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How many people really need a degree anymore?
The basketball coach has shown no remorse for his sins.
Solving the student debt crisis in our country.
College has served as both a gateway out of cults and a pipeline into them.
College admissions, like game shows, should value answering questions correctly.
Despite what Mr. Rogers and my family said, elementary school proved that I wasn’t special.
Each political side having its own set of facts is not just bad for public debate—it leads to violence.
If Stanford chooses to know not what it does, if it chooses to grind stone to powder and scatter art like ashes, let the good gather the remnants and travel in safety.
I still don't understand why younger people are complaining about how difficult remote learning is.
News of Johns Hopkins once owning slaves is no surprise, nor worthy of changing the name of the university he founded.
University discourse doesn’t care about clarity, only the propaganda that kills the free mind.
Stop subsidizing the world’s wealthiest schools, like Harvard, whose costs threaten this nation’s treasure.
Everything you need to know in life is learned from being a theatre kid.
If I stay on social media, I go to sleep later.
Manufacturing "Americans" from the malleable flesh of toddlers.
Employers should value skills, not degrees.
Fenves speaks to pacify, not preach, for his words have nothing to do with the Word or the faith of the university’s founder.
Maryland’s Carroll County, that’s who.
I went to Emerson College and learned nothing.
The horror of California’s education system.
You say you’re not a witch, but we’ll see if you float.
A discussion of post-structuralism and its implications, featuring Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.
William F. Buckley, Jr. talks with Mel Gabler, Norma Gabler, and Pamela Bonnell about school textbooks and their alleged liberal slant.
48 minutes from the late professor on the late philosopher from the former's stellar series of lectures Fatal Strategies.
The Satanic Temple's extracirricular program for public schools. "We prefer to give children an appreciation of the natural wonders surrounding them, not a fear of everlasting other-worldly horrors." Via Metafilter.
During recent rennovations at Emerson High School in Oklahoma City, workers uncovered slate blackboards from 1917, complete with lessons and chalk drawings. Photos and more at NewsOK. Via Metafilter.
"When you’re wandering through a minefield with destructive options that lead to high loan debt and no degree, it’s worth having a map." Washington Monthly attempts a US News & World Report-style ranking of America's worst colleges. Via Metafilter.
Part of Tony Matelli's "New Gravity" exhibit. A Change.org petition is circulating for the statue's removal: "[T]his highly lifelike sculpture has, within just a few hours of its outdoor installation, become a source of apprehension, fear, and triggering thoughts regarding sexual assault for many members of our campus community." More at TPM.
"Somewhat surprisingly, the Library Conduct Code, which forbids smoking, 'mutilating' materials and consuming 'aromatic foods' outside the snack lounge, doesn’t address long-term hibernation." More at The New York Observer.
