Minding the Campus - Author Archives

· Why She Was Fired, May 14, 2012

· A Blogger's Warning to Academics, May 3, 2012

· Muslims, NYPD and Dubious Journalism Awards, May 1, 2012

· Can't Talk--Faculty Are Nearby, April 30, 2012

· It's Commencement Protest Season, April 26, 2012

· The Sociologist as Ethical Entrepreneur, April 26, 2012

· The Battle at Vanderbilt Goes National, April 25, 2012

· The University of California Does Not Like Criticism, April 19, 2012

· Teach Them What to Think, and Maybe Bribe Them Too, April 13, 2012

· Harvard's Level of Tolerance--Lower Than You Think, April 11, 2012

· One Result of Income Inequality--Dubious Psychological Studies, April 9, 2012

· Uh-oh, Students Are Starting to Talk Like Administrators, April 5, 2012

· 'Feelings' as the Measure of Student Misconduct, April 3, 2012

· Even Zimmerman Has Rights, March 29, 2012

· The GOP "Turn" Against Colleges and Universities, March 15, 2012

· A Good Debate on Affirmative Action, March 7, 2012

· How to Be President of Yale Forever (At Least), March 6, 2012

· A Harvard Apologist for China's One-Child Brutality, February 22, 2012

· Please Don't Sue If You Hate This Item, February 9, 2012

· Is This Our Most Corrupted Campus Department?, January 24, 2012

· Let's Not Turn Satire and Criticism into Discriminatory Harassment, January 14, 2012

· Person of the Year Four Times, December 14, 2011

· What Are Your Chances of Graduating?, November 30, 2011

· Our Dysfunctional Campuses Will Have to Change, November 22, 2011

· Here Comes the Anti-Bullying Bureaucracy, November 16, 2011

· Star Chamber Provision on Campus Dropped, November 14, 2011

· Brown Wrestles with the English Language and Loses, October 27, 2011

· Yes, We're Broke, But Leave the Diversity Machine Alone, October 26, 2011

· Too-Large Subsidies for Too-Selective Colleges, October 4, 2011

· The News about the Wisconsin Mob Gets Out, September 23, 2011

· Yes, $16 per Muffin, September 21, 2011

· More Campus Claptrap about 9/11, September 12, 2011

· The Way Princeton Behaves, June 29, 2011

· Three Strong Views of the Kushner Affair, June 24, 2011

· Why Do Multiple-Choice Tests Lie All the Time?, June 21, 2011

· Please Don't Read Any Convention Papers, June 16, 2011

· The Elites Handle the Kushner Controversy, May 12, 2011

· Good Grief--Why Are the Students Cheering?, May 5, 2011

· Is There a College My Son or Daughter Can Trust?, April 27, 2011

· Erratum, April 26, 2011

· Golf, Diversity and Bowdoin History, April 15, 2011

· School Officials Attack Easter, Thanksgiving and White Oppression, April 14, 2011

