HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Has Higher Education Become An Engine of Inequality? Why would you expect a system composed of academics — who are the most exquisitely status-conscious people on Earth — to reduce inequality?
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HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: At UCLA, a defeat for “studies” departments at the hands of “academically conservative liberal” faculty. Good thing it was a secret ballot. Plus, from the comments: “Groseclose is suggesting that this... Read Post
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: An Academic Auto-da-fe? This seems correct, and indicates that there’s an intellectual, as well as a financial bubble in place: Sociologists tend to be political and cultural liberals, leftists, and p... Read Post
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: From the Chronicle of Higher Education comes a story that should make every mediocre academic in this country shudder in fear. Mark Bauerlein has looked under the hood of the “research” that professor... Read Post