By Betsy DeVos – wsj.com – April 2, 2023 This isn’t the only scandal on that campus worthy of attention and outrage. The school also faces a criminal case of false sexual-assault accusations. Both instances were complicated by the incessant buildup of nonteaching bureaucrats. Stanford now employs more administrators than it enrolls undergrads—focused on an agenda, not education. Last month...

The most recent shout-down debacle at Stanford’s law school, one of many such recent sordid episodes, prompts the question: “Who owns our universities?” The law students who are in residence for three…

By Richard Vedder – wsj.com – March 16, 2023 American higher education is in crisis. The rise of diversity, equity and inclusion bureaucracies and a growing intolerance for dissent has spurred political battles for control of campus decision-making in North Carolina, Texas, Florida, and elsewhere. The fights point to a fundamental question: Who “owns” a university? Perhaps the question is better...

By: Frederick M. Hess – nationalreview.com – March 16, 2023 Lately there’s been much hand-wringing punditry about the education “culture wars,” with the mainstream media blaming right-wing extremists for heated fights over social studies, school boards, DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion), library books, and what-have-you. But what if right-wing extremism is mostly a figment of the mainstream media’s collective imagination? And...

A response to Heather Mac Donald’s provocative new essay on the “mass nervous breakdown on campus.”

By: Jeffrey Blehar – nationalreview.com – March 22, 2023 Those who haven’t kept up to speed on the increasingly weird scenes inside the gold mine of America’s elite law schools may have missed the latest outrage from the denizens of Stanford Law School, where Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Kyle Duncan had his Federalist Society address shouted down by a howling mob of...

In his song “Anything Goes,” Cole Porter mused, “Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose… Anything Goes.” Source: Streaming Media’s Favorite Word | Parents Television Council

Like a lot of parents, Cindy Martin didn’t realize how out of control the book situation had gotten in their local schools. When a friend told her there was por Source: Mama Bears Claw Back into Schools’ Free Speech Fight

The U.S. Department of Education announced its intention to rescind the “Free Inquiry Rule,” which was designed to fix the pressuring and discriminating against religious student groups.

Students at Stanford Law School staged a protest against Dean Jenny Martinez on Monday after she apologized for the disruption of an event featuring federal appellate court Judge Kyle Duncan last week.