The Rankings Will Always be Gamed
…undergraduates who prefer history-rich accounts of WW II versus, say, a lecture on why country A attacked country B using the Prisoner’s Dilemma format. But don’t even think of hiring…
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A Reluctant Vote for Legacies
…from bribery. But in those same places, colleges and universities are usually state-funded and don’t have to go hat in hand looking for private money. Corrupt as the practice of…
A Terrible Time for New Ph.D.s
…next. People considering graduate school with their B.A.’s—the graduate schools don’t tell them what it’s really like. They don’t tell them what it costs and what they’ll have to endure….
Cut the Sniping—It’s a Great Book
…students work little in college and consequently learn little. Most of us who have been in higher education for decades know that this is true, even when we don’t want…
When Students Are Rude and Disruptive
…Against Professors Who Don’t Utilize Technology. The students complain: “Don’t you hate it when you sign up for a class that SHOULD be really interesting, and it becomes your worst…
Let’s Change the Student Loan Program
…charges for tuition and room and board. British students don’t. American students customarily work at low-level summer jobs or even at part-time jobs during the academic year to contribute to…
‘Defend the Humanities’–A Dishonest Slogan
…denigrate the past in order to make the case for the sweeping social change that they want. That’s why they don’t look at the past and see accumulated knowledge and…
Cognitive Dissonance and Historically Black Colleges
…100 list of Liberal Arts colleges in 2010. Graduates of HBCUs don’t make as much money, on average, as their equivalents who went to mainstream schools. To many, all of…
The Exam Is Over
…exams. Here was History professor Charles Maier: “A lot of people said, ‘I don’t want to go through that.’ They didn’t say it openly. But it probably was a factor.”…
This Is a Bold New Plan for Higher Ed?
…students learned how to effectively learn new information.” Most importantly, he “learned much about the subject, and even more about myself” because of the way I urged all “students to…
Two More Reasons Why College Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up To Be
…And I know that the reaction I got from college professors and administrators—and students too—after I criticized today’s college education in Real Education was overwhelmingly of the “You don’t know…
How to Fight for Free Speech on Our ‘Sensitive’ Campuses
…ought to be their true goals; recognize that they borrow policies from other schools and often don’t even understand the implications of those policies; point out legal liabilities. To students:…
How Diversity Punishes Asians, Poor Whites and Lots of Others
…Even if they don’t shun such people, or hold their military service or aspirations against them, they clearly don’t seek them out or court them the way they do “underrepresented”…
What Happened at Berkeley in November
…simply don’t care—are respected and protected. In the absence of such universal protection and respect, political bullies can run roughshod over the rights of others, making a mockery of the…
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…
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,…