August, 2006 Entries

August 31

    • ACORN Grows on Campuses
    • You Stay Classy, MTV
    • More on Undergrad Growth
    • Re: Hispanics and Racial Preferences
    • Harvard's Khatami Shame

August 30

    • More on Earmarked Federal Funds
    • Adieu, Les Entrepreneurs!
    • More Catholic College Issues
    • Indoctrination at Baruch
    • Undergraduate Growth
    • The Latest on the Duke Lacrosse Rape Scandal
    • Faculty Research
    • Campus Meaninglessness
    • Cost of Remediation
    • Georgetown, a Distinctly European View
    • Title IX Update

August 29

    • More on Hispanics and Racial Preferences
    • Speaking Truth to Power?
    • The Iniquity of Admissions String-Pulling
    • Georgetown’s Casting out of Evangelicals: Liberal Bias?
    • Patrick Reilly is Right
    • Another 9/11 Revisionist Case

August 28

    • RE: Hispanics and Racial Preferences
    • Tolerance and a Student Would-Be Bomber
    • More on Georgetown’s Ejection of Evangelicals
    • Re: Women's Studies
    • eBay’s No-No List
    • RE: Hispanics and Racial Preferences
    • Here We Go Again (With a Twist)
    • UCLA fights back
    • Serious Students Shouldn't Take Women's Studies
    • The Same Justification
    • Do-Gooders
    • Hispanics and Racial Preferences, Cont.

August 25

    • Find Dissatisfaction, Create a New Academic Position
    • 2008 & Higher Ed
    • Exotica: A Patriotic Story of America
    • Exploring the Campus Culture Wars
    • ACE’S Weasely “No”
    • Vedder Questions our Investment in Higher Education

August 24

    • RE: "HISPANICS AND RACIAL PREFERENCES"
    • T-Shirt for Sale
    • Religion and the Growth of Government
    • Hispanics and Racial Preferences
    • Insidious Subsidies
    • Mandatory Student Fees
    • Wrong Again

August 23

    • Conservatives and Religion
    • The Mother of All Massacres
    • "Ayn Rand College"
    • Raising Our Kids
    • The Decline of Teaching Loads
    • Educational Central Planning Fails

August 22

    • How does your school stack up?

August 21

    • They Got No Soul
    • A Tech Professor's Embarrassing Op-Ed
    • Weak Student Literacy
    • From the Front Lines of Tech
    • Re: Free Speech in California
    • Diversity Mania Hits LaCrosse

August 18

    • Arabic at Middlebury
    • Mainstreaming For-Profit Education? Interesting
    • Is It Just Islam?
    • More on “Professorial Criminality”
    • The Standard Line on Higher Education
    • Using higher education as an economic catalyst....
    • Free Speech in California

August 17

    • A Major Expansion of For-Profit Higher Ed?
    • More on Bravery
    • Consumer-Friendly Plan for Replacing Accreditation
    • The Brave Dissenters
    • Re: Censorship at Johns Hopkins University
    • The Intellectual Monoculture

August 16

    • Going Wobbly on Tech
    • Re: Of Theology and Conspiracy Theory
    • Vigilante Censorship
    • Of Theology and Conspiracy Theory
    • Pop Culture Knowledge

August 15

    • Mystery Solved
    • Georgia Tech’s Speech Code is History
    • More on “Islamism” v. “Islamic Fascism”
    • “Welcome to the Real World, Professors”

August 14

    • Universities and Terror
    • Commissioners and Trustees: Peas in a Pod?
    • FIRE Strikes Again
    • “Islamism,” Not “Islamic Fascism”
    • Is College Worth It?
    • Campuses Worldwide: A Threat to Human Security?
    • UC Opens Pandora’s Box: Tenure Reform
    • Ideological Rigidity? Worse Yet To Come
    • The Education Bottom Line
    • Thumbs Down on the Final Report

August 11

    • Student Evals
    • The Ludwig von Mises Institute
    • Re: Evaluations
    • Evaluating Evaluations
    • Re: Vedder on the Final Report
    • Of Fish and Ducks
    • Vedder's Comments on the Final Report

August 10

    • A New Race Category
    • Wisconsin Fires Back
    • More on Higher Education “Pork”
    • Althouse and Discrimination

August 09

    • Any Hope for Higher Education Commission Reforms?
    • Marshall Capitulates
    • More Churchill
    • Pork Seekers Avoid Congressional Searchlights at the Trough
    • SDS is Back

August 08

    • Grade Inflation
    • Invigorating Ignorance
    • Re: College Pork
    • What Is Wrong With Wisconsin?
    • Arab Students Missing
    • Checking More Than One Racial Box
    • Professorial Criminality

August 07

    • College Pork
    • Full Data
    • Folly
    • Vedder's New Site
    • Young Conservatives in the Times

August 04

    • CCAP: Most Promising
    • “Anti-Freedom Weasels”
    • There is No Crisis in Engineer Training
    • ABCs
    • Richard Vedder Comments on the Final Draft
    • More Survey Data

August 03

    • MESA’s Closed Mind
    • Cronyism Trumped by Standards
    • Private Schools Really Are Better
    • "Whiteness Studies"
    • Why did Yale turn down Juan Cole?

August 02

    • Shame on the Brooklyn Public Library
    • Lobbying In Alabama Colleges
    • ROTC and the Chattering Class
    • Can Anything Be Done About Miserable Courses?
    • Faculty Unions

August 01

    • Middlebury’s Arabic Morass
    • FIRE on Fredonia
    • Al Qaeda’s Strategy
    • Is the College Bubble About to Burst?

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