April, 2009 Entries

April 30

    • John Allison: Practicing What He Preaches
    • Dartmouth Trustee Battle Won't Die Down

April 29

    • Academe Has Deformed Students' Character
    • More SAT Quibbling
    • Re: SAT
    • Blow Struck for Free Speech
    • In Defense of the SAT
    • The High Cost of Our Research Mania
    • Re: The SAT and Its Enemies
    • The SAT and Its Enemies

April 28

    • Closed-Mindedness in Higher Ed

April 27

    • Deny Massad Tenure
    • Yes, It is Possible to Protect Free Speech on Campus
    • 'Terrible Breach' between Notre Dame and the Catholic Church
    • Virginia Tech's Diversity Requirement: Back to the Ramparts
    • Graff as Gorbachev
    • Terrorist Speakers in Demand on Campuses

April 23

    • Lenten 'Gomorrah Festivals' on Catholic Campuses
    • Anti-Free Speech Protest Fails This Time
    • 'Paranoid' Khalidi's Unreliable Scholarship
    • Ed Schools and Teacher Quality
    • UNC Sends the Right Message . . . This Time
    • So That's College Education These Days . . .
    • More on 'Crumbling' Higher Education

April 22

    • Notre Dame, Georgetown, and Wrong Choices
    • Staff-to-Student Ratio Increasing on Campus?
    • Is the Ivory Tower Crumbling?
    • Are Campuses 'Nodes' for Extremists?

April 21

    • Hail
    • Reader Mail re: Income and College Enrollment
    • News from Obama U.
    • Another Silly 'Education Gap' Piece
    • The SDS -- Back in Force on College Campuses
    • Ability, Income, and College Enrollment

April 20

    • Re: Bond in a Bind
    • Missing the Mismatch Forest

April 19

    • FBI Questions UM Students
    • Those Open-Minded Academics

April 18

    • Gutless Georgetown and Presidential Gall
    • Re: Solved!
    • Solved!

April 17

    • Bond in a Bind

April 16

    • U-Mess
    • The Bad Police Made Us
    • Re: ABC on College Shootings
    • Is a Good Core Curriculum a Form of Indoctrination?
    • A Comment on Dartmouth
    • ABC on College Shootings
    • New Book on College Plagiarism

April 15

    • Mismatch and Ph.D.s
    • Re: Tancredo Protest
    • Violent Protest at UNC: What to Do?
    • Must-See TV
    • Not the Very Model of a Modern College Trustee
    • Re: Harvard Islamic Chaplain
    • Should Profs Post Syllabi Online Before Registration?
    • Prof Masterminds Rise of MB in Obama Administration
    • Good News at Virginia Tech
    • The Counterinsurgency at Dartmouth
    • Ginsburg on Transnationalism
    • Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, RIP

April 14

    • Harvard Islamic Chaplain: Don't 'Dismiss' Religious Executions
    • C'mon, Mr. President
    • Re: 'Social Justice'
    • That Word Does Not Mean What You Think it Means
    • UK Universities Havens for Jihadist Wanna-Bes

April 13

    • Graff at the MLA
    • UNC Needs to Go on a Diet
    • Penn State Update
    • The Minority Admissions 'Ceiling'
    • Gun Rights on Campus

April 10

    • Virginia Tech's Demand for Allegiance to Diversity
    • Princeton, the Robertsons, and Donor Intent
    • Diversity Benefits: Where's the Evidence?
    • Of All the Nerve!

April 09

    • Lousy Food, and Such Small Portions
    • Yes, We Can! (Fight Students' Entitlement Mentality)
    • Julea Ward is Not Alone
    • Business Schools and the Financial Meltdown

April 08

    • Is Penn State Serious?
    • Teachers Pass Out Crib Sheets
    • Virginia Tech Diversity Controversy
    • Good Interview with Neal McCluskey
    • 'Ayer Head' Prof Defends Ayers

April 07

    • The Best Short Argument Against Speech Zones
    • Thought Reform at Eastern Michigan University
    • Under Review

April 06

    • Three Thoughts About the Ward Churchill Verdict
    • Another One-Dimensional Conference on Race
    • Radical Islam as Epistemological Quagmire
    • Is There Any Upside to Preferential Admission Policies?
    • Conservative Commencement Speaker Draws Protests

April 03

    • If There’s Anything Worse Than Another PC Orientation Program . . .
    • The Last Refuge of the Scoundrel
    • Lunds University's Course on Sharia in Europe
    • College Grads Leaving Michigan

April 02

    • Reader Mail re: Social Media
    • Duke Students Oppose Fixation with Race
    • Indoctrination for Credit at BC

April 01

    • Koh's Academic Hero Proposed 'Global Dictatorship'
    • An Idea So Bad It Could Become Law
    • Getting it Right at Auburn
    • Expanding Title IX
    • The Proliferation of 'Essay Mills'
    • More on 'More Boxes'

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