DOJ sides with student group saying Harvard University has anti-Asian-American admission policies

Kelly Cohen · August 30, 2018 2:00 pm

Red Alert Politics

Georgetown’s new LGBTQ living space is good for the Catholic Church

William Nardi · August 29, 2018 2:00 pm

Red Alert Politics

University forms ‘feminist fight club’ to fight the patriarchy

John Patrick · August 29, 2018 4:00 am

Is College Worth It?

Peter McPherson, Philip Trostel · August 28, 2018 9:00 am

Ohio State University football coach Urban Meyer makes a statement during a press conference in Columbus, Ohio, Aug. 22, 2018.

Ohio State’s botched handling of Urban Meyer leaves everyone mad

Noah Niederhoffer · August 27, 2018 7:02 pm

Students don’t care about pay when they pick their majors

Brendan Pringle · August 27, 2018 4:56 pm

Families and students walk in front of Old Main along the University of Arizona Mall the week before classes start, Friday, in Tucson, Ariz.

University of Arizona accepted $458K from eugenics fund

Associated Press · August 25, 2018 11:20 pm

N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued an executive order Monday banning state employees from using taxpayer funds to travel to North Carolina on nonessential work.

Andrew Cuomo’s free-college program rejected 70 percent of applicants

John Patrick · August 25, 2018 8:00 pm

FILE - In this March 2, 2017, file photo, Middlebury College students turn their backs to Charles Murray, unseen, during his lecture in Middlebury, Vt. Hundreds of students protested his lecture, forcing the college to move his talk to an undisclosed campus location from which it was live-streamed to the original venue. Since the beginning of 2016, more than two dozen campus speeches have been derailed amid controversy, according to the Foundation For Individual Rights In Education, a group that monitors free speech on campuses.

Beltway Confidential

A crossroads for colleges: ‘The Diversity Delusion’ by Heather Mac Donald

Cole Carnick · August 25, 2018 4:00 am

Hurtful Literal Existences

The Scrapbook · August 24, 2018 8:03 am

The Fix NICS Act was added to the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act despite efforts to separate the two by Democrats. (AP Photo/Al Behrman, File)

Professor threatens students who want to legally carry concealed weapons in class

Peter Van Voorhis · August 23, 2018 6:14 pm

Red Alert Politics

The repulsiveness of Ivy League liberalism

Akhil Rajasekar · August 23, 2018 12:30 pm