Students, Sex, Social Media, and Why the Steven Galloway Affair Is So Murky
There’s a solution, but it’s not one that most feminists want to hear.
Irene Ogrizek
· 6 min read
Education
A collection of 439 posts
The University as a Total Institution
To all who value academic freedom, tolerance, and human dignity, weaponized diversity should be as abhorrent as the Total University it supports.
John Paul Wright
· 14 min read
In Praise of Ignorance
To have a chance at solving our problems we must not condemn each other for openly stating our ignorance.
Simon Cullen
· 5 min read
Expansion Is No Longer the Answer to Improving the Education System
If the lessons of the past 50 years are to be learned, policymakers will need a much broader course of instruction than can be provided by human capital theory.
Dean Ashenden
· 5 min read
Why Colleges Should Stop Teaching “Toxic Masculinity”
For every article published highlighting a case of students being taught this ideology, there are dozens of other instances that aren’t covered by the news.
Mazelit Airaksinen
· 4 min read
Time to Draw the Line in the Sand on Trigger Warnings
The first thing to note in this context is that PTSD is extremely rare, even among trauma victims.
Mark Fabian
· 5 min read
Review: Paying the Price: College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream — Sara Goldrick-Rab
Paying the Price draws on an unprecedented study that tracked the educational outcomes of 3,000 young adults that entered college in Wisconsin in 2008.
Mazelit Airaksinen
· 4 min read
Why Universities Should Get Rid of PowerPoint and Why They Won't
Overreliance on slides has contributed to the absurd belief that expecting and requiring students to read books, attend classes, take notes and do homework is unreasonable.
Paul Ralph
· 4 min read
What I Learned in My Women’s Studies Classes
Oppression does indeed exist. But, oppression is complicated, far more complicated than can be distilled in an undergraduate academic setting.
Mazelit Airaksinen
· 4 min read
The Real Problem with Renaming Buildings on Campus: Logistics
Let’s face it: there is no logical, consistent way to approach renaming of buildings — especially when the protestors, themselves, are opposed to logical discourse.
Eva Glasrud
· 4 min read
Safe University
There was no reason anything should go wrong; she had her notes, and they had been screened by the department chair to ensure that they contained nothing offensive.
Henry Rambow
· 11 min read
Forget Microaggressions, Some Students Face Hunger and Homelessness
There are many who go hungry or homeless. How can students prosper without food? Or without a safe place to sleep?
Mazelit Airaksinen
· 4 min read
Where Are the Conservative Professors?
In this environment, it’s almost impossible to find anyone — students or professors — who admit they hold conservative views.
Mazelit Airaksinen
· 4 min read
Purity and Tolerance: The Contradictory Morality of College Campuses
Moral cultures reflect their social structures, and victimhood culture is no different: It occurs in a context where there is cultural diversity, social equality, and stable authority.
Bradley Campbell and Jason Manning
· 7 min read
Feminism Blinds Students to the Truth About Men
Are women so smothered by the blanket of victimhood that we can’t concede that men face issues too? Isn’t the hallmark of intersectionality finding victimhood everywhere?
Mazelit Airaksinen
· 5 min read