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 Admissions and Public Higher Education in California, Texas, and Florida: The Post-Affirmative Action Era, InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies, February, 2008
| | "Clearly in an open admissions process where affirmative action does not enter into enrollment decisions and where legacy and donor issues are discouraged, Asian-American students compete very well." |
The Scandal Of Social Work Education, National Association of Scholars, September 2007
| | "The major social work education programs we examined.. have lost sight of the difference between instruction and indoctrination to a scandalous extent. They have, for the most part, adopted an official ideological line, closing off debate on many questions that serious students of public policy would admit to the play of contending viewpoints." |
Why Accreditation Doesn't Work and What Policymakers Can Do About It, American Council of Trustees and Alumni, July 2007
| | "Accreditation only shows that the school is following what the accreditors think is the proper formula for a successful educational institution, not whether an institution is in fact successful at teaching students." |
The Vanishing Shakespeare, American Council of Trustees and Alumni, April 2007
| | "Of the 70 colleges researched only 15 require their English majors to take a course on the Bard." |
How Politically Diverse Are the Social Sciences and Humanities?, Daniel B. Klein and Charlotta Stern
| | Department Balances: Anthropology: 30.2 Democrats to 1 Republican. Least? Economics: 3 Democrats to 1 Republican |
The Coming Crisis in Citizenship, Intercollegiate Studies Institute, February 2007
| | Gettysburg ended the War of Independence, right? Plenty of college seniors think so. |
Spotlight on Speech Codes 2006: The State of Free Speech on Our Nation's Campuses, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, December 2006
| | The speech policies of 8 Universities accord with the First Amendment. 229 "unambiguously infringe on protected expressions." |
How Many Ward Churchills?, American Council of Trustees and Alumni, May 2006
Political Behavior and Beliefs of College Faculty, Institute for Jewish and Community Research, Gary A. Tobin, Aryeh K.Weinberg, 2006
| | A comprehensive study of professor ideological identifications, party membership, voting behavior, and issue beliefs. |
Intellectual Diversity: Time for Action, American Council of Trustees and Alumni, December 2005
| | A quest for "the clearer perception and the livelier impression of truth produced by its collision with error." |
Politics and Professional Advancement Among College Faculty, Center for the Study of Social and Political Change, Stanley Rothman, S. Robert Lichter, Neil Nevitte, 2005
| | Conclusion: "An ideological homogeneity exists in academia that has become self-reinforcing." |
A Systemic Analysis Of Affirmative Action in American Law Schools, Richard Sander, Stanford Law Review, November 2004
| | "Yet if the findings in this Article are correct, blacks are the victims of law school programs of affirmative action, not the beneficiaries. The programs set blacks up for failure in school, aggravate attrition rates, turn the bar exam into a major hurdle, disadvantage most blacks in the job market, and depress the overall production of black lawyers." |
The Changing Shape of the River: Affirmative Action and Recent Social Science Research, Russell Nieli, Princeton University, Politics Department, October 2004
| | Do students benefit from Affirmative Action once in college? Not quite. |
The Chronicle Survey of Public Opinion on Higher Education, Chronicle of Higher Education, 05-07-2004
| | "Compared with your political views, do you think college professors are: More Conservative: 11% More Liberal: 51%" |
The Hollow Core: Failure of the General Education Curriculum, American Council of Trustees and Alumni, April 2004
| | Subjects no longer required: Composition, U.S. Government, Economics, Foreign Language, Literature, Mathematics... |
Becoming an Educated Person: Toward a Core Curriculum for College Students, American Council of Trustees and Alumni, July 2003
| | A plan for establishing meaningful core curricula, with detailed analysis of extant examples. |
Today's College Students and Yesteryear's High School Grads: A Comparison of General Cultural Knowledge, The National Association of Scholars, December 2002
| | "Asked "In what country was the Battle of Waterloo fought'? only 3% of this year's college seniors correctly identified the country as Belgium, as opposed to 64% of the 1950s college graduates." |
Restoring America's Legacy: The Challenge of Historical Literacy in the 21st Century, American Council of Trustees and Alumni, 2002
| | "ACTA found that students could graduate from 100% of the top colleges without taking a course in American History" |
Is Campus Racial Diversity Correlated with Educational Benefits?, The National Association of Scholars, April 2001
| | That depends upon what you mean by "Educational Benefit." |
Losing America's Memory: Historical Illiteracy in the 21st Century, American Council of Trustees and Alumni, February 2000
| | Only 22% of 50 top colleges require a course in history of any sort. |
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