On the Campus
As news consumers across the nation and the globe are aware, on Monday, September 26, the Rhode Island Board of Governors for Higher Education approved a policy granting in-state tuition rates to illegal immigrants who attended local high schools. As recently as this spring, the General Assembly explicitly declined to join the twelve other states…
In discussion of in-state tuition for illegal immigrants, commenter Russ illustrates why public debate so often gets stuck in conflicting assertions and animus: …dividing the total operating costs of the University of Rhode Island by the number of full-time equivalent students suggests that the university has to make $20,615 per student. Wrong, but hey let’s…
Last night, with the approval of RI’s chief executive, Lincoln Chafee, the Board of Governors of Higher Education decided to act in lieu of the General Assembly and implement a policy of offering illegal immigrants in-state tuition rates for the state’s public universities. That makes Rhode Island just the fourteenth state to be so generous,…
An interesting tidbit from over the weekend is that college professors appear to grade differently based on political affiliation: We study grading outcomes associated with professors in an elite university in the United States who were identified — using voter registration records from the county where the university is located — as either Republicans or…
Readers of National Review will be interested to know that the Providence College Republicans are bringing the magazine’s resident pessimist, John Derbyshire, to campus tonight at 7:30 (112 Slavin Center). It should make for an interesting talk.
After much, sometimes heated, debate, Columbia University has elected to allow ROTC back on campus. Good. Now, Brown University finds itself increasingly out of the Ivy mainstream, though they’re currently reviewing the policy: [Dean of the College Katherine] Bergeron also discussed her attendance at the Ivy Plus conference — a consortium of universities, including members…
Undercover exposer of left-wing organizations — NPR most recently — James O’Keefe will be speaking to the Providence College Republicans, tonight at 7:30 in Moore Hall II. I’m not positive that I’ll be able to make it, but I’m certainly going to try.
Given the video that Marc posted yesterday, showing a pro-union demonstrator issuing what might be termed homophobic threats, I can’t help but wonder whether this story is evidence of additional union rallies on the University of Rhode Island campus: Angered by a succession of incidents involving hateful epithets and vandalism, University of Rhode Island President…
One hears in this op-ed by David Mabe the thinking behind centralization’s inevitable failure over time: Even in these times of high unemployment, forecasts of labor shortages are becoming more prevalent. New England has long boasted a highly educated population relative to other parts of the country, but the retirement of Baby Boomers and net…
…because it seems to in many places, but according to a characterization put forth by Dan Berrett of the online publication Inside Higher Ed, at least one local institution seems to be dragging its heels…Officials at Brown University did not go as far as others in predicting a return of ROTC. Marisa Quinn, vice president…
