To the editor: In “The Finish of the Academy?” (September 19, 2024), Mark A. Boyer rightfully calls consideration to the risks of performative, one-sided activism in academia—activism that prioritizes symbolism over substantive change. The identical dynamic is enjoying out within the halls of Congress, the place the dialog round antisemitism has devolved into political posturing…
A university scholar will not be the face Individuals image when they give thought to starvation, however meals insecurity has lengthy been an alarming disaster in increased schooling. Nationally, practically one in 4 undergraduate college students, and one in eight graduate college students, report low or very low meals safety, based mostly on federal definitions….
In January, pro-Palestinian protesters on Columbia College’s campus mentioned they’d been sprayed with a dangerous chemical. College students had been hospitalized. No arrests had been reported. Katherine Franke, Columbia’s James L. Dohr Professor of Legislation, advised Inside Larger Ed that the left-leaning radio and tv newscast Democracy Now! reached out to her in regards to…
The Home Guidelines Committee has shot down an try so as to add laws increasing the Pell Grant to workforce coaching applications that run between eight to 14 weeks to a must-pass nationwide safety and navy invoice. Sponsors of the Bipartisan Workforce Pell Act sought to connect the invoice as an modification to the Nationwide…
Following an explosive listening to in December about campus antisemitism, Home Republicans have been ramping up their investigations of America’s faculties and universities. However greater than six months later, the Congressional scrutiny has been targeting a small variety of establishments that don’t characterize the hundreds of schools and universities in the US and solely enroll…
The Biden administration’s new income-driven compensation (IDR) plan often called Saving on a Helpful Training (SAVE) is “much more beneficiant and dear” than what Congress supposed when it handed the regulation authorizing IDR, argues a brand new report from the Protection of Freedom Institute, a conservative suppose tank. Eleven states are presently suing to dam…