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Santa Clara University Students Must Take Covid Vaccines or Withdraw

Lucia Sinatra / July 11, 2023 / Education, Vaccines / 5 minute read

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Given that the emergency is officially over, and the shots have proven to be both ineffective and in some cases harmful, now more than ever, SCU must defend the science and ethics behind their refusal to drop them. In the absence of such transparency, we are left to assume that Osofsky, along with SCCMA and SCCPH, must be using SCU students as mere pawns to achieve their unscientific and authoritarian vaccination goals and quotas.

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The Evolution of Thin Skin

Steve Templeton / June 29, 2023 / Education / 5 minute read

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Many universities have abandoned their mission of truth-seeking in favor of promoting social justice and all its quasi-religious trappings. This new mission has infiltrated every level of higher education, even medical schools. With this cultural slide, not only is it wrong to attack fellow student’s or professor’s work, it is wrong to even challenge or debate their ideas entirely. If the work of the professors or students falls in line with the new mission, it becomes insulated from any criticism.

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Structural Reasons Why Today’s Universities Fail

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Gigi Foster / June 29, 2023 / Education / 8 minute read

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Administrative bloat has many other consequences, amongst which is that many university functions now follow bureaucratic rather than academic logic, ignoring the purely academic benefits to activities and focusing instead on finding and privileging reasons for the bureaucracy’s own existence. This leads to a perennial search for problems that can be exaggerated and turned into a justification for more administration (e.g., ‘Is there a problem I can pretend to solve by creating an additional compliance problem?’).

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The Human Costs of Campus Closures

Rob Jenkins / June 26, 2023 / Education / 5 minute read

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In our unhinged pursuit of a covid-free fantasyland, we wreaked untold and immeasurable havoc on the entire higher education ecosystem. Whether this is reversible remains to be seen. But for the damage not to be permanent, we must at the very least resolve never to do it again. Another round of campus closures like the last one will likely permanently destroy higher ed as we know it.

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Paying the Price for Campus Closures

Rob Jenkins / June 14, 2023 / Education, Policy / 7 minute read

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Could all this pain have been prevented if campuses had just reopened fully in the fall of 2020? Perhaps not—but much of it could have. At worst, we would have continued our gradual downhill roll toward the 2026 cliff, giving legislators and administrators plenty of time to prepare.

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The Dashed Dreams of Digital Learning

Josh Stevenson / May 25, 2023 / Education / 7 minute read

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The results we were promised from increased tech adoption, always available learning content, and a device for every child has turned out to be not much more than a successful marketing campaign. One where tech corporations cashed in, government overspent taxpayer money, and once again, the children were let down.

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College Administrators Need to Admit Wrongdoing and Beg Forgiveness

Mark Oshinskie / May 20, 2023 / Education / 5 minute read

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Traditionally, college commencement addresses are corny or grandiose exhortations for grads to devote their lives to serving others. But this year, commencement speakers should show self-awareness and focus on how badly they and their peers have failed their students and an entire generation of young people during the past 38 months. They need to apologize profusely, specifically and at length.

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The Truth about Randi Weingarten and the School Closures

Jennifer Sey / May 19, 2023 / Education / 6 minute read

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In reality, Weingarten did everything in her power to keep schools shuttered; she just pretended that she wanted them open. She had a direct line to Rochelle Walensky, the Director of the CDC, and interjected impossible-to-meet guidelines about what was necessary to re-open schools “safely.” Emails obtained through the Freedom of Information Act in May 2021 revealed that the AFT lobbied the CDC and suggested language for the agency’s federal reopening guidance.

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A Failure to Disclose Competing Interests

Paul Bourdon / May 14, 2023 / Education, Public Health, Vaccines / 15 minute read

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This is a story of an author who promoted COVID-19 vaccine uptake among adolescents while failing to disclose significant competing interests (e.g., his holding of an unrestricted research grant from Pfizer). This is also a story of a failure of the author’s publisher Nature Reviews Cardiology to enforce Nature Portfolio’s declaration-of-competing-interests policy.

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Who Is Better at Raising Your Child, You or the State?

Mattias Desmet / May 13, 2023 / Education / 5 minute read

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Just as the state cannot trust the weighty job of parenting to parents, it cannot trust the job of childcare to childcare providers. They will therefore have to be subjected to strict protocols, as befits a good bureaucracy. And those protocols will be designed by experts who have scientifically determined which conditioning techniques lead to the best adapted little New Citizen.

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University of Chicago Students Speak Out

Lucia Sinatra / May 12, 2023 / Education / 4 minute read

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For the past three years, students at the University of Chicago have been exposing the facade without intimidation or fear, and they just keep raising the bar. One week from today, students will be hosting academic and industry leaders to discuss “Academia’s COVID Failures”, and you cannot miss the livestream of this event.

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School Closures in 2020/21: What really happened?

Josh Stevenson / May 12, 2023 / Education, Policy, Society / 5 minute read

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At the time of this writing, school closures are still occurring, albeit much rarer than last year. I truly hope we can one day put politics aside and do what’s right for our future and for our kids.

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