Sarah McLaughlin reveals how foreign governments pressure American universities through speech codes and satellite campuses, and examines the broader threat international authoritarianism poses to free expression.
But there's a silver lining—sort of.
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Yet the facts in the article would equally have supported the headline, "Elite Private Colleges Apparently Hurt College-Bound Women, Trump May Stop That."
One claim is that CMU's Chief Diversity Officer illegally recorded meeting with student and the accused professor—and then apparently "asserted her Fifth Amendment rights when ... asked her if she did so or if she had a pattern or practice of recording student meetings, without their consent, in the scope of her duties."
If you get into an elite college, you probably don't have a learning disability.
What the controversy over a failing grade for a bad essay reveals about the true purpose of higher education.
New data display the failures of the expanded Discovery Program.
FTC staff support the proposal by the Texas Supreme Court to allow for alternative means of accreditation.
The flashy coach is not worth a fraction of the drama he brings with him—and teams end up struggling when he leaves.
The decision isn't a value judgment. It's a recognition that nursing school is usually cheaper than medical school.
Misused pandemic funds, luxury travel, and declining achievement reveal a crisis of priorities—one only school choice can fix.
"The [eventually released personnel] records contain no negative performance reviews, but they do contain three anonymous complaints. Those complaints accused Grossenbach of 'creat[ing] a hostile environment for transgender and LGBTQ students' in connection with his SaveCFSD activities [allegedly referring solely to Grossenbach's outside-class political activity -EV], among other things."
The National Review founder's flexible approach to politics defined conservatism as we know it.
Jason Riley and Paul Frymer debate affirmative action and the Supreme Court.
I coauthored the article with four other legal scholars from across the political spectrum.
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Last academic year, DIY education grew at nearly three times the average rate it did during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new research.
Zohran Mamdani’s campaign shows how the rhetoric of working-class revolution now resonates most with the highly educated.
Dr. Wolf von Laer and Sean Themea join Nick Gillespie to discuss how Kirk’s murder is reshaping student activism and where libertarian ideas fit in today’s campus climate.
That understanding of a familiar anti-Biden slogan hinges on the political message it communicates.
The superintendent blamed the “significant liability the district assumes whenever we are transporting students.”
The murder of an American activist tore apart Britain’s hallowed free speech club.
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A feisty, cancel-culture provocation that isn't willing to commit.
Larry the cat's co-conspirators pulled a prank that highlighted a serious problem in scientific research.
A joint statement and a solo analysis of the Compact's problems
It is forthcoming in Academic Freedom in the Era of Trump, (Lee Bollinger and Geoffrey Stone, eds., Oxford University Press).
The lack of intellectual pluralism undermines the truth-seeking function of the university.
The discussion of campus free speech that almost did not happen at NYU.
That strategy, which rejects the possibility of sincere disagreement, is poisonous to rational debate.
From library books to abortion, gender, and even food, the culture war is now feeding the police state.
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