Joanne Jacobs
71% of students say they'd report a professor for 'wrongthink'
College students are unwilling to tolerate professors with "offensive" opinions.
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Joanne Jacobs
Mar 282 min read
Virtue signaling turns nasty at Stanford, silly at Vanderbilt
"Aggression and abuse" are now "an accepted part of campus activism," writes Theo Baker, a Stanford sophomore, in The Atlantic. When...
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 252 min read
College students aren't all that smart: IQ average falls to 102
The average college student has average intelligence, concludes a meta-analysis by Canadian researchers, writes Ross Pomeroy on Big...
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 21, 20232 min read
When inclusion isn't enough: The new buzzword is 'belonging'
"Belonging" has joined "diversity," "equity" and "inclusion" (and sometimes "access") as the newest buzzword on college campuses, writes ...
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 14, 20232 min read
College kids turn away from free speech, tolerance for dissent
"Young Americans are turning their backs on basic American principles of free speech, tolerance and due process," writes Brad Polumbo of...
Joanne Jacobs
Jul 30, 20232 min read
Teaching fragility: 1/5 of undergrads are 'disabled'
Colleges are disabling students, teaching them that they need not show up in class, complete assignments on time or give an oral...
Joanne Jacobs
Jul 22, 20233 min read
Malice: STEM students mock trans survey
Asked their gender, race and disability status, a surprising number of engineering and computer science students identify as military...
Joanne Jacobs
Jul 15, 20232 min read
'The Runaway Bunny' goes to college
A "dramatic mental health crisis" is challenging colleges and universities, writes Mary Dana Hinton, president of Hollins University, on...
Joanne Jacobs
Nov 28, 20222 min read
College students don't study, say classes are too hard
Most four-year college students don't spend much time studying, yet complain that classes are too hard, according to a recent survey by...
Joanne Jacobs
Nov 11, 20221 min read
College students lost learning too, but how much?
Universities aren't even trying to figure out how much students lost when classes went remote, writes Jonathan Zimmerman, who teaches...
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 13, 20222 min read
'Student-centered learning' means less learning
Student-centered learning is supposed to be inclusive, democratic, personalized and accessible, write Rebekah Wanic and Nina Powell in...
Joanne Jacobs
Sep 4, 20222 min read
It's college, not kindergarten
Of the three million students who will start college this fall, one million won't make it through the first year on campus or won't...
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