Why Tenure Makes Teaching Better
…smart phones (or tablets and laptops, but at Berry most students don’t bring computers to classrooms–yet another reason why your kids should come here) and fill out the evaluations in…
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Student Ratings Bait Profs Into Lowering Standards
…can talk about themselves,” don’t give students much time to fill out the forms, which increases the likelihood they will just circle all 5s and hurry out, and let students…
CAMILLE PAGLIA IS UNHAPPY WITH OUR COLLEGES
…disaster), the ideal first female president (Dianne Feinstein), what kids learn in high school (don’t bully), college now (summer camp, Club Med), what campus leftists should have been doing in…
The New History Standards—a Reaction Is Coming
…placing U.S. history into a global context (something laudable) but by downplaying or eliminating from the history standards items that don’t fit either a global approach or the ideological preferences…
How Students Intimidate Professors and Stymie Learning
…professor thinks “the Asians” have integrated better than “the blacks. … “I don’t see why that is insensitive or racist,” Hough added. ….. be denied life-saving healthcare by many insurers…
Did ‘Mattress Girl’ Tell the Truth? Not Very Likely
…soon.”) Is Sulkowicz a “false accuser”? We don’t know that. It’s possible that something ambiguous happened between her and Nungesser that night—something that she later came to see as coercive…
Campus Censors—Here’s How to Fight Them
…only three American colleges that don’t: Hillsdale College, Grove City College, and the College of the Ozarks. There are probably more, but not many. The advantage of this plan is…
College Students Now–the Good and the Bad
…we don’t even offer a genuinely high quality education, one that goes beyond the current shibboleths for which students actually don’t need to go to college, what can be said…
NOT IN AN ELITE COLLEGE? NO WORRIES!
…those schools is small, however, lots of students end up devastated when they don’t get in and have to “settle” for a backup school. Bruni quotes one young woman who…
Princeton Takes a Stand on Free Speech
…but there was also considerable support for a criticize-but-don’t-censor position. One columnist for the Prince, who sympathized for those offended by the Urban Congo skit, nevertheless offered some practical advice…
How the Far Left on Campus Ruined Liberalism
…MSNBC suggests that many within the liberal movement don’t want factual journalism at all, but rather opinionated journalism with a liberal bent. In fact, though they would have you believe…
‘The Rape Epidemic on Campus Does Not Exist’
…prudence and personal responsibility? Why don’t you send that message to a person?” I get the answer, “Because rape is never a woman’s fault. I don’t want to suggest that…
Madness at Michigan
…comes from environments where opinions are valued beyond their adherence to a so-called progressive agenda. I would call it the Don’t Be an Idiot Campaign — if only that word…
What’s An Ivy League Education Worth?
It’s mistake to conclude that “where you go to college is of almost no importance.” Even if they don’t offer the royal road to intellectual or professional success, elite colleges…
Would These Profs Make You Major in English?
…has suffered a smaller decline, only 10 percent since 2013. Those numbers don’t surprise me. When I joined the English department at Emory University in 1989, there were 350 majors….
Why So Many Students Aren’t Ready for College
…difficult material than whatever they are already reading—grade after grade—in a coherent reading curriculum. Most media outlets in this country rarely discuss these reading issues at all. They don’t find…
Attacking Free Speech: From PC here to Guns in Paris
…Unfortunately for “Charb,” extremists don’t know that common wisdom. Using children as hostages, three Muslim gunmen forced their way into Charlie Hebdo’s offices on Wednesday, executing targeted members of the…
Obama’s Tentative Plan for College Ratings
…cutting edge either when it considers such measures as average net price (taking into consideration the fact that most students don’t pay sticker price at an institution) or loan performance…
Do College Graduates Need Soft Skills?
…applying for a job or working at one. Surely some do, but some don’t. About two weeks ago Rutgers University held a job fair at which graduating seniors seeking jobs…
Are College Degrees the New Taxi Medallions?
…skill, answer with the latter. The taxi metaphor eventually breaks down, of course. Graduates don’t have metal labels on their foreheads, and slots for college admissions aren’t artificially capped by…
Toward Intellectual Diversity in Law School
…contrary, there is only one truth. And we want to find the truth, and intellectual diversity is important in this context because we don’t know precisely beforehand what the truth…
Do the Liberal Arts Today Serve any Useful Public Function?
…“Parks, Recreation, Fitness and Leisure Studies” than are awarded in all the fields of History put together. The liberal arts are dying because most Americans don’t see the point of…
Grade Inflation—Why Princeton Threw in the Towel
…to the recommended distributional template. Publicizing and shaming the more egregiously non-compliant — i.e. those with the most inflated grades — would be part of any successful strategy. I don’t…
The Battered Humanities–Are They Worth Saving?
…point. As George Steiner once put it in conversation, “The humanities have had 23 good centuries—don’t get greedy or upset that it happens to be coming to an end.” Let’s…
Can Games Save Higher Education?
…who don’t embrace Reacting “cling to familiar practices” in the face of clear evidence that Reacting works. However, the evidence is much more mixed than Carnes implies. Let three examples…
Making a Bigger Mess of Student Loans
…in Henry VI, who exhorts the crowd to “kill all the lawyers,” you probably don’t like the idea of giving those who go to expensive law schools and accumulate lots…
A Common Complaint against the Common Core Is Wrong
Conservatives and progressives don’t agree on many things, but neither much like the Common Core. The English and math standards, announced in 2010, have been rejected not only by professional…
Donna Shalala: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
…ameliorate the problem. Indeed, they were part of the problem. I don’t have the space to discuss these cases here, but I chronicle them in my book, Restoring Free Speech…
‘Bill, You’re Wrong about Common Core’
…favor immersing them in number theory. I expect a certain kind of mathematical pedant likes the Common Core approach: mathematicians of this sort don’t want students merely to learn how…
How Colleges Fail Their Students—and Society
…from the Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA), a post-college exam that tests students’ gains in critical thinking, complex reasoning and written communication. to conclude that students learn very little during college….