· U.S. History as Taught at Bowdoin (Ugh) , April 14, 2011

· Is Oregon State Punishing a Republican's Children?, March 8, 2011

· Sex on Campus, Part 373, March 3, 2011

· The Usefulness of the Victim Role, February 13, 2011

· Why the Times Article Hit Home, February 10, 2011

· Shame on the Sociologists, January 25, 2011

· Students Who Learn Little or Nothing, January 19, 2011

· Do We Need More College Grads?, December 10, 2010

· More on the Wesleyan Bake Sale, December 9, 2010

· Racism and the Controversy at Wesleyan, December 8, 2010

· Free Speech at UVA, October 28, 2010

· College for Those Who Can't Do the Work, October 18, 2010

· Criminal, Not Hurtful, September 30, 2010

· Yes, Elite Colleges Are Biased Against Poor Whites, July 28, 2010

· Don't Trash the Future Famers, July 23, 2010

· Accept Our School's Belief System, or You're Gone, July 22, 2010

· Asians and Whites Have to Stay Longer, July 20, 2010

· Long Before Hastings There Was Tufts, July 1, 2010

· Reviewing the Turbulence at Berkeley, June 17, 2010

· Let's Pretend This Is Research, June 16, 2010

· Another Dubious Academic Project?, June 9, 2010

· Summer Reading for Freshmen---Arrggh!, June 3, 2010

· Controversy in Commencement Talks, May 27, 2010

· An Unusually Cheeky Summer Assignment, May 19, 2010

· A Racial Flap at Harvard Law, April 30, 2010

· A Rape Accusation At Brown, April 16, 2010

· Great Moments in College Censorship, April 13, 2010

· Heckler's Veto in Texas and an Apology at Duke, March 30, 2010

· Pro-life College Event Hurts Feminists' Feelings!, March 29, 2010

· Canada's Censorship Culture, March 25, 2010

· Obamacare's Sad Racial Provisions, March 19, 2010

· Some Reporters Realized This Must Be A War Photo, March 16, 2010

· A Thriving Department, March 11, 2010

· Do We Need More College Graduates?, March 11, 2010

· People Who Never Got a College Degree, March 11, 2010

· Wesleyan's Anti-Hate Campaign, February 25, 2010

· Out Of Her Depth?, February 21, 2010

· That ''Hate America'' Test, January 14, 2010

· Sorry Wrong ID, January 14, 2010

· Remarkable Fact Of The Day, January 13, 2010

· A Clarification, January 5, 2010

· Having Fun, Not Working Hard, December 22, 2009

· Opening Old Wounds, December 3, 2009

· Tufts Still Struggling With Free Speech, November 30, 2009

· Two New Stories And A Job Notice, November 17, 2009

· A Very Polite Guide, November 13, 2009

· Stop The Presses! U. Mass Believes In Free Speech, November 12, 2009

· Free Speech Woes, October 26, 2009

· The FIRE This Time, October 23, 2009

· Patrick Deneen On Georgetown's Fuzzy American History, October 7, 2009

· A SHORT Guide to College Guides, October 5, 2009

· An Anti-Israel Campus Conference?, September 29, 2009

· A Ban On Horowitz, September 28, 2009

· Liberals For Free Speech At UNC, September 22, 2009

· Ranking Colleges By ''Economic Diversity'', September 14, 2009

· More on Censorship at Yale, August 13, 2009

· Here Comes "Cultural Competence", August 4, 2009

· Will Community Colleges Be More Expensive?, July 16, 2009

· Liberty Moves Against Liberty, May 26, 2009

· Identity-Group Graduations---They're Still Here, May 26, 2009

· An Academic(?) Conference to Combat the Right, May 6, 2009

· Campus Marginalization - A Permanent Threat, May 4, 2009

· Video of the Worst College Program Ever, April 24, 2009

· Is It Bias?, April 23, 2009

· Victory At Virginia Tech, April 14, 2009

· White and Non-White Freshmen to Spend Time Together!, April 14, 2009

· Fuzzy Math in California Admissions, April 8, 2009

· Sometimes Juries Get it Wrong, April 3, 2009

· The Perennial Issue---Free Speech, April 1, 2009

· Loyalty Oath At Virginia Tech, March 25, 2009

· Less Writing, More Teaching?, March 18, 2009

· Endowments Are Still Massive--So Spend, March 11, 2009

· Quiz Time, March 11, 2009

· How To Finesse A Student Occupation, March 5, 2009

· NYU Is Safe Again, February 23, 2009

· New ACTA Report, February 18, 2009

· Who Is the Real "Fascist Bastard"?, February 18, 2009

· A Crucifix Controversy at BC, February 11, 2009

· Guess What College Freshmen Think, January 27, 2009

· Orthodoxy V. Wisdom At The Supreme Court, January 23, 2009

· Score One For Yale, January 16, 2009

· Uh-Oh---Optimism, January 9, 2009

· A Survey We Can Do Without, December 10, 2008

