July 6, 2009
MTC: "Poverty Studies" - Because There Are Never Enough "Studies"
Charlotte Allen
Here's one of the latest of those interdisciplinary and usually heavily politicized "studies" programs on college campuses: "poverty studies," taking its place alongside black studies, Chicano studies......
May 28, 2009
MTC: On The Right In The Land Of The Tenured Left
Harry Stein
What acid rain is to our irreplaceable forests, lakes and streams, leftist dogma is to American higher education. In every corner of the land, it has turned once-flourishing departments of English and......
November 5, 2008
MTC: Are Colleges "Failure Factories"?
Richard Vedder
Former Commissioner of Education Statistics Mark Schneider has caused a bit of a stir with a paper in which he argues that colleges are getting a free pass on a huge problem - a very high drop-out rat......
September 23, 2008
MTC: Fixing the Anything-Goes Philosophy at Brown
Charlotte Allen
Brown University is famous for having the loosest graduation requirements in the Ivy League. In fact, there are almost no graduation requirements at all, for although Brown undergrads do have to major......