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Harvard, Yale, Princeton, blah, blah, blah — our national conversation about higher education is dominated by the supposedly elite schools, and...
Traditionally, it has taken four years to earn a college degree — but what is so important about that number? Lots of students actually hang around...
Bates College is a prestigious liberal arts college in Maine. Years ago, its leadership decided to go woke with a panoply of programs and policies to...
Many of our colleges and universities have figured out that they can attract and keep more students (and their money) by offering them more...
Many colleges and universities now require incoming students (called freshmen in the old days) to take a course on what being in college entails — a...
There is nothing wrong with college programs that allow students to study abroad, but in recent years, programs that connect with Chinese universities...
In 2018, the Supreme Court decided Janus v. AFSCME, in which the plaintiff, a governmental worker in Illinois, objected to being compelled to pay...
Many college professors favor progressive policies, and a number of them don’t hesitate to use the classroom to push their views. For evidence of...
As our colleges and universities have watered down their content over the years to make room for fluff courses and politicized junk, foreign language...
The traditional academic science Ph.D. has been in decline for years. Some programs have been infected with DEI madness, and many graduates have...
Even in red states, leftists have exerted their malign influence over higher education. The once-formidable University of Texas has long suffered...
Many American students are lured into graduate degree programs with the notion that more education always pays off. This or that degree, it’s often...
In today’s Martin Center article, Christopher Schilling explains that, though North Carolina “requires Holocaust education for public school...
For many years, a large number of Americans had a positive view of our higher education system. Then, due largely to federal meddling, the system...
A good trend in higher education in recent years is the rise of programs to teach students about civics. Long ignored in schools and colleges (while...
In a long overdue counterattack against “progressive” thought control in our colleges and universities, some schools have established programs for...
Remember taking the SAT or the ACT when you were in high school — the tests that colleges used to help decide if you had the academic preparation...
It was not so long ago that most Americans thought that college was for the smart kids and, well, too bad for those who weren’t college material....
One of the better public policy moves in recent decades has been Education Savings Accounts (ESAs), which allow parents to save in tax-free accounts...
Elise Stefanik is a Harvard graduate who represents an upstate New York district in Congress. She took the lead in questioning three university...
With so many young (and clueless) Americans clamoring for socialism, it’s worth asking about the likely consequences of such a move. What happens to...
Leftists would have us believe that the Founders were a bunch of greedy white racists whose only concern in establishing the United States was to...
In a few states, schools and programs focused on teaching civics have arisen, giving students an alternative to the steady drumbeat of America-bashing...
Many who reject progressive ideology embrace the concept of great books education as a counter to the leftist project of getting students to hate our...
Most students these days are tempted to use artificial intelligence to do their work for them, merely cutting and pasting what they see on their...
When it was announced a few years ago that the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was going to create the School for Civic Life and...
There’s an old saying that goes: “an idea so ridiculous only an academic could believe it.” It seems to apply frequently as more professors sink...
Several foreign governments have invested heavily in our colleges and universities, intent on influencing students and the public in general into...
When the Supreme Court ruled against race-based college admissions in 2023, Chief Justice Roberts wrote that it was time to eliminate racial...
“Disparate impact” is the idea that when normal, rational processes of hiring and promotion don’t yield exactly the right percentages of people...
For some absurd reason, Americans came to believe that college education was for the smart kids and occupational training for the rest. Colleges...
Not so very long ago — say, the 1960s — colleges and universities ran pretty lean operations. Professors devoted most of their time to teaching,...
Many progressive academics are forever griping about unjust privileges and hierarchies in society — bad stuff that they’re out to change! Ah, but...
So many academic fields have become saturated with leftist indoctrination, with professors presenting questionable if not downright ridiculous notions...
The left’s “long march” through our institutions has had dramatic effects in higher education, with many once serious fields of study reduced to...
American college students have the right to speak. Sometimes that right comes under attack, as with the infamous speech codes, but those codes have...
Accreditation supposedly ensures that colleges and universities are delivering a sound education to their students. It actually hasn’t done that for...
Some of America’s most prestigious colleges and universities seem to be waking up to the fact that they have drifted far away from their educational...
The leaders of many American colleges and universities have long shown that they have no backbone when it comes to opposing radical elements who want...
The country has a number of schools of public policy, which supposedly graduate savvy young men and women who will bring expertise to government...
For decades, our higher education leaders have generally ignored the criticisms coming from the right. They were certain that our colleges and...
Amid the pomp and circumstance of college graduation ceremonies, students have to sit through a speech. These days, the person giving that speech is...
English departments across the land have fallen into a swamp of ideological conformity. Moreover, lots of professors have decided to stop teaching...
Artificial intelligence has many beneficial uses, but at least one terrible downside is that it makes cheating easier for students who merely want a...
These days, numerous leftist intellectuals ply their trade in the following manner: They hunt for anything that might be construed to show that their...
What does an army do when it’s badly outnumbered? Answer: Choose the battlefield carefully to offset the enemy’s strength. In today’s Martin...
In his latest Bastiat’s Window post, Bob Graboyes looks at the infamous Tuskegee Experiment, where government officials treated individuals as...
Among the many institutions that have been captured during the left’s “long march” is the American Bar Association (ABA), which now is more...
As the Martin Center has been arguing for its entire existence, American higher ed costs far too much and delivers far too little benefit — thanks...
F. A. Hayek famously argued that among the defects of totalitarian government is that the worst people tend to seek and get the reins of power. In...
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