Category: university

Where Can You Send Your Children to University?

Commentary Liberal arts education, as I experienced it at Antioch College in the late 1950s and early 1960s, was aimed at opening students’ minds to the intellectual life of Western culture. Students were asked to consider such questions as “What counts as a good life?”, “How do people’s ideas and actions differ from place to…


Iowa University Officials Denied Immunity for Targeting Christian Student Group

University of Iowa administrators can be held personally accountable for denying official recognition to a Christian students group because of its faith-based leadership policy, the Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday. A panel of three circuit judges ruled in favor of Business Leaders in Christ (BLinC), holding that the university officials do not…


From Postcolonial Theory to Toxic Masculinity: What Students Learn at Canadian Universities

Commentary Did you know that all of the evil in the world was brought about by Western imperialism and colonialism? That is the message of “postcolonial theory,” the dominant narrative in university social sciences, humanities, and education. Canada in particular is a “colonial settler” society living on land stolen from First Nations. But students are…


$30 Million Innovation Deal Secured Between the Australian National University and WearOptimo

The Queensland government and the Australian National University have struck a $30 million deal with the WearOptimo to start mass-production a new, potentially life-saving technology in Australia. A partnership between the Queensland Government, The Australian National University (ANU), WearOptimo, and the Australian National Fabrication Facility (ANFF) are looking at manufacturing and distributing WearOptimo’s inexpensive MicrowearableTM…


WearOptimo Strikes $30 Million Deal For Life-Saving Technology

The Queensland government and the Australian National University have struck a $30 million deal with the WearOptimo to start mass-production a new, potentially life-saving technology in Australia. A partnership between the Queensland Government, The Australian National University (ANU), WearOptimo, and the Australian National Fabrication Facility (ANFF) are looking at manufacturing and distributing WearOptimo’s inexpensive MicrowearableTM…


Free Speech on Campus and the Case of Jonathan Bradley

Commentary The case of Ryerson University student Jonathan Bradley is yet another example of the erosion of academic freedom and free speech at universities. A fourth-year journalism student and a strict Catholic, Bradley has filed a discrimination complaint with the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (HRTO), claiming to have been fired from the Eyeopener, a Ryerson…


Australian Academic Says Women Are Afraid of Being Labelled Transphobic for Standing up for Themselves

A Melbourne academic believes women are not standing up for their rights to have female-only spaces—like single-gender changing rooms—because they will be targeted as transphobic. Alongside this, she believes that the increasing encroachment of so-called gender-neutral language, such as “chest-feeding” and “gestational carrier,” is impacting the rights of women; who are allowing it for the sake…


Laurentian’s Financial Woes Are a Warning to All Canadian Universities

Commentary If you want stability, a university is one of your best bets. Some of Canada’s oldest universities are well over 100 years old and still going strong. Universities give significant benefits to the cities they are located in. They provide a large number of well-paying jobs, increase the local population by attracting students from…


Useless PhD Programs Won’t Be Missed

Commentary “Take a basket-weaving course,” is an old saying university students use when they want to boost their grades. It’s a humorous way of poking fun at the many “mickey mouse” courses offered at universities in which students can get high grades without doing much work. While actual basket-weaving courses are rare, useless courses are…