Category: Education (higher ed)
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UVa’s Latest Lurch Toward Leftism
by James A. Bacon The University of Virginia has bolstered its reputation as a Leftist intellectual monoculture with the announcement that Malo Andre Hutson, director of Columbia University’s Urban Community and Health Equity Lab, will become the new dean of the School of Architecture. At Columbia, Hutson belongs to both the Earth Institute and the…
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Tech Prof Corrected WHO, CDC on COVID Spread
by Steve Haner Wired has chronicled a one-year struggle by a Virginia Tech teacher and researcher, working mainly with other non-physicians, to convince the Centers for Disease Control and World Health Organization they were dead wrong on COVID. The kind of dead wrong that made more people dead. The battle was quietly won when on…
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UVa Religion Faculty Hate Speech against Evangelical Christians
by James C. Sherlock Thirty percent of Virginians identify as evangelical Christians. So, one can never say that the University of Virginia, in targeting them with school-sponsored hate speech, doesn’t swing for the fences. Members of UVa Department of Religious Studies faculty have unloaded on white evangelicals in as wide-ranging and comprehensive an example of…
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Kasey Meredith Makes History at VMI
Kasey Meredith made national headlines yesterday when she became the first woman in the Virginia Military Institute’s 182-year history to serve as regimental commander of the Corps of Cadets. She will be responsible to the commandant of cadets for the training, discipline, health, welfare and morale of the corps. “The great thing about VMI is…
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The F*ck Quilt Lady Is W&L’s New College Dean
by James A. Bacon The University of Virginia had its “F*ck UVa” sign controversy. Brace yourself for Washington & Lee University’s “F*ck quilt” brouhaha. About ten days ago, W&L announced a new dean of the college, Chawne Kimber, head of the math department and co-director of the STEM education at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania. She…
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Marx, White Moral Panic and a White Liberal’s Rosary
by James C. Sherlock A couple of days ago Dick Hall-Sizemore published CRT and Virginia History here. Dick is an excellent essayist. That one was the exception that proves the rule. He indicated early in the more-than-1,500 word piece that he would discuss “the legitimacy of this antagonism regarding CRT.” I actually looked forward to hearing…
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VDOE Regulation Officially Nonsensical
by James C. Sherlock I am a reasonably experienced and educated man, but sometimes I need help. I just read the Virginia regulation 8VAC20-23-190. Professional studies requirements for PreK-12, special education, secondary grades 6-12, and adult education endorsements. I know, you don’t have to say it. But anyway, I read it. The full regulation directs…
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The Accounting Fraud Behind the Bloated Student Loan Program
by James A. Bacon America’s student loan program has turned into a half-trillion dollar government boondoggle, comparable in scope to the savings & loan scandal that rocked the United States in the 1980s and 1990s. Instead of enriching go-go businessmen who gambled hundreds of billions of dollars on real estate, the student loan fiasco has…
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GMU Cites “Diversity” to Justify Goals for Hiring Nonwhite Staff
by Hans Bader The president of George Mason University wants to give minorities a big advantage in hiring until the faculty is as heavily minority as the school’s student body and the future, mostly non-white U.S. population. This is illegal, say lawyers and law professors. Indeed, GMU’s president, Gregory Washington, recognized that objection in an…
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Still Clueless After All These Years
by James A. Bacon In his latest hit job on the Virginia Military Institute, the Washington Post’s Ian Shapira weaves into his account responses to questions submitted to Governor Ralph Northam in writing. Northam, who served as president of the Honor Court and graduated from the Institute in 1981, comes across as totally clueless. “I…
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Some College Graduates Will Get Paid to Live in Southwest or Southside Virginia
by Dick Hall-Sizemore The Tobacco Commission (Virginia Tobacco Region and Revitalization Commission) has come up with a program that does not involve pork-barrel grants. Two of the problems afflicting the area served by the Commission, Southside and Southwest, are a shortage of people to fill certain jobs and a shortage of young adults putting down…
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WaPo Reduces VMI to a Black-and-White Morality Tale
by James A. Bacon The latest blockbuster finding in The Washington Post’s jihad against the Virginia Military Institute: African-American cadets experienced racism four decades ago. According to interviews with 12 African Americans who attended VMI at the same time as Governor Ralph Northam around 1980, black cadets endured frequent racist insults. They were uncomfortable with…
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UVa in the Age of Covidiocy
by Walter Smith In late February of 2020 my oldest son traveled to Kansas City to meet with a group of Californians. Upon his return, he felt beat. Attributing his fatigue to work and travel, he soon felt better and came to our house a number of times. Our youngest began to feel poorly. After…
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UVa’s Crying Game
by Jock Yell0tt “When Dean Goluboff took the stage to respond, she immediately started crying and was largely incoherent to the audience for much of the first part of her response … ” Risa Gobuloff, Esq., is Dean of the University of Virginia Law School. Dean Gobuloff’s crying spate occurred at a Town Hall meeting…
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Racist Nurses Need Indoctrination, Too, UVa Agrees
by Walter Smith After the widely publicized killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police last year, University of Virginia nursing students Milania Harris and Zara Alisa founded Advocates for Medical Equality. Their mission was to confront bias, bigotry and racism in healthcare. They won a Martin Luther King, Jr., UVA Health System Award for their efforts,…