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YU News
God Bless America
Kate Smith introduces God Bless America.
Jul 11, 2010
Happy Independence Day, America!
We at Yorktown University would like to wish you and yours a safe and happy 4th of July celebration. To celebrate, we'd like to draw your attention to a guest-column on The Denver Post, by Dr. Jason Ross, who teaches "Roots of American Order" at Yorktown University.
Jul 4, 2010
60s Terrorist, William Charles "Bill" Ayers, now a Professor Education
Conservapedia has information about William Ayers: "William Charles "Bill" Ayers (born December 26, 1944 in Oak Park, Illinois) is currently a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and former Chicago community organizer. He is best known as a founder of the internationally supported terrorist Weather Underground Organization (WUO), and friend of U.S President Barack Obama. The WUO has often mistakenly been labeled as a Vietnam era protest organization, however many of the organizations activities continued well past the end of American involvement in Vietnam,[1] the fall of South Vietnam, and the victory of the Communist regime of North Vietnam, which was the groups oft stated goals...."
Jun 30, 2010
Which Colleges Are Worth Your Investment?
The folks at PayScale have calculated the expected Return on Investment (ROI) for various colleges and universities.
Jun 30, 2010
60s Radical Bomber Dies at age 58
The New York Times is reporting: Dwight Armstrong, one of four young men who in 1970 bombed a building on the University of Wisconsin campus in Madison, killing one person and injuring several others — a political protest that, gone violently wrong, endures in the national memory as an act of domestic terrorism — died on June 20 in Madison. He was 58.
Jun 27, 2010
Why Teachers Drink
We received this by e-mail (original source unknown), and thought we'd share it so we can all have a little Friday chuckle. Happy Father's Day!
Jun 18, 2010
Are we raising a generation of over-educated welders, electricians, and machinists?
Carol Morello, of WaPo, reports today that some college graduates are taking a suprising turn in their careers.
Jun 14, 2010
Coercive and Peaceful Discrimination
Rand Paul has criticized the Civil Rights Act of 1964 but has stated he would still have voted for it. He has been taken to task for this by the Wall Street Journal and members of his own party.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 achieved one thing that was great and one that has been disastrous. It rightly prohibited racial segregation and voter suppression, forms of forcible or coercive discrimination. But in Title VII on employment it wrongly prohibited non-coercive or peaceful discrimination.
From the point of view of moral principle, there is a fundamental difference between forcible or coercive discrimination and peaceful or non-coercive discrimination.
Jun 10, 2010
Is higher education under-reporting student indebtedness?
EduBubble writes: After a friend told me that he financed his kid's Harvard education with a home equity loan, I started thinking a bit more about the accuracy of the number that’s supposed to represent the average size of student loans. The College Board, for instance, likes to say that the "median debt level of 2007-08 bachelor's degree recipients at private four-year institutions was $22,375". That's a pretty big number but it's so much smaller than the listed tuition price of many private colleges ($200k+) that we're lead to believe that financial aid is making it all relatively manageable.
Jun 9, 2010
Forbes.com Ranks America's 'Best Colleges'
Richard Vedder and David M. Ewalt report on the best public and private colleges and universities--from the student's point of view.
Jun 8, 2010
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