by Lil Tuttle | Jun 17, 2016 | Education
Student loan default rates have nearly doubled in the past decade, creating the perception of a student debt crisis. But that perception is wrong according to researcher Max Eden at the Manhattan Institute. Most graduates who borrowed to attend a four-year university...
by Lil Tuttle | May 17, 2016 | Culture, Feminism & Sexuality, Education
by Lil Tuttle Bathrooms have always been women's most safe space. It's where we run to get away from "that guy." Or to cry our eyes out when someone hurts or humiliates us in public. Or where gal friends go to talk out of earshot of their guy friends....
by Lil Tuttle | May 12, 2016 | Culture, Feminism & Sexuality, Education
by Lil Tuttle Do you feel you can't say what you think? Or espouse ideas and positions that someone else doesn't agree with? If so, you're not alone. You're actually in the majority. A recent Knight Foundation and Newseum Institute survey of college...
by Lil Tuttle | Apr 1, 2016 | Education
Last fall’s student protests exposed how far afield university culture has strayed from its enlightened days as the center of free speech and scholarly inquiry. In an in-depth piece entitled The New Dark Ages on Campus, K.C. Johnson details the many...
by Lil Tuttle | Jan 26, 2016 | Education
Buying that first car is a real learning curve for everyone. Not-so-smart buyers let salesmen's promises and emotional appeal influence our decisionmaking. The learning curve in that case happens after the purchase when we realize that we've paid far too much...
by Lil Tuttle | Nov 16, 2015 | Education
We offer two examples of campus thought today: the first, one of childish wishful thinking by a Million Student March organizer; and the second, one of mature reflection by the student editors of the Claremont Independent, the Claremont McKenna College student...