In the May issue of Academic Questions, published by the National Association of Scholars, is this item: A large number of higher education employment ads have been including the following language—“We invite applications from qualified candidates who share our commitment to diversity”. An NAS member who drew attention to this development wonders if that wording […]

“We have a responsibility to make sure our higher education system continues to meet our nation’s needs for an educated and competitive workforce for the 21st century.”—Margaret Spellings, Secretary of Education. In this excerpt from the announcement of the Secretary’s appointment of a commission to study and make recommendations on the future of American higher […]

If you think health care costs are out of control, check out their comparison with college tuition–over the past twenty years, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, price growth of 191% for medical care and 289% for college tuition! With the growing trend in deregulation of tuition and costs among the nation’s top state-supported […]

The domination of the left in the higher reaches of our elite institutions of higher education may have reached a tipping point with the eruption of Ward Churchill at Colorado University and his characterization of the 9-11 bombers as “combat teams”, the Pentagon victims “military targets”, and the World Trade Center victims “little Eichmanns”. This […]

Former Houstonian John Moores, currently Chairman of the University of California Board of Regents, hit upon an age-old problem in a recent op/ed essay, one that has vexed any number of Texas Higher Education Coordinating Boards and “blue ribbon commissions”—how to bring strategic order to the State’s system of higher education. There have been various […]

“Since the 1960’s, anti-Americanism has flourished on college campuses, in Hollywood and among the chattering class. Anti-Americanism is the conviction that our history is one long chronicle of crimes against humanity—slavery, segregation, dispossession of the Indians, exploitation of labor and suppression of dissent. It is blind to America’s greatness—to our unparalleled contributions to the advancement […]

Incredibly, the Board of Regents at Texas A&M University seems determined to “gerrymander” its definition of diversity in admissions, despite the Hopwood decision and clear evidence that preferential race-based admissions and lowered standards are the wrong approaches. What else can explain the recent approval of a plan to expand the top 10% automatic admission rule […]

The American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) was founded in 1995 under the leadership of Lynne Cheney and Joe Lieberman to promote improved academic standards and greater accountability in the higher education community. Ms. Cheney, long one of my heroes for her tireless work in education and the arts, now serves as ACTA’s Chairman […]

In Pursuit of Excellence in Higher Ed Retiring University of Texas System Chancellor Bill Cunningham has floated an interesting plan to restructure and enhance Texas’ system of higher education, which in my opinion is long overdue. My six-year tenure as a regent of one of our state institutions convinced me that, among other structural problems, […]