Today’s colleges seem to be dominated by identity politics and progressive calls for more “diversity” and heightened attention to sustainability efforts. Surveys show that the already strong leftish orientation among faculty has strengthened over...
A leading higher education trade journal, Inside Higher Ed, recently profiled Claflin University, one of eight historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in South Carolina. Under the leadership of former president Henry Tisdale from...
National Review, October 9, 2019 — “Though the lot of church-related colleges is hard nowadays,” Russell Kirk wrote in National Review in 1971, “one promising new liberal-arts college (most decidedly Catholic) has appeared: Thomas Aquinas College,...
There is a crisis of civic education in America today. For the last 20 years, study after study has shown that most Americans lack a basic understanding of the country’s history and political institutions....
A recent national survey shows a lack of basic knowledge of U.S. history and civics among Americans, with a number of respondents not knowing the current Supreme Court Chief Justice, or thinking Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez...
Walking into a University of Colorado Boulder engineering class these days is a toss up — are you going to hear a lecture about complex math equations and scientific theories or find students in...
A planned lazy river intended for use by UCF student-athletes and deep-pocketed fans is the product of a “wrong-headed” race by universities to build extravagant facilities to gain prestige and woo recruits, critics say....
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