Accreditation agencies have the responsibility of judging whether colleges are offering students a quality education. Since COVID-19, however, their biggest changes have been to dismiss concerns about short-changing students. This … Continue reading “Did You Know? Ed Dept. Punts on Accreditation Rules for Online Classes”
The turnabout in federal policy towards higher education has been dramatic. Back on September 7, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos announced that her department was rescinding the 2011 “Dear Colleague” … Continue reading “The Campus Free Speech Problem Worsens and Washington Finally Acts”
Academic freedom has long been a guiding principle for American colleges and universities: Neither faculty nor students should be told what to say or punished for saying whatever they think. … Continue reading “The Chinese Don’t Like Academic Freedom, So American Schools Should Avoid Their Confucius Institutes”
It is very rare for a federal agency to admit having made a mistake and rarer still for the secretary of a cabinet department to announce a U-turn in policy … Continue reading “Secretary DeVos Begins to Rectify the Title IX Mistake”
Since launching its Stand Up for Free Speech project in 2014, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has had a great deal of success in defeating college officials … Continue reading “Student Free Speech Suffers a Defeat”
During last week’s hearings on President Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, Senator Bernie Sanders asked her, “Will you work with me and others to make public colleges … Continue reading “Hillary Clinton Lost, But Her “Free” College Idea Lives On”
The authoritarianism that increasingly characterizes the American professoriate is on full display in a case involving the master’s program in social work at Rhode Island College (RIC). A student who … Continue reading “Either Support Our Politics or Find Another Field”
(Editor’s note: This article first appeared on Forbes.com.) Hostility to free speech has become a salient characteristic of American college campuses. Speech codes that make it dangerous for students (or … Continue reading “Shouldn’t an Entire Campus Be a Free Speech Zone—Not Just .02 Percent of It?”
On December 19, the U.S. Department of Education announced that as of the end of the year, it would no longer allow students to use federal aid money at the … Continue reading “No More Federal Student Aid Money for Charlotte School of Law”
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”