Maintaining the Higher Ed Grift

As we consider the future of higher education, the best way to decide what universities should be is not to gaze into the future but to study the past. Marsden’s narrative, The Soul of the American University Revisited, raises a signpost for our society.https://t.co/biny97DzZf pic.twitter.com/zlIfF07rEe

— Front Porch Republic (@FrontPorchRepub) August 27, 2021

“Why among the many institutions of Catholic learning are there so few dedicated to a liberating and humane education in truth, humility, and love?” John C. Pinheiro evaluates the widespread decline of Catholic universities and colleges for @ubookman: https://t.co/MzoHtHhs6k

— Russell Kirk Center (@KirkCenter) August 27, 2021

Mainstream academics still clueless about imperial collapse and its extent.

The Higher Ed Grift Needs to End

US approves record number of Indian student visa applications in 2021 https://t.co/sBBMLNdnYR via @timesofindia

— FAIR (@FAIRImmigration) August 26, 2021

Alexander Riley on the State of American Higher Ed

The increasingly dominant view at woke liberal arts schools is that all white heterosexual males are the same.https://t.co/1FcJ3CfXdm

— First Things (@firstthingsmag) June 7, 2021

But Do the Students Have the Right Knowledge to Graple with Error?

1/ I "teach," in the sense of assign and discuss, work by Marx, Gramsci, and Marcuse. That's not because I think what they say is true. I think they're wrong on all the important points. It's because students need to know about them and students learn from engaging their ideas. https://t.co/ZxCd7qhB8w

— Robert P. George (@McCormickProf) June 3, 2021

This Will Continue Right Up to the End of Catholic Higher Ed in the US

Friends, this past weekend, I was honored to deliver the commencement address to the graduating class at @stthomashouston. The entire point of a Catholic intellectual formation is to produce great souls.

Read my latest article at the Word on Fire website: https://t.co/irhzh4gTaV

— Bishop Robert Barron (@BishopBarron) May 11, 2021

CWR Dispatch: Stretching Out to Great Things: A Commencement Address for the University of St. Thomas

“When we follow these prompts of our culture today, we become cramped souls, what the medieval philosophers called pusillae animae. The entire point of a Catholic intellectual formation is to produce magnae animae (great souls).”

The Idea of a University...

when people are ignorant of imperial collapse...

Interested in the idea of university in the time of COVID?

Watch @josephecapizzi, @margaritamooney, and Michael Gorman discuss COVID's effect on curricula: https://t.co/B0rSdNLeaf

And watch our previous sessions: https://t.co/sISXivA6khhttps://t.co/FZ9NSUUwQJ@scalaorg pic.twitter.com/fZBgaCudRF

— IHE (@HumanEcologyCUA) April 19, 2021

Things We Didn't Learn at Uni

This is an important article. The history of hard decisions, conquest and defeat, real heroes and real villains should never be pushed away. https://t.co/Qc3RCQRhkL

— Tim Wood 🏴‍☠️ (@TimOnPoint) February 9, 2021

Because Universities Care about Robert George's Approval

University after university today faces the test: What kind of institution are we? What will we choose to be? Will we truly be a university? Or will be a ... something else? Baylor has chosen to be a university. It has passed the test--with flying colors.https://t.co/MKdVqYLT69

— Robert P. George (@McCormickProf) January 29, 2021

Grad School is a Pain

“I cannot emphasize enough the impact on #mentalhealth when obtaining a #PhD. I wish I were alone in making that statement; however, #students in my programme struggled with suicidality, depression & anxiety.”#AcademicMentalHealth #ReseachCulture #scicommhttps://t.co/esQuQLqB5C

— Krzysztof Potempa (@BRAINCURES) January 28, 2021

Liberal Education Will Fix Everything!

When you don't have political liberty, a liberal education really doesn't matter, especially if that liberal education is deemed to be in opposition to the reigning woke civic religion and therefore to be eliminated.

Priorities, people. Don't look to academics for leadership or solutions to our political crisis because they are stuck in the mindset of preserving their job and financial security. They are not really fremen.

