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The University of Pennsylvania has promised $100 million to increase faculty diversity. Yale has just pledged $50 million, Johns Hopkins $25 million. These sums are large, but the goal has been an object of urgent attention for decades
Published: Monday, February 29th, 2016 @ 3:58 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Since 2005, the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement has been on American college campuses recruiting students to join a movement to isolate Israel.
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 4:46 am
By: John William Pope Center
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We are just past the end of this year's "Israeli Apartheid Week," actually two weeks in the United States, from February 26 to March 12. As the very name implies, Israeli Apartheid Week seeks to persuade students and others that Israel is a pariah regime deserving of the same isolation that...
Published: Friday, March 20th, 2015 @ 1:21 am
By: John William Pope Center
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A colleague at the Pope Center has sighted some interesting birds - "bubble hawks" and "bubble doves." Using language...
Published: Friday, August 2nd, 2013 @ 5:59 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Jeffrey Selingo, editor at large for the Chronicle of Higher Education, introduces Aiden late in his new book College (Un)Bound: The Future of Higher Education and What it Means for Students. Aiden does not attend a four-year college. Instead, he assembles his own degree, patching together...
Published: Saturday, June 29th, 2013 @ 1:28 am
By: John William Pope Center
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The issue of campus speakers has, until now, focused on the rights of invited conservatives to speak without harassment and on the disparity of liberal speakers over conservative ones.
Published: Sunday, March 24th, 2013 @ 12:28 am
By: Jay Schalin
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