Perhaps it’s time that we acknowledge that the affirmative action policies of institutions of higher education, often excused as pursuing diversity for diversity’s sake, are actually doing more harm than good. First emerging during the 1960s, Presidents Kennedy and Johnson signed executive orders calling for “affirmative action” by government employers to prevent discrimination based on […]
Is your University short of cash? Just increase law school tuition.
August 1, 2011 by
Let’s say you’re the dean of a law school on the East Coast with just four years as dean under your belt. As your accomplishments, you can list the following: Increasing the school’s US News Ranking from 170 to 117 Higher bar passage than when hired A new building almost completed Securing a donor willing […]
Liberals cruising Easy St. in higher ed.
June 2, 2011 by
I’ve heard it asked about the ’60s: where did all the hippies go? To the universities, that’s where. If you can’t change the world in protests (or by blowing up a government building), go into education and change it slowly instead, teaching the young and impressionable. Oh, and pull down a nice salary at the […]
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