SOURCES & FURTHER READING  | WINTER 2018

 

 

1  Life After College

 

Sources

Unprepared and Confused (Inside Higher Ed)

A College Student Embraces Career Readiness, Takes It Into The Workplace (Forbes)

College Leaders: Preparing Students for Careers Isn’t Top Priority

(Education Week)

Purdue Initiative Taps Portfolium to Boost Students’ Career Readiness (Campus Technology)

 

Further Reading

New Survey Says Only a Third of College Students Feel Prepared for Job Market and Workplace (EdSurge)

“Career Ready” Out of High School? Why the Nation Needs to Let Go of That Myth (Salon)

Why Aren’t College Students Using Career Services? (Atlantic)

Too Soon to Declare Victory on Career Readiness (Education Strategy Group)

 

 

2  Identity Politics Takes Some Hits

 

Sources

Speaking as a … (New York Review of Books)

Notable & Quotable: Jonathan Haidt on Identity Politics (Manhattan Institute)

An Interview with John McWhorter About Politics and Protest (Heterodox Academy)

 

Further Reading

Do Universities Take a Stand Against Nationalism? (University World News)

Lorde of the Flies: Why College Students Reject Reason (Wall Street Journal)

The Death of Self-Restraint (Wall Street Journal)

What Is the Basis for Human Equality? (Commonweal)

Strangled by Identity (National Affairs)

Can Liberalism Change? (Public Discourse)

Ta-Nehisi Coates vs. Cornel West Hardly Qualifies as Debate (Wall Street Journal)

 

 

3  Travesty for Michigan State

 

Sources

Judge Says 265 People Have Come Forward to Say They Were Victims of Larry Nassar (Chicago Tribune)

After Nassar Conviction, Michigan State Goes on Trial (Chronicle of Higher Education)

Michigan State President Simon Resigns Amid Nassar Scandal (Wall Street Journal)

Many Want Michigan State’s President to Resign. Here’s Why She Still Has Campus Support
(Chronicle of Higher Education)

Former Governor John Engler Named as Interim Michigan State University President
(Wall Street Journal)

Top Faculty Committee Upset With Michigan State’s Choice of Interim Leader
(Chronicle of Higher Education)

Michigan State to Name Interim President as Investigation Heats Up (Chronicle of Higher Education)

 

Further Reading

Michigan State President Resigns After Torrent of Anger Over Nassar (Chronicle of Higher Education)

The President of Michigan State University Has Resigned in the Wake of the Larry Nassar Scandal (Time)

Michigan State Athletic Director to Retire in Wake of Sex-Abuse Scandal (Wall Street Journal)

How an Army of Survivors Toppled a President (Chronicle of Higher Education)

 

 

4 “Elitist” Is Beginning to Hurt

 

Sources

University Presidents: We’ve been Blindsided (Politico)

College of the Ozarks President Jerry C. Davis Addresses U.S. Department of Education Summit (Springfield News-Leader)

Do Former Top Government Officials Make Good College Presidents? It Depends (Education Dive)

 

Further Reading

It’s Time for Me to Go (Chronicle of Higher Education)

Appointments, Resignations, Deaths (Chronicle of Higher Education)

 

 

5  Whom Does the Endowment Tax Really Hurt?

 

Sources

Trump Signs Tax Cut Bill, First Big Legislative Win (NBC News)

The GOP Tax Bill’s Disconcerting Raid on University Endowments (National Review)

A Hedge Fund That Has a University (Wall Street Journal)

How Rich Universities Waste Their Endowments (Washington Monthly)

Which Colleges Will Have to Pay Taxes on Their Endowment? Your Guess Might Not Be Right

(Wall Street Journal)

 

Further Reading

Roundup: Debating the Endowment Tax (Philanthropy Daily)

Leave College Endowments Alone (Wall Street Journal)

The New Tax on Harvard (Politico)

 

 

6  Some Endowment Data

 

Sources

A “Thoroughly Satisfactory and Permanent Remedy”: The Twentieth Century Invention of the American University Endowment (History of Philanthropy)

Endowment Returns Rebound After a Dismal 2016, but the Long-Term Outlook Is Cloudy
  (Chronicle of Higher Education)

College Endowments Rose 12.2% in Fiscal 2017, Reversing Decline (Wall Street Journal)

Harvard Endowment Chief Pushed for Steeper Devaluation of Assets (Wall Street Journal)

 

 

7 The Endowment Tax and Berea College

 

Sources

About (Berea College)

Tax-Law Spat Over a Kentucky College Prompts Charges of Favoritism (Wall Street Journal)

Amid Congressional Fight, No Tax Exemption for Wealthy College Providing
   Free Education to Poor Students (Education Dive)

Kentucky College Gets Tax Exemption in Budget Deal (Wall Street Journal)

 

 

8  Rochester President Resigns After Controversial Handling of

     Sexual Harassment Complaints

 

Source

University President Resigns Following Uproar (Wall Street Journal)

 

 

9  Who Is Jordan Peterson?

 

Sources

Drawing Criticism, Jordan Peterson Lectures at “Free Speech” Initiative (Harvard Crimson)

