by jstewardfree | Oct 17, 2012 | Grey Matter
By Richard Vetter | Our universities have become graduate factories. Few students go to college to become better people these days, they go to get money. Richard Vedder spells out this malaise over at the “Minding the Campus” blog. Why do students go to...
by jstewardfree | Sep 18, 2012 | Grey Matter
by USA Today | A Rhode Island school district banned traditional “father-daughter” and “mother-son” activities as discriminatory, the Providence Journal reports. Read...
by jstewardfree | Sep 17, 2012 | Grey Matter
By Prof. Jack Lewis | I am Charlotte Simmons, makes his point with very little padding in place. He aims for both the head and the stomach and seems to hit them both. I will not spoil the story for you, which takes over 700 pages to tell, but I do believe his point...
by jstewardfree | Sep 13, 2012 | Grey Matter
By Edward B. Fiske | There are certainly some good reasons for some people to take the U.S. News college rankings seriously. Presidents of schools that went up a notch or two can trumpet the fact to their trustees while noting modestly, of course, that “we...
by jstewardfree | Aug 24, 2012 | Grey Matter
by Robert P. George | Nathan Harden’s new book “Sex and God at Yale” will be of interest to anyone who is concerned about the moral state of campus culture at colleges and universities in the US. Read more…....
