All my adult life, I have warned people about the low moral and intellectual level of colleges and universities. This is the way I have put it: “If you send your child to college, you are playing Russian Roulette with his or her values.” I have always made it […]
Police made dozens of arrests as pro-Palestinian protest encampments were dismantled Friday at the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, hours after police tear-gassed demonstrators and took down a similar camp at the University of Arizona. Philadelphia and campus police moved in around daybreak at Penn to remove protesters from an encampment […]
One short answer would be you do – in the form of taxpayer subsidies. The auditors at OpenTheBooks.com quantified the federal payments on contracts and grants and special tax treatment of their endowments into the eight schools of the Ivy League plus Stanford University and Northwestern University. Since 2018, $33 billion of federal contracts and […]
For $90,000 a year, parents of some elite school students expected more than hate. A report in The Wall Street Journal says some parents are calling for tuition refunds and rethinking future enrollments. “They are not getting the education they expected and paid for,” Zev Gewurz, a Boston real-estate lawyer whose daughter is a senior […]
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — With student protests over the Israel-Hamas war disrupting campuses nationwide, several major universities are intent on ensuring that commencement ceremonies – joyous milestones for graduates, their families and friends – go off without a hitch this weekend. It won’t be easy. Colleges are hiring extra security, screening attendees at venues and […]
SYDNEY (AP) — Pro-Palestinian protesters were camped on university campuses across Australia on Friday, with some scuffling with pro-Israel protesters in Sydney, mirroring similar events in the United States. Students have set up encampments at universities in major Australian cities over the last two weeks to protest Israel’s offensive in Gaza. The students are demanding […]
Elite higher education in America — long unquestioned as globally preeminent — is facing a perfect storm. Fewer applicants, higher costs, impoverished students, collapsing standards, and increasingly politicized and mediocre faculty reflect a collapse of the university system. The country is waking up to the reality that a bachelor’s […]
House Republicans on Tuesday called for the immediate resignation of Columbia University President Dr. Minouche Shafik, saying she has “lost complete control” of her campus amid growing pro-Palestinian protests. “The university leadership has lost complete control. It is a disgrace and it is untenable. And we as House Republicans will hold them to account,” said […]
NEW YORK — From New York to California, students protesting the Israel–Hamas war slept in tents at college campuses, as some universities moved to shut down encampments and arrested dozens of demonstrators. With the death toll mounting in the war in Gaza, protesters nationwide are demanding schools cut financial ties to Israel and divest from […]
NEW YORK — Students protesting the Israel-Hamas war at universities across U.S., some of whom have clashed with police in riot gear, dug in Saturday and vowed to keep their demonstrations going as faculty at several schools condemned university presidents who have called in law enforcement to remove protesters. As Columbia University continues negotiations with […]
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