Listen in while Andrew Seeley discusses the ongoing revival of Catholic schools through classical curriculums. https://t.co/qyu3u0id2H

— First Things (@firstthingsmag) January 12, 2021

Let Catholic Higher Ed Burn

Academic "mutual admiration society."

There will be no honest grappling with race issues and identity politics, or the principles of political community, just PC platitudes about racism being bad, etc. Note that there is no session on "What We Owe to Men."

We just posted the full schedule for our Winter Conference (Jan 12–14)! Join us for 3 days of excellent conversation about what it means to “dwell together in unity” and pursue the common good. Details & free registration: https://t.co/4GWv5dJHBD #WinCon21 pic.twitter.com/y0n4pVc5F6

— de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture (@ND_EthicsCenter) January 4, 2021

program

The Feminization of Higher Education

And Latins are actively assisting in this.

Very grateful to be part of a graduate program that not only supports the intellectual life of their fellows, but also the flourishing of their families! https://t.co/RaMNpNuHUw

— Morgan Whitmer (@Brownfield13) January 4, 2021

"Conservatism"

#ThirdDayofChristmas #FellowFeature

For a recent installment of @eudaimoniapod, IHE Fellow @jennfrey and Agnes Callard talk about piety and wisdom in Antigone, great books curricula, the importance of literature for philosophers, and much more: https://t.co/SptQHtdhfj pic.twitter.com/8V0SqqZXZR

— IHE (@HumanEcologyCUA) December 27, 2020

Episode 28

Thomas Bertonneau Retires

Leaving the Blight of Higher Education: Part I–Farewell, Students

Waiting for part 2.

Who's Bullying Whom?

STEM the BULLYING #workshop (March 16, 2021)
Keynotes:
Dr. @lkeashly @waynestate
Dr. Leah Hollis @RutgersU
Dr. Sherry Moss @WakeForestUni
Moderators:
Dr. @MoriMahmoudi @michiganstateu
Dr. Jennifer Swann @LehighU
Register: https://t.co/r5K2jxw3uc pic.twitter.com/VfyMT0kXsK

— Academic Parity Movement (@AcademicParity) December 28, 2020

Academia is a Joke When Latin Prog Clowns Like This Have Jobs

Christmas surprise!
My book "Joe Biden and Catholicism in the United States" will be available on January 20, Inauguration Day (available for pre-order on Amazon).
Edizione italiana disponibile lo stesso 20 gennaio, per la Editrice Morcelliana. pic.twitter.com/UAOeYOvH95

— Massimo Faggioli (@MassimoFaggioli) December 24, 2020

In the political history of the United States, Biden was not the first Catholic to run for or be elected to the presidency, but he is the first to to do so while rising above and overcoming deep divisions within the American Catholic Church.

— Massimo Faggioli (@MassimoFaggioli) December 24, 2020

"Anti-Semitism"

The IHRA guidelines make it perfectly clear that it is fine to criticise Israel as one would any other state, but not insofar as it perceived as a Jewish collectivity. In view of centuries of persecution of Jews, denial they need a homeland for security is surely anti Semitic. https://t.co/UA7KtFSJD2

— john milbank (@johnmilbank3) December 24, 2020

More Controlled Opposition?

Do they make exceptions for certain kinds of "hate" speech?

Academic freedom fighters Rebekah Adams and Akhil Rajasekar of the @HdxAcademy award-winning Princeton Open Campus Coalition make the case in Newsweek for a student academic freedom movement.https://t.co/nJQpfxWRna

— Robert P. George (@McCormickProf) December 22, 2020

The State of American Higher Ed

“Ask a feminist candidate for a job in philosophy whether she can fairly present the Church’s position on abortion? Gender discrimination: and if you do it again, pal, you’re gone.” https://t.co/bPcrHZo8dY

— Chronicles Magazine (@ChroniclesMag) December 21, 2020

St. Constantine College

We have a College (9k, fully accredited) https://t.co/RnQQNcvNQy) and k-12 (https://t.co/ukhxbQnnJD). There. Now.

— John Mark N Reynolds (@JMNR) December 20, 2020