A Call for “Intentional Upheaval”
…the United States and Iraq. Seven Iraqi university presidents will soon be meeting with leaders at North Carolina State University, Texas A&M, and Ohio State. This is a wonderful, positive…
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How Will The Colleges Cope?
…the future of the university as I do today. Certainly the changes that are occurring within the university today are due, in large part, to some of the real difficulties…
Financial Pain on the Campuses
…avoid entirely, those tough decisions about the shape of a U.S. university facing a far leaner future. Many colleges are in serious financial trouble these days, thanks to the current…
A Small Stimulus for Colleges
…package aimed to stimulate growth. Among others, college and university presidents are likely to be among those sorely disappointed. Last November, shortly after the election, a group of college presidents…
The University Tomorrow?
Why I Left Academia
…nor had I engaged in sexual activity with any students, joined a fringe group, or embarrassed the university in any way. I later discovered that the university president belongs to…
Creative Destruction In The Academy
…fomenting a change in pedagogy and the delivery of knowledge. Presumably in an environment of tightening resources, the university as we known it will change and accommodate technologies that alter…
Colleges And The “Green” Ploy For Stimulus Green
…projects as wide as many college presidents would like. Back in December some 31 university presidents and trustees, representing some of the biggest public university systems in America, published a…
Shouldn’t All Students Learn Economics?
…future of our economy” and called for improved financial education in our nation’s schools. American parents agree—76 percent say that schools should be required to teach students about money management….
The Campus And The Nanny State
…America’s falling behind other nations in this regard. At the rather typical state university at which I teach, Ohio University, the annual in-state tuition in 1965, the year of the…
An Interview With Our Writer
…Professor of English and Emory University and author of The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future. To listen to this interview, click here….
Was Nan Keohane Worse Than Brodhead?
…any defense or settlement costs arising from the lacrosse case. In response to these lawsuits, the university has affirmed that future Duke students who run afoul of its unchastened, politically…
And A Bailout For Higher Education?
…31 presidents and chancellors of state university systems, along with five higher-education bureaucrats, was grandiosely titled the Higher Education Investment Act, even though no such “act” either exists or is…
No Stimulus Money For Colleges
…for new university construction projects. In the interest of full disclosure, I should say that I’m opposed to the concept of “economic stimulus” spending. The federal government can’t make the…
Latest Vanished Requirements: Harvard English
…be the kind of English major Harvard is likely to churn out in the future if the university’s education policy committee approves a plan approved by the Harvard English department…
New Questions About The LSAT Validity?
…student, it doesn’t correlate well with one’s future success as a lawyer. They had earlier identified 26 different non-cognitive traits that they said did correlate with future success in the…
Change Can Happen One Professor At A Time
…thing about it is that the pressure comes from within. Imagine yourself a newly-hired English professor at a university with a research dimension, however minor. You went into the field…
Who’s Acing The GREs?
…of engineer. Such are the results of an analysis made in 2004 by Christian Roessler, a lecturer in economics at the University of Queensland, in Australia, of the mean scores…
Are Colleges “Failure Factories”?
…costs, studies by university-employed economists notwithstanding. And, increasingly, universities are not particularly good at even achieving their vocational mission. First, of course, remember the one-third to one-half of students who…
College Green? Bah Humbug.
…But is that the role of the university? Not according to former Education Secretary William Bennett. “It’s interesting that the university theoretically dedicated to the marketplace of ideas has been…
Mandatory Summer Reading (Yawn)
…Both Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania and California State University’s Northridge campus have assigned Ehrenreich’s book to their entering freshmen and have invited Ehrenreich to speak during orientation week–although Cal…
Money For Even Preachier J-Schools?
In 2003 Lee Bollinger, president of Columbia University, decided that the one-year curriculum at the university’s historic Graduate School of Journalism wasn’t intellectual enough, because it focused on the acquisition…
No Tenure, Incorrect Citations, And Queer Studies
…and “quotation errors.” The authors of the paper, J. Scott Armstrong of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and Malcolm Wright of the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute at the University of South…
Those Thin-Skinned Professors
…the university or how much your students learn. Instead, you are what others say you are. At each stage in a career, advancement depends on the words and opinions of…
Trainwreck At William And Mary
…for the Presidency. Two of them were deans currently serving at the College, in education and law, and the dean of the law school at the University of North Carolina….
What Does ‘Sustainability’ Have to Do With Student Loans?
…And any college or university that is now licensing the sustainability zealots to indoctrinate students in the residence halls or the classrooms is making a doubtful guess about its future….
Worth A Look
…of students. Hopefully we’ll see more in the future, but there’s really no telling what they’ll look like. – And Margaret Soltan, on the University of Colorado – Boulder, home…
The Conference Radcliffe Didn’t Want To Host
…to host!” and “A genuine Debate with DIVERSITY of views on THE LEGACY AND FUTURE OF FEMINISM” not to mention “Ladies Receive an Additional 50% off” (the conference was free,…
Indoctrinate U. Was It Fair? Round II
…locations since. Peter Berkowitz, writing in The Wall Street Journal, called Indoctrinate U a “riveting documentary about the war on free speech and individual rights waged by university faculty and…
How Mismatches Devastate Minority Students
…order such as Albany Law School, the University of Maryland, Santa Clara University, the University of Tennessee, and West Virginia University. On the other hand, a student who fails or…