Education

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Texas Christian University has denounced conservative podcaster Steven Crowder and offered counseling for students offended by his "change my mind" event earlier this week. (Twitter/@scrowder)

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Led by Peter Boghossian, an assistant professor of philosophy at Portland State University in Oregon, a trio of self-declared "left-wing academics" ran a research project exposing what they call higher education's burgeoning field of "grievance studies." (Screengrab from Peter Boghossian's Twitter account)

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This Sept. 9, 2016, file photo shows Harkness Tower on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Conn. (AP Photo/Beth J. Harpaz)

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IMG Academy's Silvio De Sousa #22 in action against Wasatch Academy during a high school basketball game at the 2017 Hoophall Classic on Sunday, January 15, 2017, in Springfield, MA. (AP Photo/Gregory Payan) **FILE**

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Kreuzberg, once an impoverished borough of immigrants and leftist students, has been transformed into prime real estate in the center of a united city since the fall of the Berlin Wall. (Associated Press)

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Fixing Higher Education Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

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Illustration on lessons learned from the Kavanaugh hearings by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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In this Sept. 6, 2018 photo, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. Kavanaugh is denying a sexual misconduct allegation from when he was in high school. In a statement issued Friday, Kavanaugh says the following: "I categorically and unequivocally deny this allegation. I did not do this back in high school or at any time." The New Yorker reported the alleged incident took place at a party when Kavanaugh was attending Georgetown Preparatory School. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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Illustration on "substitution duty drawback" by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

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The entrance to the Georgetown Preparatory School Bethesda, Md., is shown, Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2018. Mark Judge spent decades mining his recollections and writing books and articles full of semi-confessional details about the suburban Maryland prep school he attended with future Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Now, though, Judge’s memory has drawn a blank. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

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Diane Headlee has been an attendant in the Shirley Povich Media Center since Nationals Park opened in 2008. The Maryland resident was an usher at RFK Stadium when the Nationals played there from 2005 to 2007. The Ohio State graduate coached basketball at American University and at Maryland high schools. Photo by David Driver for The Washington Times

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How squeaky clean is Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh? The New York Times had to comb through his high school yearbook to search for dirt on him. (Associated Press)

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The entrance to the Georgetown Preparatory School Bethesda, Md., is shown, Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2018. Mark Judge spent decades mining his recollections and writing books and articles full of semi-confessional details about the suburban Maryland prep school he attended with future Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Now, though, Judge’s memory has drawn a blank. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

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FILE--In this March 12, 2012 file photo, students walk across the Dartmouth College campus green in Hanover, N.H. Authorities said Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2017, that three Dartmouth psychology professors are under criminal investigation for allegations of sexual misconduct. The previous week the college said the professors were put on paid leave and had their access to campus restricted due to allegations of "serious misconduct." The college later told authorities it had received allegations of sexual misconduct. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File)

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Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, responds to reporters' questions on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh amid scrutiny of a woman's claim he sexually assaulted her at a party when they were in high school, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

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FILE - in this June 5, 2018, file photo, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos pauses as she testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. Preliminary data obtained by The Associated Press show the Trump administration is granting only partial loan forgiveness to the vast majority of students it approves for help because of fraud by for-profit colleges. The data demonstrate the impact of DeVos new policy of tiered relief, in which students swindled by for-profit schools are compensated based on their earnings after the program. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)