On the Campus
Colleges, journalists, and activists should consider the Trump admin’s memo as an attempt to broker peace with the culture.
At least more than they believe in the importance of their ideology? These are the questions that come to mind when I see somebody like University of Rhode Island President Marc Parlange say something like this: “When universities falter, the consequences are not confined to the institution,” he continued. “Patients go untreated. Communities lose access…
This is a telling result for people’s opinion about the value of college degrees: Many factors explain why those placing a high value on college degrees have fallen by more than half, including: When everybody has a degree, degrees are less valuable as professional differentiators. When one reason everybody has a degree is that colleges…
The Brown Daily Herald has released its annual survey of first-year students. The results are about what one would expect. Only 6.8% of students identify as “very or somewhat conservative,” for example. The percentage identifying as something other than “straight,” meanwhile, is more than four times higher, at 28.8%. Of the conservatives, 65% are Christian, although…
I recently came across this fascinating chart from a 2023 article in The Brown Daily Herald, reporting that “LGBTQ+ student self-identification [had] doubled at Brown since 2010”: Three things jump out about these results: Self-identification as homosexual has not changed all that much, compared with other categories. Bisexuals are the second-largest group by a large margin. Simply…
Honestly, imagine that this had to be forced on Brown University: The irony is the Trump administration may very well be saving these universities from themselves, although they’ll almost certainly snap back to the lunacy at the first opportunity unless the forces of sanity and common sense reassert themselves in a powerful way in the next…
Ashley Kalus is right that the video she links here makes a much more persuasive case for help with student loans than simple demands to be given money: The problem is that sympathy for and agreement about the symptoms of the problem is not a solution. In this case, the solution is to get government…
John DePetro and Justin Katz review political stories in the news.
Some good news came with the end of the spring term at Rhode Island College, this year: A variety of sparsely engaged programs will no longer be offered at the public university. According to Gender and Women’s Studies Director Leslie Schuster: There are 20 majors that are being eliminated primarily in arts and sciences, Gender…
John DePetro and Justin Katz notice some of the ways in which Democrats leverage pain and suffering.
