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Category Archives: Academia
The Jewish Edge
Adults with post-secondary degrees (global) according to Pew: Jews 61% Christians 20% Unaff 16% Buddhists 12% Hindus 10% Muslims 8%
WP: Surge in foreign students may be crowding Americans out of elite colleges
Washington Post: U.S. applicants to elite schools are largely unaware of the growth of international enrollment and what it could mean for their chances, said Bruce Vinik, an admission consultant in Montgomery County, Md. He said the subject could draw … Continue reading
Andrew Gelman: What has happened down here is the winds have changed
Andrew Gelman writes: To understand Fiske’s attitude, it helps to realize how fast things have changed. As of five years ago—2011—the replication crisis was barely a cloud on the horizon. Here’s what I see as the timeline of important events: … Continue reading
Campus PC: It’s the Dumb Students
Robert Weissberg writes: The Social Justice Warriors and thin-skinned “communities of color” among others will continue to throttle lively classroom conversations and any professor who insists that matters have improved, still risks his career. The reason for this dismal prognosis … Continue reading
A Rape On Campus
Wikipedia: “A Rape on Campus” is a now-retracted Rolling Stone article by Sabrina Erdely originally published on November 19, 2014, which claimed to describe a group sexual assault at the University of Virginia (UVA). It has since been discredited and … Continue reading
How a casino tycoon is trying to combat an exploding pro-Palestinian movement on campuses
Different groups have different interests. I see nothing diabolical in being pro or anti-Israel, pro or anti Islam, pro or anti-Jewish, black, gay, etc. American college campuses are not moral sewers because they are more anti-Israel than other parts of … Continue reading
The end of Baylor’s Art Briles
ESPN: “Art Briles has talked about his “nonjudgmental” program that wanted “mavericks” and prided itself on giving second chances. That attitude, mixed with indifference toward victims, did him in.” How do you think he turned around Baylor’s football program? By … Continue reading
Hard Truths About Race on Campus
By JONATHAN HAIDT and LEE JUSSIM: …None of this means that we are doomed to discriminate by race. A 2001 study by Robert Kurzban of the University of Pennsylvania and colleagues in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences … Continue reading
Will Larry Summers Take the High Road or the Low Road in Fighting Political Correctness?
Steve Sailer writes: As I’ve been saying for a long time, the crucial “swing vote” not in numbers but in influence are ethnocentric center-left Jews, such as Larry Summers. For example, the continued growth of political correctness, diversity, and, lately, … Continue reading
UC Regents need a history lesson
David Myers is a UCLA professor of Jewish studies who is way on the left, but I usually find myself agreeing with most everything he publishes in the Jewish Journal, including his latest: One can only hope that the Regents, … Continue reading