by jpitney | Sep 22, 2021 | Claremont McKenna College, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, Free Speech, Higher Education
From the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE): The top-ranked college in the 2021 Campus Free Speech Rankings, Claremont McKenna College (CMC), had an overall score of 72.27. CMC eclipsed last year’s top-ranked college, the University of Chicago, by...
by jpitney | Sep 7, 2021 | Higher Education, Polarization
From the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education: Scholars have long been targeted for sanction by ideological adversaries. However, some worrying trends are emerging.[1] The current research reveals that since 2015 targeting incidents are on the rise and are...
by jpitney | Jul 21, 2021 | Appropriations, Congress, Higher Education
Alexis Gravely at Inside Higher Ed: The House Appropriations Committee has approved more than $272 million in funding through earmarks that would go to projects at 228 colleges and universities, according to an analysis conducted by Inside Higher Ed. The earmarks span...
by jpitney | Aug 13, 2020 | Higher Education, Veterans
Barrett Y. Bogue and Dr. Andrew Morse at the Center for a New American Security: Using a semi-structured qualitative interview design of currently serving higher education leaders and practitioners with prior military service, this paper identifies the reasons why...
by jpitney | Mar 7, 2020 | Higher Education
The Harvard Crimson reports on a poll of the university’s faculty: An overwhelming majority of faculty members who took the survey broadly characterized their political leanings as “liberal” or “very liberal” — forty-one percent of faculty responded they are...
by jpitney | Dec 17, 2019 | Higher Education
The Pepperdine School of Public Policy Washington, DC Policy Scholars Program explores topics typically untouched by Washington, DC-based policy studies programs, pushing its participants to better understand the vital interconnection between culture, history, and...
