Oh, the irony is strong at Wellesley College: Timothy Boatwright was born a girl, and checked off the “female” box when applying to the Massachusetts all-women’s school, according to an article in the New York…
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Columbus Day: Celebrating American Exceptionalism, Not the PC Narratives
Below is a portion of a great piece at the National Review on why Christopher Columbus is important to American history and idea of American exceptionalism: One man, two narratives: 1. Born to a working-class…
Today’s Safe Spaces for Minority Students Looks a Lot Like Racial Segregation
UConn has created ‘safe spaces’ for their minority students by creating an all-black male dormitory hall. Hmm, doesn’t that appear to roll back the advances of the civil rights movement? Photo by gtalan
Student Activists are Really Radical Today
A good take from David French at the National Review: Campus radicals hold a shared vision that has the potential to rip this nation to shreds. It’s a vision instigated by people with impossible demands…
Texas University Cancels ‘The Vagina Monologues’ since the Writer is a White Woman
This is… just getting out of hand, isn’t it?! Photo by paraplegicpanda Photo by paraplegicpanda
In the Real World, the Left is Close-Minded and the Right is the Opposite
Check out this piece by David French at National Review Online.
No to Gov’t Intervention in Collecting College Student Data
Great take by Joy Pullmann on the potential lifting of a ban on collecting national student data. Let’s not let the government take over another part of education, please?
America’s Dysfunctional Universities Need to Downsize Now
As Michael Barone wrote in NRO: “American colleges and universities, long thought to be the glory of the nation, are in more than a little trouble. I’ve written before of their shameful practices — the…
What Black History Misses
We have a plethora of black history courses in primary, secondary and post-secondary institutions of learning throughout the United States. Yet and still, there are indications that quantity does not necessarily equal quality. “As the…
College Education Doesn’t Guarantee Anything, writes Victor Davis Hanson
As Hansen put it: “A bachelor’s degree is no longer proof that any graduate can read critically or write effectively. National college-entrance-test scores have generally declined the last few years, and grading standards have as…