universities
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Our failing education system is leading us down a dangerous road.
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Education
The Perpetually Offended are Coming to Your Workplace
by Lennie Jarratt and Chris Talgo February 11, 2020The perpetually offended movement has led to the creation of more than 200 Bias Response Teams on college campuses.
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Education
Politicians Should Not Enforce Intellectual Diversity at Universities
by Stephen Hicks April 2, 2019Universities should be deeply embarrassed that it has come to this. The President of the United States uses the financial big stick.
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Budgets/TaxesEnvironment/EnergyFeaturedPodcast
In The Tank (ep127) – CPAC, Worst Colleges for Free Speech, and LoveGov
by Donald Kendal February 16, 2018John 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.
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The facts are pretty damning: The Ivy League and other selective schools are bastions of privileged students.
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EducationFeaturedUncategorized
Butler University Offers Outrageous Anti-Trump Course, Provides ‘Strategies for Resistance’
by Justin Haskins and Katie Clancy May 3, 2017A 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.”
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Education
Campus Collectivism and the Counter-Revolution Against Liberty
by Richard Ebeling April 25, 2017Much has been rightly said about recent attacks on conservative, libertarian, and other non-leftist speakers on college and university campuses around the country.
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EducationFeatured
Universities Invent New Devices to Stifle Speech and Protect Snowflakes
by Robert Holland April 11, 2017Students 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?
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Education
Will a Resurrection of American Higher Education Emerge From its Demise?
by Nancy Thorner March 28, 2017Can American higher education be salvaged or is it doomed to collapse? Dr. Richard Bishirjian discusses the topic from the Heartland directly.
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A “culture of censorship” has come down upon universities across the United States, destroying any hope for engaging ideas in exchange for safe spaces.
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Education
Heartland on the Radio: Lennie Jarratt Discusses Students at Kellogg Univeristy Arrest for Handing Out Constitutions
by Lennie Jarratt February 1, 2017Education 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.
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FeaturedLegal Affairs
The Progressive War on Free Speech – Part Three
by David Applegate April 20, 2016“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.
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EducationFeatured
Campus Radicals Attempt to Stifle Free Speech
by Nancy Thorner and Bonnie O'Neil March 9, 2016What 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.