The Many Problems of Online Education
…attending to the issue at hand, and actually learn less in the process. As UCLA psychology professor Russell Poldrak discovered, “multi-tasking adversely affects how you learn. Even if you learn…
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How Federal Aid Drives Up College Tuition
…years of college, in large part because colleges don’t make academics a priority,” according to a widely-publicized January report from experts like NYU’s Richard Arum. “36% showed little” gain after…
What Will They Learn? Maybe Not Much
…expensive system of higher education. So what are students learning? They’re learning about music, movies and the party scene. At Vanderbilt University, a course called “Country Music” can serve as…
Three Cheers for Useless Education
…what you don’t know.” Even the venerable American Council of Trustees and Alumni maintains that a college education is ultimately about employability. “A college education is rightly part of the…
Check Out This Alternative to College
…learning, 90 percent of them as full-time students, according to Labor Department statistics for 2010. Yet only 20 percent of high school graduates ever manage to complete bachelor’s degrees—and that…
The Chilly World of the Campus Male
…have to focus on doing what needs to get done (e.g., homework) to get what they want (video games). In the process, they learn postponed gratification. They learn to focus…
In Defense of Bad Teaching
…de facto message here is be “inclusive” even if a waste of time, and don’t ever disrespect racial ethnic or racial sensibilities by arguing with the thin-skinned, no matter how…
‘SlutWalks’ Take Over from ‘Take Back the Night’
…flowing. It does not work so well when that same girl, wearing the same miniskirt, ventures into a part of town where the men either don’t know the rules or…
The Resentment of the Diversity Officer
…characteristics of the European outlook from the beginning is to explore other cultures, to learn about them, to record them, to incorporate them. To say “completely ignores the contributions of…
Bowdoin’s History
…allegations of excessive “liberalism” by the professoriate don’t reveal much, absent more information about hiring patterns. That said, a striking aspect of the subfields listed by Bowdoin’s history professors is…
Why Don’t Progressives Support U.S. History for Freshmen?
Herb London and KC Johnson have already posted on the disappointing findings of the ACTA project What Will They Learn? But it is worth pondering some of the implications of…
A Great Article on a Disastrous Act of Federal Meddling
…don’t understand the power imbalance between women and men.” I said, “You don’t understand the legal equality for which women have fought.” All fundamental fairness disappears from campus judicial systems…
Betrayal of Liberty on Campus
…warning to those of you who don’t yet have such programs on your campus. You’ll see why the threat to all schools is real. Until very recently, those who ran…
Beware the “Outcomes and Assessment” Movement
…Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. After attending a conference on teaching and learning in 2004, Plopper had an epiphany of sorts, and now uses Bloom’s Taxonomy to assess student learning in his two…
Debate at Tennessee State
…one student,” said TSU provost Dennis Gordon, “How many resources do you allocate to courses like that? Apparently whatever is necessary, according to the commentator in Wired magazine who called the decision “really…
At UVa, Girls Presumably Don’t Need Diversity
…and speakers for the camp will include UVA faculty, graduate/undergraduate students and professional women engineers. Campers will work closely with a wide variety of women engineerings [sic], and learn why these women love what…
Shortening High School to Three Years
…disappears when students choose early college.) “Just because the twelfth grade may not be fully utilized to its potential by many students doesn’t necessarily mean it should be done away…
A Minor Cut at Harvard Is an Amputation at UNLV
…to criticize the success of some who don’t live up to their expectations of high-mindedness and sophistication, all the while defending their right to do so. This is well and…
Diversity, Honor and Double Standards at UVa
…see what’s going on in his head,” says Turner. “Where was he going with this? People with normal thought patterns don’t do this. As we’ve seen, the argument that high-pressure…
Is There a College My Son or Daughter Can Trust?
…Fe may be right (but don’t mistake St. John’s as “conservative.”) If you aren’t put off by the idea of physical remoteness and you are ready for a rigorous liberal…
Why Do the Big Donors Give?
…and medicine accounted for the largest category of targeted donations. Campus building projects and student scholarships also ranked high for wealthy donors and their family foundations. Yet is was equally…
Writing Teachers: Still Crazy After All These Years
…responses to her questions by a Muslim student who had visited a Jewish temple. Dayna Goldstein of Georgia Southern University, however, admitted that her paper “Our Post-Humans Relations Don’t Understand…
The Campus Left’s Nostalgia Party – RSVP
…are talking about distance learning and other electronically-mediated forms of instruction, they are happening on their own, and they will clearly “expand opportunity.” Anyone eager to learn can find an…
There’s No Such Thing as Intelligence?
…fair to say that person has some qualities that aren’t possessed to the same degree by people who don’t often do intelligent things, at least not without prompting, and who…
A Desperate Defense of Affirmative Action
…states in proportion to their population, so institutions of higher learning, Chace seems to believe, should represent America’s racial and ethnic groups according to a population-proportionality principle. He doesn’t try…
Another Report on MIT’s Female Faculty by Its Female Faculty
…If an institution devotes enormous efforts and resources to improve both the numbers and status of its women, you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to get the idea…
What Characterizes the Modern Totalitarian, Corporatized University?
…former) friend to whom she sent the private message: “Please don’t pull a Larry Summers on me.” From the Summers affair grew an environment marked by intellectual inhibition on certain…
A Double Shock to Liberal Professors
…moral/political diversity; and we have created a hostile climate for graduate students who don’t share those sacred values.” Haidt concluded his address with a plea that social psychology develop a…
Do Female Students Need ‘Stereotype Inoculation’?
…would keep more women in STEM fields. The idea behind the research is that certain strategies “inoculate” female students against the sense that they don’t belong or are not likely…
Columbia’s Ongoing Battle against ROTC
At Columbia, how is it that the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” could inspire such heated debate among students? The average student opposing the return of the Reserve Officers’…