by jpitney | Mar 8, 2024 | Higher Education, Israel
Students at Pitzer College have proposed suspending the college’s direct enrollment study abroad program with the University of Haifa, At The Student Life, Ansley Washburn and Annabelle Ink report on one reaction. [On] Wednesday, Feb. 28, TSL received a statement from...
by jpitney | Mar 3, 2024 | Civic Education, Higher Education
Beth Akers and Joe Pitts at AEI: In a nation starved of formative institutions, universities are uniquely positioned to repair our civic fabric—if only they take their responsibilities to our country seriously. As of now, many are not. Now, an entrepreneurial movement...
by jpitney | Feb 29, 2024 | Cancel Culture, Higher Education
Robert P. George: The truth-seeking enterprise precludes the university from punishing the expression of a view on the ground that the ideas expressed are false or harmful. That is because such viewpoint restrictions, as I will call them, tend to hamper both the...
by jpitney | Feb 23, 2024 | Civility, Higher Education, Middle East
Pro-Palestine protesters at the University of Puget Sound shut down a speech by Rep. Derek Kilmer (D-WA). The topic of his planned speech? Civility....
by jpitney | Feb 16, 2024 | Claremont McKenna College, Dreier, Higher Education, Journalism, Journalists
The State of Student Journalism on College Campuses Thu, February 22, 2024 Lunch Program Jameson Mitrovich ’24, Nate Weisberg ’24, Ben Lauren PZ ’25, panelists John J. Pitney, Jr., Moderator Join the Dreier Roundtable for a panel centering the role...
by jpitney | Feb 14, 2024 | Higher Education, Journalism, Journalists
Johanna Alonso at Inside Higher Ed: Jason Brummond is the publisher of one of the largest newspapers in Iowa, The Daily Iowan, an independent student newspaper with an audience of about 50,000 that is run by 100 student employees and a small professional staff. Still,...