Wallace Hall, a University of Texas graduate, is a Regent board member of the university and had discovered a slush fund scandal that led to a dean’s resignation, in addition to a law school admission…
Topic: Accuracy in Academia
Government Regulation is the New Growth Industry, says Georgetown University
A few years back, universities were touting “green jobs,” to college graduates, implementing environmental regulations but they never materialized. Now Georgetown thinks it has found a new growth industry. “In the ever-changing and complex landscape…
Hoover Institution Republishes ‘American Individualism’
From the Hoover Institution: The Hoover Institution Press re-released the timely volume, American Individualism, by President Herbert Hoover with an introduction by acclaimed Herbert Hoover biographer George H. Nash. In 1921, then secretary of commerce Herbert…
Attacking the Federal Government’s Regulatory Beast
Stories surfaced this year to the effect that federal employees would quit if Donald Trump were elected. Unfortunately, that’s not likely to happen. “Most of what we think of as federal law is written by…
Feds Should Stop Pushing College Students into Ruinous Debt
That sounds like a reasonable assertion, right? Why is the federal government pushing America’s future into ruinous student loan debt? This from George Leef: Bad borrowing decisions are almost impossible to escape. Consider the case…
California University Held ‘Whiteness Forum’ to Look at White Privilege
This ‘Whiteness Forum’ also had a ‘Make America White Again’ display to poke fun at Donald Trump: Students at Cal State San Marcos on Thursday hosted a “Whiteness Forum” as part of a communications class…
Trump Derangement Syndrome 101: A Primer
College professors and their minions lost a presidential election for the first time in eight years and don’t know how to handle it. On college campuses, puppies, coloring books and crying towels are all the…
CSUN Claimed ‘Logistics’ Won’t Let ‘No Safe Spaces’ Documentary to Film On-Campus
From The College Fix: Comedian Adam Carolla and radio show host Dennis Prager won’t get to include California State University-Northridge in their campus documentary No Safe Spaces, at least for the time being. The duo’s…
Ironic? Harvard Professor Pointed Out Obama’s Executive Order on Bathrooms Could Backfire
Oh, the irony: The Obama administration has used informal regulatory “guidance” to accomplish some major parts of its agenda, including the imposition of a low evidence standard in campus sexual-assault proceedings. It has also used guidance…
University of Maryland President Spoke Spanish and Offended Hispanic Students
Being offended because the university president gave a statement in English and translated it into Spanish sounds ridiculous: Much of Loh’s annual State of the Campus Address was a “a clear call to embrace diversity,”…