Fellow-to-faculty programs have seeded academia with activists.
Topic: College
How to Get More Conservatives in Academia
The politicization of the university is not only an obstacle for the Right but for academia itself. Schools’ “sectarian” reputation undermines trust among those who perceive them to be hostile to their views. More important, academia’s ideological tilt presents an intellectual problem, as it gives license to theory-laden interpretations of reality and declining rigor.
Federal Funding Shouldn’t Be Going to Woke University Programs
Congress can shut down extremist international studies centers with a pen stroke.
Only Congress and Trump Can Save College Sports
College sports once again face an existential turning point. It will result in either fortification or destruction of this uniquely American system that provides opportunity to hundreds of thousands of young people and intrinsically cultivates American values.
UConn Invites Trans People to Train Med Students in “Gender-Affirming Care”
The University of Connecticut Medical School is hosting transgender individuals as practice patients this month to train students in providing “gender-affirming” care.
Higher Education Is in Trouble
Among other things, schools should curtail DEI and stop taking political sides.
UCLA Is Still a Terror Campus
The pro-terrorist encampment remains subsidized by taxpayer money.
Time for College Officials to Get a Backbone on Free Speech
Their passivity before campus activists has stoked an atmosphere that invites mob violence, chaos, and disrespect for our nation’s foundational rights.
A Year After Hamas Assault, the Answer for Hateful College Protests: Book ’em
Since far too few professors are enforcing decent standards, outside speakers may need to fill the gap. Instead of whining that their work is too hard or yelling about places thousands of miles away, many students need to be told to grow up, suck it up, and be willing actually to learn rather than to let loose their ignorant ids.
College Professors Are Backing Trump
A group of university professors are circulating a petition and a statement among their colleagues to support the Republican ticket in the upcoming presidential election. The project is titled “Lesser Evil.”
Pro-Hamas Radicals Waste No Time Disrupting Campus as School Begins
As students return to campus, one thing is already clear: the Left’s radical pro-Hamas activists are back, determined to push their pro-terror agenda and disrupt campus life once more. On the first day of classes, leftist protesters rallied outside the residence of George Washington University President Ellen Granberg demanding the school “divest from Israel.”
The Affirmative Action Roots of Campus Antisemitism
Jewish liberals sowed the seeds when they betrayed their principles.
Columbia President Shafik Resigns Before Fall Protests Start
Columbia University is a sinking ship, and President Minouche Shafik is getting out while she still can.
Is DEI Losing Its Stranglehold on American Academia?
The DEI gravy train is losing traction at its strongest bastion: American universities. Even more than woke corporations, colleges – blessed by taxpayer support or private endowments – are a natural environment to unleash progressive social engineering on captive audiences. But the momentum is resoundingly against an enforced agenda
The Slow Death of a Christian College
Eastern Nazarene College (ENC) in Quincy, MA, is closing its doors after nearly 125 years of offering a Christian-based educationThe Board chose DEI and wokeness over the traditions of the rather strict Nazarene faith and tradition, and the decisions proved fatal for ENC.
Instead of Donating to Your Woke Alma Mater, Fund Classical K-12 Schools
For those who wish to further mankind’s happiness, there is an outstanding alternative to writing a check to rotted institutions of allegedly higher learning. The charter school movement represents the American desire for improvement at its finest.
Most Americans Say to Punish Students for Anti-Israel Encampments
Nearly three in four Americans want to see anti-Israel protesters punished for the encampments that they erected on campuses across the nation this spring, according to a new poll.
Why Universities Are Retreating from Culture Wars
The 10/7 firestorm made clear that Harvard needed to revise its approach to public statements, a member of the Institutional Voice Working Group told NR.
Leftist Colleges Tend to Produce Leftist Scientific Studies
Americans haven’t come to terms with their scientifically politicized reality.
We Should Worry About What Columbia Is Teaching Teachers, Too
A review of courses offered exposes an obsession with the same radical politics as those of the campus protesters.
The Anti-Americanism of Globalized Universities
U.S. universities used to admit students from overseas so they could learn about American values and the virtues of our political system and bring that knowledge back to their home countries. We were exporting democracy and freedom, one student at a time. It’s the other way around now.
Anti-Israel Protests Reward and Encourage Terrorism
The Western world — students included — should give the Palestinians some tough love.
Universities Breed Evil
By Dennis Prager: Universities have been morally and intellectually damaging for more than 50 years. How many young people return home after four years at college (let alone additional years in graduate school) a finer, kinder, more moral or intellectually more developed person? Let’s just say it’s rare.
The Disgrace and Fall of the American Elite Campus
These infantile campuses have a rendezvous with adult accountability, both public and governmental. And they won’t like what is coming.