Perspectives

So what do the labor unions and their representatives say when presented with questions and conflicting facts?

The
National Association of Scholars today renewed its call that the U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services abandon its use of the Council for Social Work Education
(CSWE) – an accreditor of university social work programs – as a gatekeeper for
hiring social workers in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.

In the University of California (U.C.) system, college applicants are tired of having their religious studies marginalized.

On Tuesday, November 14, 2006, members of the San Francisco School Board voted 4 to 2 to eliminate over the course of 2 years the San Francisco School District’s Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps. We call this JROTC.

Each and every school superintendent across the land has to verify each year in writing that his/her school district is NOT violating individual rights to free religious expression in public schools (which includes prayer), or risk funding loss.

Two events occurred in Washington, DC, in late February that could foreshadow a significant decline in the independence of American colleges and universities.

Even those who support the use of racial and ethnic admission preferences cannot argue that such discrimination ought to take place in secret.

The University of Minnesota’s Department of Theatre, Arts and Dance is hosting the Dario Fo play, “The Pope and the Witch” through March 9. Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments.

Vance Fried, the Brattain Professor of Management at Oklahoma State University, has set forth a proposal that he believes will enable students to get “champagne education on a beer budget.”

When the president of William and Mary removed a cross from the altar of the chapel, everone noticed, including the state legislature that helps to pay his salary.

Although the recent “Emerging Issues” conference at North Carolina State University missed the boat on the big issues, there were a few bright spots that education leaders ought to know about.

Did MIT let a distinguished black scientist go because of his opposition to embryonic stem cell research?