· Campus Madness, Part 346, December 5, 2008

· More Diversity Nonsense, November 26, 2008

· Attacking Larry Summers Again, November 18, 2008

· Peter Salins In The New York Times, November 18, 2008

· Ideology In The Classroom, November 10, 2008

· Academic Freedom Under Assault? We Think Not., October 31, 2008

· Dog Bites Man Story--Academics Favor Obama, October 29, 2008

· Tunnel Of Hate, October 22, 2008

· Silliness Reigns, October 7, 2008

· Modern Lunacy In Postmodern Debate, September 30, 2008

· Massaging The SAT News, August 27, 2008

· Campus Factoids and Nuggets of Information, August 26, 2008

· A Painless Path To A College Degree, July 29, 2008

· "Intergroup Dialogue" - The Latest Indoctrination Catchphrase, July 24, 2008

· Indoctrination In Writing Class, July 22, 2008

· No Satire In Colorado, Please, June 26, 2008

· Don't Agree With The Law? No Problem - Just Ignore It., June 24, 2008

· Milton Friedman Still Irritates Some Professors, June 20, 2008

· Should Universities Be In The Social Justice Business?, June 10, 2008

· Two Speeches at Harvard, June 6, 2008

· Troublemaker, May 28, 2008

· Science Literacy (Low) and a Science Fair (Very High), May 27, 2008

· If Students Fail, Fire The Teacher, May 23, 2008

· Hire a Conservative Professor?, May 14, 2008

· Indiana: The Return Of The Puzzler, May 8, 2008

· Delaware Indoctrinators: They Just Won't Stop, May 7, 2008

· Columbia's Mistake of the Week, May 5, 2008

· Alien Creature Not Yet Dead, May 2, 2008

· Bernard Lewis on the Crisis in Middle Eastern Studies, May 2, 2008

· Fallout of Columbia, 1968, April 25, 2008

· One More Disaster At Columbia, April 23, 2008

· The Ideological Fog Of The Modern University, April 22, 2008

· Catholic Colleges Lose Their Character?, April 16, 2008

· Indoctrinate U At The Manhattan Institute, April 15, 2008

· Dumbing Down: Then And Now, April 9, 2008

· The Conference Radcliffe Didn't Want To Host, April 9, 2008

· Fat Chance? Adding Pounds To The Curriculum, April 2, 2008

· NAS And FIRE Draw Fire, March 31, 2008

· No To Israel Bashing, March 26, 2008

· Welcoming the Bomber, March 25, 2008

· To Contact The University Of Hawaii, March 21, 2008

· Hawaii and Palestine - Two Occupied Countries?, March 19, 2008

· A "Wildly Misleading" Self-Defense, March 18, 2008

· A Major Threat To American Science, March 6, 2008

· Dark Night At The Museum, March 5, 2008

· How To Set Up A Politicized Ethnic Studies Department, February 28, 2008

· No America, Please, We're Global, February 22, 2008

· Controversy In Colorado - Resolved?, February 21, 2008

· More Controversy In Colorado, February 19, 2008

· The Pitfalls Of Study Abroad, February 13, 2008

· Show And Tell For Rich Universities, January 25, 2008

· A Conservative Hate Crime Hoax, December 19, 2007

· Bad News - Brodhead Keeps His Job, December 14, 2007

· Tufts Likes Free Speech, Sort Of..., December 13, 2007

· More Delawares?, December 6, 2007

· Diversity - There's Never Enough, December 3, 2007

· Not Evil, Just Woeful, November 29, 2007

· Contest Winner, November 27, 2007

· Columbia Buys Off a Strike, November 16, 2007

· National Arts And Humanities Medals Awarded, November 15, 2007

· Aestheticization of Relationality? Really?, November 15, 2007

· Where Are The News Media?, November 15, 2007

· Duke's Failed Presidency, November 9, 2007

· Brainwashing 101, November 7, 2007

· By The Way, Somebody Turned You In, November 2, 2007

· Indoctrination At Delaware, October 30, 2007

· Ed School Politics - Still A Problem, October 26, 2007

· Who Will Stand Up For Campus Free Speech?, October 23, 2007

· Distressingly Few Conservative Profs, October 12, 2007

· Are Conservatives Like Black Major Leaguers?, October 12, 2007

· No Free Speech, Please - This is Columbia, September 28, 2007

· The 32 Worst, September 21, 2007

· Give Everyone A "D", September 19, 2007

· After Summers Comes The Fall, September 19, 2007

· Things You Might Not Know About The Duke Case, September 17, 2007

· A Political Target, September 12, 2007

· Bong Hits For Temple, September 7, 2007

· Honoring Criminals On Campus, July 24, 2007

· Praising Discomfort at Middlebury, June 6, 2007

· What Faculty Think About Religion, May 22, 2007

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