Higher Education
Texas A&M is Right to End Women and Gender Studies
A moment of incendiary dispute? Let’s take a closer look. In 1971, I helped found the first chapter of the National Organization for Women in the Southwest. Back then, rape was close to a free crime — prosecution depended…
A Decade of Soft Power: How Foreign Adversaries Quietly Entered Texas’s Classrooms
Recent concerns surrounding a planned Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School District (GCISD) event have ignited a broader and long-overdue conversation about who—and what—local officials and leaders are allowing into Texas…
The University of Austin Shows What Education Should Be
The inaugural Austin Union event, back in March 2024, featured a debate on the question: Is the United States Constitution broken? Later that evening, University of Austin (UATX) hosted A Conversation on Free Speech, Civil…
Brandeis Is Doing Something About Grade Inflation. Will Texas Be Next?
This is a good-news, bad-news tale for American higher education. The good news: A top-tier university has finally taken serious aim at the epidemic of grade hyperinflation. The bad news: We have fallen so far that even elite…
The Wisconsin Higher-Ed Reform Model
Progress achievable in a purple state (This piece was originally published by the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal.) Provisions in a budget passed in the Badger State this previous summer require that faculty at…
Game over: How a professor bungled the facts of Wisconsin school choice
From history to poverty to treating kids like wildlife, errors compound Bungling facts is bad enough. The harm’s far greater when you’re paid by taxpayers to profess them at Wisconsin’s flagship state university. A case in…
Islamism, Texas, and the Unholy Alliance
Islamist influence in Texas remains a real and ongoing concern. For more than a decade, money has continued to flow into the state from non-profits, non-governmental organizations (NGO), disaster relief groups, and even from…
Majority of Wisconsin kids fall short in math as legislators consider fix
Number of UW math degrees plummeting in age of AI As math proficiency continues to decline in Wisconsin schools, the Legislature is considering a plan to improve numeracy, or the ability to work with numbers in daily life.…
Republican candidates join nationwide scrutiny of tenure
Badger Institute has argued for more leeway to lay off professors Republican candidates for governor are joining politicians across the country who are increasingly skeptical of tenure guarantees for professors. U.S. Rep. Tom…
Most UW System schools’ enrollments are stagnant as tech colleges flourish
While undergraduate enrollment in most University of Wisconsin System schools trends downward, there has been a dramatic increase in students choosing the state’s technical colleges since the pandemic. Historically tied to…
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