Jordan B. Peterson (YouTube)

Jordan B. Peterson (Twitter)

Who’s Afraid of Jordan Peterson? (Wall Street Journal)

Yale’s Most Popular Class Ever: Happiness (New York Times)

Polarization Is an Old American Story (Wall Street Journal)

The Intellectual Grenades of Charles Murray (Weekly Standard)

 

Further Reading

Jordan Peterson, Hero (American Conservative)

What’s So Dangerous About Jordan Peterson? (Chronicle of Higher Education)

Myths, True and Otherwise (Washington Free Beacon)

Walking the Tightrope Between Chaos and Order—An Interview With Jordan B Peterson (Quillette)

 

 

10  Violence Revisited: The Charlottesville Reports

 

Sources

Charlottesville Response to White Supremacist Rally Is Sharply Criticized in Report (Washington Post)

Inside UVa’s Response to a Chaotic White-Power Rally (Chronicle of Higher Education)

Report Faults U. of Virginia on Response to White-Supremacist Rally (Chronicle of Higher Education)

Auditors Reviewed How UVa’s Police Prepared for White Supremacists. They Didn’t Like What They Found (Chronicle of Higher Education)

 

Further Reading

Report Calls Charlottesville Police Response to Deadly Protest “Inadequate and Disconnected” 
   (Wall Street Journal)

When Speech Meets Hate (University of Virginia Magazine)

How Free Speech Lost in Charlottesville  (Wall Street Journal)

 

 

11  Social Clubs and Fraternities: Drinking, Hazing, Sexual Assault, and Death

 

Sources

Harvard Moves to End Final Clubs (Finally) (Wall Street Journal)

Fraternal Social Activities Suspended at University of Michigan (Washington Post)

Ohio State Suspends Most Fraternities (Washington Post)

Criminal Charges Recommended in Florida State Student’s Fraternity Hazing Death (Time)

Pi Delta Psi Fraternity Banned From Pennsylvania (Time)

 

Further Reading

Is There a Smarter Way to Think About Sexual Assault on Campus? (The New Yorker)

Final Steps on Final Clubs? (Harvard Magazine)

After a Hazing Death, a Judge Bans a Fraternity From Pennsylvania (Washington Post)

“Those Families Are Changed Forever.” A Deadly Year in Fraternity Hazing Comes to a Close (Time)

New Charges Brought in Penn State Hazing Death After Deleted Video Is Recovered (Washington Post)

An MIT Student’s Tragic Suicide Has Some Asking Whether Schools Can Be Held Responsible (Boston.com)

Will Greek Crackdown Change Anything? (Inside Higher Education)

 

 

12  Mark Bray: Anti-fascist Academic

 

Source

The Button-Down Anarchist (Chronicle of Higher Education)

 

Further Reading

Antifa vs. Milo Yiannopoulos: Who Won? (Salon)

Watch: Violent Alt-Left Antifa Extremists Try to Shut Down Jacob Rees-Mogg Speech (Breitbart.com)

Facebook Posts About Antifa Get Tennessee Guard Sergeant Discipline: Report (FoxNews.com)

 

 

13  Most Big Public Universities Fail to Track Suicides

 

Sources

Most Big Public Colleges Don’t Track Suicides, AP Finds (APNews.com)

Suicide Data (Inside Higher Ed)

 

Further Reading

Student Suicide Investigation; DeVos Proposes New Student Loan Rule (NPR)

“I Didn’t Know How to Ask for Help”: Stories of Students With Anxiety (Chronicle of Higher Education)

Facing Anxiety (Chronicle of Higher Education)

 

 

14  “The Case Against Education”

 

Sources

The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money
   (Princeton University Press)

The World Might Be Better Off Without College for Everyone (Atlantic)

How Could a Professor Make “The Case Against Education”? (Martin Center)

 

Further Reading

Deciding Against the Paper Chase (Wall Street Journal)

 

 

15   Is DeVos Is Swimming Upstream?

 

Sources

Academic Freedom and Free Speech on Campus (Academe)

Under Trump, a Hard Test for Howard University  (The New Yorker)

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Is Sued Over Sexual Assault Guidance (New York Times)

 

Further Reading

The Biggest Problem for State Higher-Ed Policy? Federal Higher-Ed Policy

   (Chronicle of Higher Education)

Is DeVos Devaluing Degrees? (Inside Higher Ed)

Betsy DeVos Speaks at the University Of Baltimore’s Commencement, to Protest and Applause      (Washington Post)

 

 

16  Is the Future of Higher Ed the Future of America?

 

Sources

The Future of Undergraduate Education, the Future of America (American Academy of Arts & Sciences)

A Call to Reform Undergraduate Education (Inside Higher Ed)

 

Further Reading

A University Education (Amazon.com)

The Future of Undergraduate Education (ACUE Community)

 

 

17  Is Social Media a “Destructive Fad”?

 

Sources

Meet the Members of iGen, and Help Them Get Off Their Phones (Chronicle of Higher Education)

The End of the Social Era Can’t Come Soon Enough (Vanity Fair)

 

