It’s been many years since I attended a college class, so I wonder if stories like this are the exception, or the rule? Just how far gone is academia?
Category Archives: Education
Chomsky Versus Hitchens
It’s not a pretty sight. Sort of like Bambi versus Godzilla.
The Great Irish Hunger
Lessons learned. Hint: it wasn’t a failure of the free market.
It’s May First
Remember the victims of communism.
There were and are many millions of them.
Critical Legal Studies
Was Obama heavily into them at Harvard Law? It would actually be quite out of character for him if he weren’t.
On The Lousy Value
…of many college degrees. At Cracked.
I don’t know if this is the next bubble to pop, but pop it will.
In Which I Scoop Donald Trump
I’ve had a document for a while now that I have neither disclosed, or provided to Wikileaks. But now that the Donald seems on the verge of spilling the beans, I’ve decided it’s time to go public, so I can scoop, or “Trump” him (ha ha…). I can’t know for sure whether this is genuine, but in light of the rest of the history that is slowly being revealed, (e.g., by Stanley Kurtz), these Columbia transcripts that the president has refused to release look quite plausible. Continue reading In Which I Scoop Donald Trump
The War Against Men On Campus
The Truths That May Not Be Uttered
This is beyond frightening. Remember it the next time some leftist talks about the “war against science” from the “right.”
US History
…as taught (or not) at Bowdoin College. Sadly, I suspect that it’s not alone in that regard.
[Update a while later]
Here’s a long-overdue idea: No repayment plan, no student loan:
Tidewater Community College, in Virginia, will soon require students to go above and beyond Education Department requirements to receive federal loan funds. Starting next fall, students who want the college to certify their eligibility for student loans must complete personal budget worksheets, outlining a “realistic picture of their financial situation” both before and after graduation, and a student loan repayment plan estimating how their monthly payments fit into those budgets.
As Glenn says, “If this were to catch on, it would have devastating effects on certain colleges and majors.”
Yeah, like maybe history majors at Bowdoin.