What Do Employers Want?
…many forms is essential to having upward mobility in employment. However, in a changed world, those things alone do not maximize opportunity. On a personal note, my brother, retired Chief…
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One-Stop College Shopping (Sort of)
…acknowledges that the U-Can initiative stems partly from government pressure. But Hope Williams, president of an equivalent state organization, North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities, says that the chief factor…
Marx, Mao, and Mischief at UNC
…Issues” served as the chief editors of the journal, including Harry Magdoff. Magdoff openly declared the publication’s Maoist tendencies in an interview in the May 1999 issue: “Oh, there was…
Only Rubber-Stamps and Jellyfish Need Apply
…history. It figures in one of Chief Justice Marshall’s most famous cases, Dartmouth College v. Woodward, where the Court rebuffed an effort by the State of New Hampshire to exert…
Evil Republicans 101
…partisan cynicism and only occasionally making concessions to the apparently toxic Washington culture. In Strange’s reading selections, the chief tool that cynical Republicans have used to halt progress is the…
Why We Need the Liberal Arts
…the cultivation of which Agresto sees as a chief goal of liberal education. “To discover what makes us human,” he says, “is the highest and most philosophical aspect of wondering.”…
Did You Know? Students, Faculty Punished for Speech on Social Media
…of retired St. Louis police chief David Dorn, violated university policies prohibiting “threats/intimidation” and “bias and/or hate crimes.” Tong has been placed on probation and will not be allowed to…
Leaving the Blight of Higher Education: Part I–Farewell, Students
…“diversity” and preach “tolerance” at the top of their lungs, they in fact demonstrate monolithic bigotry and homogeneous narrow-mindedness. I begin, however, with students, or rather with the accoutrement, apparently…
The Feminist Retreat
…to promote activism to counter it. The book fails in the second part—its analysis of “why,” which seems to me to be the chief justification for academic women’s studies. Women’s…
Rescuing “Virtue and Talents” Amidst the War on Tests
…of race-conscious admissions fell short of achieving the goal of racial diversity. In spite of the broad-spectrum implementation of race-based affirmation action, the share of URMs at elite institutions has…