Stephen Porter

Stephen Porter is a Professor in the College of Education at North Carolina State University, where he teaches graduate courses in statistics, causal inference, and workflow of data analysis. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Rochester, with a concentration in econometrics.

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Rufo: Center-right critics are missing the mark on DEI

“Since Inauguration Day, the Trump administration has taken decisive action against DEI in universities, threatening to investigate, punish, and withhold funding from higher education institutions that discriminate in the name of diversity. Most conservatives, who correctly see DEI as a threat to colorblind equality, have celebrated these maneuvers. But some center-right intellectuals, who...

25% of CA community college applicant are fake, and they’re using AI to get financial aid

“25% of CA community college applicant are fake, and they’re using AI to get financial aid”College officials suspect most of the fake students are bots and often, they display tell-tale signs. In Sacramento, community colleges started seeing an influx of applications from Russia, China, and India during the start of the pandemic. Around the same time, administrators at Mt. San...

Interesting data: No one wants to defend Western EuropE

But the Scandinavians get it:

European countries are all increasing their Defence budgets, but they can't seem to buy a willingness to fight.Nobody wants to defend Western-Europe anymore. Right-wing youth feel betrayed by their hostile ruling elites. Left-wing youth are weak and selfhating. Meanwhile,… pic.twitter.com/6i7KcCVBMg— Dries Van Langenhove (@DVanLangenhove) February 27, 2025

“Higher Ed Is the New Big Oil”

Great column by Frederick Hess: “Big Higher Ed’s leaders don’t really grasp that they’re seen as self-interested, dishonest, and out-of-touch. Nor do they see the extent to which bribery-based admissions, college costs, and student loan debt have eroded support on the left. They don’t appreciate how much the tales of woe used to promote Biden’s student loan “forgiveness” fed the conviction...

My op-ed on how universities are ripping off the Feds via research grants just published by the Washington Examiner

The ungated version is here. Intro: “Universities are protesting the Trump administration’s plan to limit the overhead, also known as indirect costs, covered by federal research grants. They argue this change violates a long-standing post-World War II agreement, rooted in Vannevar Bush’s 1945 report “Science, The Endless Frontier.” That agreement was simple: The federal government would...

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Professor and quant guy. Libertarian turned populist Republican. Trying to learn Japanese and play Spanish Baroque music on the ukulele.

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