In an earlier millennium, yours truly undertook graduate studies in history and persisted a couple of years before getting cold feet. Some new PhDs could not find academic positions; some … Continue reading “Are English Departments Really Dying?”
That free speech on college campuses is under attack cannot be denied. We find invited speakers being disinvited or shouted down, “bias incident” reporting systems that encourage students to complain … Continue reading “Can the Feds Do Something to Protect Campus Free Speech? Should They?”
During Barack Obama’s administration, the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights was staffed with “progressives” who were intent on pushing federal policy in ways that advanced their visions of what … Continue reading “Why the Woman Appointed to a Top Education Department Post Is Under Fire”
Amherst College is one of America’s most prestigious schools. It is run by people with lustrous liberal credentials, eager to show their fidelity to progressive causes, including the battle against … Continue reading “Elite College, Caught in Title IX Web, Goes to Trial Against Wronged Student”
Nowhere is the adage “personnel is policy” truer than in the federal education bureaucracy. With nothing more than a few Dear Colleague letters meant to provide “guidance” to nearly all … Continue reading “Sweeping Change at the Office for Civil Rights Is Imperative”
The final year of the U.S. Department of Education in the Obama administration is noteworthy for all its carnage. In September, the large ITT Tech chain of schools, which had … Continue reading “The Department of Education De-Accredits an Accreditor”
Foremost among the criticisms of the way our administrative law system works is that bureaucratic agencies get to act as lawmaker, judge, jury, and executioner all rolled into one. That … Continue reading “The Education Department Gives ITT the Death Penalty”