A couple of weeks back, I commented on the criticism aimed at the Revolutionary Marxist class PSU offers through the Chiron Studies program. On the conservative website The Blaze, author Erica Ritz suggested that a “controversial” course like this should not be covered by taxpayer dollars. She added that classes like this are the reason our country’s university system is under fire.
As Charlie Hales and Jefferson Smith took center stage on Tuesday night, the name Cameron Whitten was not on the lips of many, if any. But as our voting process proceeded with a business-as-usual result, it’s too bad that his name was so easy to miss on the ballot.
It’s not every day that we see a practical application of what we learn in the classroom toward our day-to-day lives.
Rarely do we sit in our statistics classes and daydream about all the ways we can change the world through data collection—or maybe it’s just me.
At the age of 15, Dumisani Rebombo raped a young girl. Branded a sissy in his South African village because he didn’t herd cattle or have a girlfriend, he was taunted by his friends and ultimately “forced” to prove his masculinity. And the way to establish his manhood was to desecrate womanhood.
Portland Community College administrators are eating humble pie—and they’re asking their teachers to pay for it.
Since 2009, PCC has made about $700,000 in overpayments to 228 English professors due to a financial computing error, according to The Oregonian. Apparently, over the last three years, instructors were accidentally paid an extra hour per week. The college recently discovered the error and is now asking for the money back.
Portland State found its way into a commentary on The Blaze, a conservative news and opinion website, a couple of weeks ago. Apparently, we are the reason the “U.S. education system is under fire.”
Some have heard the explosions of bombs, others worked on billion dollar machinery; some were stationed in Kandahar, others in Delaware. They are administrators, mechanics and engineers, and one in seven have seen live combat. They are the diverse group of veterans who have served our country, and in growing numbers, they are our fellow students.
As Americans, we dutifully wrote out our checks to the Internal Revenue Service this month, and many a sigh was heard as we signed, sealed and delivered our hard-earned money away for the upkeep of our schools, roads, hospitals—and oh, wait—the extravagant parties of government workers in Las Vegas.
Did you know that our state spends more money on the imprisonment of Oregonians than on the higher education of Oregonians? According to a report by Public Administration Resources, ours is one of only a handful of states that spends more on prison than on higher education—approximately 30 percent more.
You’d better hope you’re not pulled over for a faulty taillight any time soon. If you are, hold onto your britches—literally.
Student loans. Two words that are sure to send a shiver up the spine of anyone enrolled in a university.