universities

Universities should be deeply embarrassed that it has come to this. The President of the United States uses the financial big stick.

John Nothdurft and Donny Kendal present episode #127 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from the American Conservative Union, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, and the Independent Institute.

The facts are pretty damning: The Ivy League and other selective schools are bastions of privileged students.

A course offered at Butler University, a private higher-education institution in Indianapolis, Indiana, promises to teach students the reasons Donald Trump won the 2016 election and promises to give students “strategies for resistance.”

Much has been rightly said about recent attacks on conservative, libertarian, and other non-leftist speakers on college and university campuses around the country.

Students challenged to weigh opposing perspectives and make a cogent argument? Isn’t that close to the heart of what we call “higher education,” or has that ethos disappeared along with the silly fads?

Can American higher education be salvaged or is it doomed to collapse? Dr. Richard Bishirjian discusses the topic from the Heartland directly.

A “culture of censorship” has come down upon universities across the United States, destroying any hope for engaging ideas in exchange for safe spaces.

Education Project Manager Lennie Jarratt was interviewed on the Mike Seigel online radio show during the 10 pm to 11 pm hour, about Kellogg Community College in Battle Creek, Michigan had several students arrested for handing out pocket US Constitutions.

“The Revolution devours its children,” wrote French royalist Jacques Mallet du Pan in 1793, but in the case of the American left, the children are now devouring their masters, both literally and figuratively. For the progressive war on free speech is nowhere more evident than on campus, where it has taken on sinister aspects completely apart from Title IX, about which we wrote in Part Two of this series.

What is happening on our college campuses? Are college administrators going to wait until there is a terrible tragedy before taking aggressive, appropriate action to stop the inappropriate behavior of students who exhibit radical behavior and cross the line of what is acceptable and safe? Judging recent examples, there is reason to be concerned that some students, possibly some of whom are under the influence of outside radical groups, or some of whom may be negatively influenced by professors, might eventually allow their emotions to evolve into tragic actions.

In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, Rachelle Peterson, Director of Research Projects at the National Association of Scholars (NAS), joins H. Sterling Burnett, managing editor of Environment & Climate News to discuss the divest movement on college campuses.

Government ought to rely on unbiased scientific findings when making policy decisions regarding important issues. But unfortunately, many government agencies undermine the scientific process by using it for their own purposes rather than to discover the truth, a reality President Dwight Eisenhower pointed out in his farewell address more than a half-century ago. The situation has only become worse since then, with government funding of tobacco studies providing a vivid example.