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Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailDonors should have woken up long ago to anti-semitism on campus, says AEI's Naomi Schaefer RileyNaomi Schaefer Riley, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, joins 'Power Lunch' to discuss CEOs calling on universities to make statements on Israel-Hamas war.
Persons: AEI's Naomi Schaefer Riley Naomi Schaefer Riley Organizations: American Enterprise Institute Locations: Israel
Michigan Tech has come out on top and Harvard at the bottom in the largest-ever survey looking into the state of free speech on America's college campuses. Most elite colleges, including Penn and Yale, trail larger state schools with more working-class students. Images: Shutterstock/FIRE Composite: Mark KellyGordon Gee thinks higher education is at a “crossroads.” If it takes the wrong turn, it will head over a demographic and financial cliff. To save West Virginia University, of which he is president, in February he announced significant cuts, including the elimination of 169 faculty positions and some 30 academic programs and departments that were either lacking enrollment or too expensive to maintain.
Persons: Mark Kelly Gordon Gee Organizations: Michigan Tech, Harvard, Penn, West Virginia University Locations: Yale
The ‘Suicide’ of the Liberal Arts
  + stars: | 2022-12-03 | by ( Naomi Schaefer Riley | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
John, are you an Athenian or a Spartan?” A group of Iraqi students put that question to John Agresto in 2003, when he was in Baghdad working to rebuild Iraq’s university system for the Coalition Provisional Authority. After a classroom discussion of Thucydides, he says, “I thought I knew what they were driving at. So I said, ‘I hope I’m an Athenian, cultured and sophisticated. I don’t want to be a Spartan, rough and warlike.’ ”That was the answer the students were looking for—but Mr. Agresto had misunderstood the question. “The Spartans talked a lot about honor, their alliances and their friends,” he says.
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