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Is DEI doomed?
University DEI programs are losing popularity on campus and off.
Joanne Jacobs
Dec 7, 20242 min read
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'Woke' (or wokeish) courses are cut from core list at Florida universities
Courses that teach identity politics or systemic racism will be electives -- not core courses -- at Florida's state universities.
Joanne Jacobs
Dec 4, 20241 min read
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The Trump 'reckoning' for higher ed: No more easy money
Colleges aren't going to like Trump's higher education agenda , predicts economist Richard K. Vedder. He's the author of the forthcoming...
Joanne Jacobs
Dec 4, 20242 min read
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A black professor leaves academia: 'Critical thinking became critical feeling'
Erec Smith, formerly a professor of rhetoric and composition, got tired of colleagues calling him "inauthentically Black" because he...
Joanne Jacobs
Nov 26, 20241 min read
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Free thinking at UATX
60 Minutes has a very positive story on the University of Austin , which admitted its first class of students this fall. Students are...
Joanne Jacobs
Nov 26, 20241 min read
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College students are young adults - not fragile children
Stop babying college students and teach them that they're living in a diverse, pluralistic democracy.
Joanne Jacobs
Nov 24, 20242 min read
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Yale liberals: We envy conservatives because they're learning to think and we're not
Yale liberals say they envy conservative classmates who are learning how to understand other points of view and argue for their ideas.
Joanne Jacobs
Nov 23, 20242 min read
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Edumania! McMahon is tapped as education secretary
Pro wrestling executive and former Small Business Administration chief Linda McMahon will be the next and possibly last Education...
Joanne Jacobs
Nov 21, 20242 min read
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Ivy crazy: Should colleges make merit broader -- and fuzzier?
" The meritocracy isn't working ," writes David Brooks in The Atlantic . Ambitious parents "ferry their kids from one supervised...
Joanne Jacobs
Nov 19, 20242 min read
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Is everybody cheating?
Cheating is common for college students. Many think A is the only acceptable grade.
Joanne Jacobs
Nov 14, 20242 min read
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College presidents, it's going to be a bumpy ride
Trump is likely to go after elite colleges and favor vocational education.
Joanne Jacobs
Nov 12, 20241 min read
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What do you want to do when you grow up?
Working-class Americans voted to send Donald Trump back into the White House: He ran strongly with people without college degrees ,...
Joanne Jacobs
Nov 7, 20242 min read
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Teaching fragility
Students stressed by the election results can skip classes tomorrow at their elite New York City private school, reports Christopher Maag...
Joanne Jacobs
Nov 5, 20242 min read
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More high schoolers earn more college credits -- but will they complete a degree?
Earning dual-enrollment credits may not help students complete a college degree.
Joanne Jacobs
Nov 4, 20242 min read
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Who's truly disadvantaged? Look at single parenting, not race or poverty
Growing up in a single-parent family is a huge disadvantage in life, writes Fordham's Michael Petrilli in Forbes. If racial preferences...
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 25, 20242 min read
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Disadvantaged? Really???
Vice President Kamala Harris, the daughter of two university professors, was admitted to Hastings law school via a program for applicants...
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 24, 20242 min read
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'Free college' isn't enough to raise success rates for low-income students
"Free" tuition has boosted two-year graduation rates in Tennessee, but low-income students need more help to complete a degree.
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 19, 20242 min read
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Why did black enrollment fall at Wellesley, but not at Yale?
"Holistic" admissions to selective colleges is a "black box," writes Rick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute. Nobody knows...
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 18, 20242 min read
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DEI at U of Michigan: 'rote incantations of a state religion'
University of Michigan's DEI program has created a "culture of grievance," not inclusion, say students and professors.
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 17, 20242 min read
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She can't read or write, but she made the honor roll and got into UConn
A former special-ed student is suing Hartford Public Schools because she wasn't taught to read or write.
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 5, 20242 min read
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