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...editorial series relating to General Education this week. The most serious of them is the assumption that the Gen Ed program will launch in four months, and that the class of 2012 will have to decide between the new Program and the Core when they arrive. This is incorrect. The new Gen Ed program will launch in September 2009, with a small number of courses available next year. Students in the Class of 2012 will enter under the Core requirements, and have the opportunity to switch, should they wish to, beginning the following year...
...September 2006 report that between 1.4 and 2.4 million bachelor’s degree candidates would be dissuaded from pursuing their degree by financial strains. But in an addendum this week, the Committee said that their estimation was based on a predicted college enrollment rate and patterns that were incorrect. “Between 1992 and 2004, a major shift in enrollment away from four-year colleges occurred among college-qualified high school students from low- and moderate-income families,” the update said. According to the Committee, increasing college costs, coupled with student aid, made many students...
...these hurdles, saying cheerleading is “not a priority on Harvard’s campus,” despite the alumni and fans that “recognize the talent level of the team.” And not only are the Harvard views of cheerleading usually incorrect, the views exacerbated by pop-culture tend to be false as well. Catty competition à la “Bring It On” does not occur in the real world of college cheerleading; team members say that, in general, the competition is friendly. Now that Harvard?...
...many years now, colleges have contented themselves with cleansing their curricula of politically incorrect presumptions and prejudices—so-called Great Books programs and American civic education, to offer two examples—meanwhile creating preserves, regardless of academic rigor, for the trendy and ideological disciplines like the study of women, gender, and sexuality...
...trap. Certainly many rural Americans have a wide variety of reasons for opposing gun restrictions. But to claim that there exists a single “rural America” that universally rejects such proposals and considers suggestions to the contrary as a cultural affront is not only wildly incorrect, it’s insulting...