The End of Tenure and the Fate of Dissent
…believes. In these situations, they don’t fear a displeased dean or donor. They fear the bad opinion of their colleagues. Remember that in the “softer” fields of the humanities their…
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Reshape Universities Because of “Stereotype Threat”?
…discriminatory assumptions and attitudes that explain why some groups don’t do as well as others, that the solution is to change the way universities (and, ultimately, all society, which of…
Sustainability—More Cash and a Softer Side
…not science, seems to be the central concern. Students who, say, don’t believe in global warming or doubt that human activity has been the most significant factor in climate change…
More Subterfuge at UCal
…it’s not our admissions process that put a noose in the San Diego library,” he said. “I don’t want to see us misled into thinking that getting the board focused…
Banks Are Bad Things—Don’t We All Know That?
…of JPMorgan Chase & Co, speak at commencement on May 16. “Chase, “Chase, Chase, go away, don’t come back any day!” Syracuse students chanted at a “Take Back Commencement” rally…
Banks Are Bad Things—Don’t We All Know That?
…of JPMorgan Chase & Co, speak at commencement on May 16. “Chase, “Chase, Chase, go away, don’t come back any day!” Syracuse students chanted at a “Take Back Commencement” rally…
“Feelings” Education—It Starts in Ed School
…and learn in an environment where knowing is negotiated, distributed, situated, constructed, developmental, and affective.” Indeed, most colleges of education emphasize such “affective” and “cooperative learning”—even if they don’t put…
Why the Great Books Are the Answer
…Sousa in How The Brain Learns, is that past learning “always influences the acquisition of new learning.” In fact, the “more connections that students can make between past learning and…
Dartmouth Turns on a Dime
…but who has now been thrown into a parlous billet. “I thought I was going to take the first year just to learn about Dartmouth and ask a lot of…
The Failure Of For-Profit Schools
…don’t seem very inspiring, although they certainly beat completion rates at community colleges, where only about 28 percent of students achieve any kind of degree, no matter how many years…
Great Books In Texas
…of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, was formally organized as the “Jefferson Book Club,” and opened the fall semester with a reading and discussion of Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote….
Waste And Folly In Student Loans
…the vagaries of the secondary market and ensuring them a pool of lending capital. “I don’t like either of the programs [FFEL or Direct Loan],” says Andrew Gillen of the…
Yearning For Great Books
…peers see their studies as a tedious obligation. Part of the reason students (like me, initially) don’t pursue traditional liberal arts education is that they simply don’t know why they…
Another Success Story
…years of study as a time to ponder and evaluate and read read read. The general education requirements of most schools today don’t foster it. The McConnell Center and the…
The University Of Chicago – What’s Been Lost
…increasing one’s powers, seldom provide an education unbound by academic disciplines, and are stuck with too many students who don’t want to learn and too many professors who don’t want…
Responding To Weissberg
…just don’t understand how universities operate. Well, maybe I don’t. There is always more to learn. But still, that seems a little harsh. But we have about 3,000 other members,…
Rescuing the University, I
…his or her graduate students, “If I’ve made it by not drinking the PC Kool-Aid, you can, too, so don’t flee and if a few years you, like me, can…
The Rankings Go Global
…Higher Education Learning Outcomes that takes account of “outcome” measures such as how much students learn. For a thoughtful description of these see Ben Wildavsky’s recent article in Washington Monthly….
Be Careful What You Wish For
…the way.” (Me) “What do you mean? One hundred pages don’t seem too much for a paralegal program.” (Student) “Yeah, but I came here because I want to graduate. My…
Why Don’t More Graduate
…rates to America’s continued economic and educational leadership. We learn that increasing graduation rates is critical in achieving the objective of much larger rates of higher education attainment. BCM give…
Community Colleges Are Bulging, But…
…a short driving or public-transportation distance away from campus and thus don’t have to pay for dorms, community colleges are on a roll of popularity. Not only is Tri-C, for…
We Should Applaud Stanley Fish
…critics by casting them precisely as outsiders, people who haven’t done the work to enter the professoriate, and so they don’t understand what professors really do. Now, conservatives can claim…
The Poetry Wars
…poems don’t use jingling rhymes. Few poems are effusions that flow unimpeded from the poet’s heart. Poets work hard revising their creations, as manuscripts demonstrate, even for the most direct-sounding…
Are Ed Schools Failing?
…(many history teachers don’t know much about history, and many math teachers can barely add or subtract, let alone help youngsters learn those operations). The programs also waste credit hours…
Fuzzy Math in California Admissions
…and -1236 for whites. The category of “other” is – 220, and those who “declined to state” race or ethnicity, believed to be mostly whites who don’t want to play…
Teaching Twittering?
…the text-messages and twitters “aren’t graded, they don’t require research, they don’t observe grammar and punctuation and spelling, and they address peers, not adults.” Bauerlein is especially critical of the…
The Rise Of The Economics Major
…that less than a quarter of top schools required English majors to take a course in Shakespeare. The success of the economics major suggests that bright, ambitious students don’t want…
How Will The Colleges Cope?
…are used to seeing it this way, and I don’t think we are ready for the “green eye shades” who measure acceptability in terms of standards that are not intelligible…
Financial Pain on the Campuses
…campaign – but so far, the projected savings, many based on Tennessee employees’ suggestions, don’t look substantial: eliminating vacant positions ($2 million), trying to reduce coal, oil, and natural gas…
Why I Left Academia
…that the discrimination I faced was so pervasive that there would be no escaping it in the years ahead. Don’t misunderstand what I write in the paragraphs that follow. I…