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Universities Are Expertocracies In Minature
We have been warning you for well over a decade that what happens at universities does not stay at universities. All of us laugh and marvel at the great idiocies,…
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The Educational Empire Strikes Back
The new Administration struck the Educational Empire hard and fast. They blazed "Take out the DIE or lose federal funds." Then the Administration slashed the Empire's overhead, the ridiculous tax…
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New Effort To Fix Universities Just Dropped: If You Are A Colleague, Please Consider Signing
A group of scholars (of which I'm one) have begun a new effort to correct troubles of American universities. We call this "The Path to Prosperity". We're working on a…
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Women Celebrate As Their Chance To Become A Victim On Campus Just Skyrocketed
Women---not all but a good number of women, that is---hunger to be Victims. This allows them both status, for ours is increasingly a culture that holds Victims in the highest…
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Fixing College: Hit Them In The Money, Replace Their Prestige
If you're short of time, and know about the past---which as of last week is now historical---failures of higher education, skip When It Was It Bad and jump right to…
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Student Protests To End After Finals: TWID
I changed the title to put TWID = The Week In Doom at the end. I did this long ago, too, and found it answered. Hilarity Ensues Students, by definition,…
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The World’s Easiest Sociological Prediction Has Been Verified
We've discussed the Expansion Team Effect many times. I'm always embarrassed to do so because it's so simple it's a truism. What's weird about it is that, presented one way,…
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Even The Woke Say Science Is Petering Out
One of my Inside-The-Academic-Beast contacts told me recently that the new crop of professors hired at a major well known university were unimaginative, nice and, most damning of all, boring.…
