Adam Kissel

Jan 17, 2025 | readlion.com | Adam Wittenberg |David A. Waugh |Adam Kissel |Jarrett Stepman

What costs more: a new Mercedes GLS SUV at $89,200, or a year at Harvard or the University of Southern California? According to the Associated Press, it’s the latter. There are now multiple colleges charging $90,000 or more for a year at their school, with USC topping the list at $95,000. Multiplied by four years for a college degree, that’s nearly $400,000, or enough to buy a nice home in most states.

Dec 2, 2024 | readlion.com | Victor Davis Hanson |David A. Waugh |Adam Kissel |Jarrett Stepman

(The Daily Signal) – Universities have suffered a cataclysmic decline in public approval and support. A Gallup poll taken this year found that only 36% of Americans polled either expressed “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in higher education—once the agreed-on touchstone to upward mobility. Gifting to most universities has been down for two consecutive years. There is zero intellectual diversity on most university campuses.

Nov 25, 2024 | readlion.com | Jaryn Crouson |Adam Kissel |Arielle Del Turco |Dennis Prager

(Daily Caller News Foundation) – Former Democratic presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama’s campaigns were defined by sweeping education reform, improving public K-12 education for students across the nation. By 2024, the Democratic platform had largely abandoned this sentiment, and the education scene has increasingly been shaped by culture war issues that have Republicans winning with parents. President-elect Donald Trump’s victory over Vice President Kamala Harris On Nov.

Nov 11, 2024 | mindingthecampus.org | Adam Kissel

zero comment University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) is discriminating against prospective and current students because it is on a mission to raise its percentage of Hispanic students high enough to qualify for millions in federal aid. Why? The federal government leads colleges and universities into achieving racial and ethnic quotas by dangling the money in front of them, practically pushing them to meet the quotas.

Oct 1, 2024 | dailysignal.com | Adam Kissel

Rarely does a piece of education legislation deserve a grade of A+. But the End Woke Higher Education Act, has passed the U.S. House of Representatives, has earned it. The policies in the bill—passed 213-201 on Sept. 19—are right on point and are articulated well. Freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of religion, and accreditation reform: What’s not to applaud?