 

18  Against the Grain: Three New Books Challenge Accepted Wisdom

 

Sources

In Praise of Hierarchy (Wall Street Journal)

The Great and the Good (Wall Street Journal)

A Radical Critique of Modernity in ‘Why Liberalism Failed’ (Wall Street Journal)

Is Civilization Overrated? On a Bit of Rousseauvian Nonsense Taken Up by the Modern Academy
   (The New Criterion)

Paleo Politics: What Made Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers Give Up Freedom for Civilization?
   (The New Republic)

 

 

19  On a Megabyte Roll

 

Sources

New Analysis Offers Insight Into What Prospective Students Want (Education Dive)

Some Colleges See Online Programs as a Way to Stay Afloat (Education Dive)

Gov. Brown Proposes California's First Fully Online Public Commnity College (Los Angeles Times)

Return of the MOOCs - An Innovative Nonprofit Shows How Internet-based Education Can Help Contain the Spiraling Costs of College (City Journal)

Has UMUC Turned Enrollment Woes Around? (Inside Higher Ed)

Faculty Members at One More University Push Back at Online Programs (Chronicle of Higher Education)

 

Further Reading

In New Budget Proposal, California Higher Ed Gets Modest Funding and a Big Online College
   (Chronicle of Higher Education)

Big Online Community College in California's Budget Plan (Education Dive)

Jerry Brown Proposes New Online-Only Public College to Help Working Adults Succeed
   (San Francisco Chronicle)

An MIT Dean Planned a University With No Classrooms. Here’s Where It Stands

   (Chronicle of Higher Education)

Offspring of Purdue’s Controversial Kaplan Purchase Now Has a Name (Chronicle of Higher Education)

Net Neutrality Rollback Concerns Colleges (Inside Higher Ed)

Prediction: 2018 Will See More Blended Learning (American Council on Education)

 

 

20  Student Loan Defaults on the Rise

 

Sources

Nearly 5 Million Americans in Default on Student Loans (Wall Street Journal)

What We Now Know About Who Struggles With Student Loan Debt (Washington Post)

Where Student Loan Debt Is a Real Problem (Washington Post)

Two Student Loan Studies Everyone Missed (Brookings Institute)

Trump Administration Seeks Curbs on Student-Loan Forgiveness (Wall Street Journal)

Education Department May Slash by 60 Percent the Loan Relief It Gives to Defrauded Students

   (Chicago Tribune)

Trump Administration Looks Beyond Traditional Servicers for Student-Lending Help

   (Wall Street Journal)

 

Further Reading

The Furor Over Student Loan Forgiveness (Martin Center)

Betsy DeVos Hit With Two Lawsuits in One Day Over Backlog of Student Debt Relief Claims

   (Washington Post)

Elizabeth Warren Wants the Education Dept.’s Use of Earnings Data Investigated (Washington Post)

Pressure Mounts for DeVos to Address the Backlog of 87,000 Student Debt Relief Claims
   (Washington Post)

Education Dept. Awards Debt-Collection Contract to Company with Ties to DeVos (Washington Post)

Partial Relief for Defrauded Borrowers (Inside Higher Ed)

Trump Administration Resumes Forgiving Loans of Ex-Corinthian Students (Wall Street Journal)

The Rise and Fall of a Law-School Empire Fueled by Federal Loans (Wall Street Journal)

Most Former Corinthian Campuses to Wind Down Operations (Wall Street Journal)

 

 

21   A Showdown Over Immigration

 

Sources

University Presidents Call on Congress to Find “Narrowly Tailored Solution” for Dreamers

   (Chronicle of Higher Education)

Let’s Not Play Politics With the Lives of Dreamers (Washington Post)

Travel Bans and Deportations Threats: How a Hostile Political Climate Is Impacting International Faculty Hiring, Collaboration (Education Dive)

Pelosi Sets Record with 8-hour Marathon Speech on DACA (CNN)

 

Further Reading

Trump Administration Forced to Renew DACA Permits as Furor Over the President’s Immigration Slur Persists (Los Angeles Times)

Statement by ACE President Ted Mitchell on the Need for Congress to Act to Protect Dreamers

   (American Council on Education)

ICE Detained 2 Undocumented UC Students. Latino California Lawmakers Are Demanding
   Their Release  (Daily Californian)

 

 

22  Congress Set to Clip Higher Ed Wings

 

Sources

Higher Education Act Proposal Primes Fight Over Future of Colleges (Wall Street Journal)

House Republicans Eye Sweeping Changes in Higher Education Act (Chronicle of Higher Education)

Higher Education Bill Tightens Accountability Rules for Minority Schools (Wall Street Journal)

House GOP to Propose Sweeping Changes to Higher Education (Wall Street Journal)

Higher Education Bill Could Heat Up Competition for Adult Students (Wall Street Journal)

Higher Education Bill Requires Notice on Free Speech Policies (Wall Street Journal)

 

Further Reading

Today’s College Students Aren’t Who You Think (Wall Street Journal)

Do School Vouchers Work? Milwaukee’s Experiment Suggests an Answer (Wall Street Journal)