Higher Education - Quillette (Page 3)

Lessons from an Academic Social Panic

Following on an investigative report detailing McMaster University’s mishandling of false sex-ring accusations in 2020, here are four lessons to help prevent a recurrence

Jonathan Kay

18 Jun 2023 · 11 min read

Dismantle DEI Ideology

The disgraceful scenes at Stanford are a flawless embodiment of how diversity doctrine distorts academic life and constrains decision-making.

Heather Mac Donald

26 Mar 2023 · 16 min read

Left or Right, Politicians Shouldn’t Be Telling Academics What They’re Allowed to Teach

The campaign to ban Critical Race Theory and other ‘woke’ dogmas channels the same illiberal spirit that conservatives claim to oppose.

Michael Shermer

21 Feb 2023 · 7 min read

Stuck in the Middle (of Academia)

Academia is a mess, but there is still hope.

Christopher J. Ferguson

1 Jan 2023 · 12 min read

At Canadian Universities, Race and Gender Quotas Have Become a Way of Life

In their recruitment efforts, some schools now flat-out exclude white males who don’t self-identify as disabled or LGBT.

Margaret Wente

2 Dec 2022 · 11 min read

Bloated College Administration Is Making Education Unaffordable

Our campuses are stuffed with non-academic office workers. If elected to Harvard’s Board of Overseers, I‘ll propose firing most of them.

Harvey Silverglate

2 Nov 2022 · 4 min read

Institutional Self-Renunciation Is Making Us Lonely

Human identity is inextricably tied to group affiliation. So what happens when all the groups we know and love become ‘problematic’?

N. Russell

16 Aug 2022 · 5 min read

Why Did Harvard University Go After One of Its Best Black Professors?

Roland Fryer Jr.’s life is a movie script: A man abandoned by his mom and raised by an alcoholic dad became the youngest black professor to ever secure tenure at Harvard University. After ascending to the academic elite, Fryer didn’t resign himself to irrelevant technical puzzles; he put

Rob Montz

15 Apr 2022 · 10 min read

A Student Sleuth Found Evidence that Our University Practices Reverse Racism. Here’s Why I Advised Him Not to Publish It

At the American university where I teach, one of my assigned tasks is to advise undergraduates—mostly freshmen and sophomores. This essay describes a conversation I had in 2017 with one of those advisees. I will call him Daniel. Daniel was a sophomore at the time. He had been an

Keith David

17 Feb 2022 · 10 min read

Standards-Based Grading Will Ruin Education

Standards-based learning does lead to more equal outcomes, but only by flattening everyone down to a lower educational standard.

Auguste Meyrat

2 Dec 2021 · 7 min read

What Is Diversity? And Why Is It Valuable?

People differ from one another in many different ways.

Justin P. McBrayer

6 Oct 2021 · 11 min read

As US Schools Prioritize Diversity Over Merit, China Is Becoming the World’s STEM Leader

In a 2018 report published by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), China ranked first in mathematical proficiency among 15-year-olds, while the United States was in 25th place.

Percy Deift, Svetlana Jitomirskaya, and Sergiu Klainerman

19 Aug 2021 · 13 min read

Higher Education Risks No Longer Being Worth It – Here’s How to Change Course

The fact that higher education is suffering from the pandemic is not surprising—every sector has been affected one way or another.

Christos A. Makridis

28 Dec 2020 · 6 min read

COVID-19 Has Exposed Critical Weaknesses in Global Higher Education

While the pandemic has been challenging for everyone, let’s hope the disruption that is taking place in higher education is the beginning of a broader reform movement that refocuses the emphasis on the learner and how instructors and faculty can empower them to create value in the marketplace.

Christos A. Makridis and Soula Parassidis

29 May 2020 · 6 min read

Villanova and the Compulsory Pieties of Higher Education

Once the institutions become ideologically homogenous within, the only credible threats are the ones from without: hence the importance of deplatforming outside speakers.

Lyell Asher

25 Nov 2019 · 15 min read