November 05, 2024
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Chance Layton
National Association of Scholars
Excerpt: Today, many Americans are heading to the polls to vote for our next President and administration. We Americans will also decide which party will control both houses of Congress. There have been several successes over the last few years, thanks primarily to the actions of courts and state legislatures. Much more is to be done to reform higher education so that it better serves Americans. The National Association of Scholars has spent considerable time thinking about the various reforms we’d like to see.
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Brad Polumbo
Washington Examiner
Excerpt: Voters are fortunate to have seen a decisive presidential winner early Wednesday morning. But, tragically, there was always going to be one clear loser of the November presidential contest: the First Amendment.
Why? Well, in Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, both mainstream political parties ran candidates who, in different ways, have made their contempt for free speech clear over the years.
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Ryan Quinn
Inside Higher Ed
Excerpt: Two free expression advocacy groups say they’ve sent letters to Pennsylvania public colleges and universities “urging them to protect students’ expressive rights leading up to election day,” according to a news release sent Friday.
The groups are the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression and the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania.
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James R. Wells, '46
February 20, 2024
Can’t understand why the Federal Government doesn’t just cease all funding (taxpayer money, after all) to higher education and stop providing student loans (again using taxpayer money). Let Universities operate like businesses and compete on their own for students (customers). I suspect colleges would suddenly become competitive and cut back on unnecessary costs (like hundreds of useless deans) and they might even start teaching useful courses – perhaps even courses that would help students get jobs and eventually be useful and productive citizens.
JRW