Unprepared for the Future Week in Education

MIKE LACHANCE AUG 15, 2026 8:00 AM

Professor Jacobson appeared on FOX News this week to discuss the fact that so many college students lack basic skills.

• ‘Maybe This Really is an Emergency’: When Even Lefty Profs Complain About Unprepared Incoming Students

This doesn’t help.

• U. Michigan Will Hide Grades for First-Semester Students to ‘Curb the Mental Health Crisis’

Schools are placing priority on all the wrong things.

• Georgetown Federal Work-Study Comes With Required DEI Training
• Kansas School Uses ‘They/Them’ Pronouns for All Students in Yearbook
• CU Boulder Bias Report Considers ‘Just Get it Done’ as ‘Hostile’ Language

Everything seems to be going in the wrong direction.

• Yale Has Almost One Administrator for Every Undergraduate Student
• Mike Rowe Sounds the Alarm on Student Debt vs. Thousands of Unfilled Trade Jobs
• UC-Berkeley Student Paper Worried About Lack of Minority Admissions

I’m just shocked by this.

• Abdul El-Sayed Protested Conservative Event Condemning Islamic Terrorism as an Undergrad

Some good news.

• New Rules on Duration of Student Visas From DHS Will Stop ‘Endless College’
• Dept. Education To Investigate 32 Florida State Discriminatory Scholarships After Equal Protection Project Complaint

Some sad news.

• Former University of Cambridge Professor Jason Arday Found Dead

Some crime news.

• Lawyers for Tyler Robinson Ask Judge to Take Death Penalty Off Table
• Student Activists Arrested After ‘Occupying’ Entrance to DC Office for AI Lobbyists

A huge milestone.

• Happy 25th Anniversary to Professor Glenn Reynolds and the Instapundit Blog!

Just crazy.

• Cornell Bans Processing Wild Game on Campus After Students Butcher Bear in Dorm Kitchen

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