…observe that persistence recently. The occasion was the inaugural conference of the University of Arizona’s Center for American Culture and Ideas (CACI) held in Tucson. Titled “The Future of (High)…

…voice to the virulent partisanship that is so prevalent today. “We are here,” the former president and future First Gentleman wannabe asserted, “because the Civil Rights Act and the Voting…

…increasingly to our present. I don’t need to belabor that. She explains that Harvard has a big role to play; Harvard is accountable to the future, & etc. The university,…

…to educate but rather to indoctrinate students into relativism’s willfully unexamined assumptions. On this latter point, no less than Harvard’s recent report on the humanities, “Mapping the Future,” agrees. The…

…made pursuant to an ‘informal policy’ at the University of obtaining funding to hire candidates who were under-represented minorities even if the University did not have a position open.” Over…

…is in place, there seems to be little hope that the “Dear Colleague” letter will be set aside. But this move retains the option that some future Education Department will…

…Earth, Society and Environment at the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, delivered the lectures, which are based on a similar class he teaches in person. MOOCs aren’t bound to the semester…

For decades critics have lamented that big time college sports have a corrupting influence on college and university campuses. Big time sports push aside the educational goals of the university,…

…feds would exit the student loan business, replacing it with private entrepreneurs making loans or buying equity in future student earnings, thereby ending the need for “gainful employment” regulation. That…

…do an especially good job at preparing students for college. As anyone (including me) who has taught freshmen at a “selective” college or university can attest, a great many students…

…religiously affiliated and subsidized state universities. College is Not That Expensive As a former administrator of the State University of New York, the United States’ largest unified system of higher…

…members of the Duke University lacrosse team were playing out in the headlines across the country–and when revelations of factual problems with the alleged victim’s account of the events began…

…the 1960s and 1970s. The protesters–who number in the low hundreds–exhibit all the trappings of their forebears. We see clenched fists and hear slogans like “Whose University? Our University!,” “No…

…who manage to graduate college will find jobs that require background checks (a common phenomenon in our security-conscious times) foreclosed to them in the future. For actual rapists, of course,…

…include: training faculty “to better recognize and help these students thrive and advance”; conducting research about “what factors impact their attitudes, experiences and preparation for the future”; “sponsoring annual retreats…

…learning about it in “Introduction to Sustainability,” an eight-week MOOC offered on Coursera by the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. I’m taking the MOOC both because I’m interested in the sustainability…

By Peter Augustine Lawler The president of Harvard, Drew Gilpin Faust, was asked by The Wall Street Journal to defend the skyrocketing cost of attending her university. The total residential…

…at promoting such diversity, and whether Provost Pollack’s email did not leave out gaping holes in the diversity program of the university. As students at the University of Michigan, we…

…schools have announced intentions to give transfer credits on the basis of MOOCs. (See Georgia State University, University of Maryland, American Public University, Central Michigan University, Western Carolina University, Kaplan…

…of Teresa Sullivan, the recently fired, rehired, and now secure president of the University of Virginia. Sullivan’s impressive curriculum vitae is packed with high-level university positions in the University of…

…and an internet connection could receive a first-rate education. A widely discussed University of Pennsylvania study of MOOCs, however, dampened those hopes. Analyzing some 1 million users of 16 courses…

…big city government and, increasingly, academia. The Left has a hard time coming to grips with the prospect that the latter day equivalent of Standard Oil may be the University…

…of their critical thinking and writing skills. Right now a student graduating from, say, California State University at Fresno, Kansas State University, or the State University of New York at…

…the head of the National Academy of Engineering. I served with Vest on the Spellings Commission on the Future of Higher Education in 2005-2006. Some of us (to an extent…

…closed with a simple message: colleges should “leave justice to the justice system.” No Counsel Allowed A few weeks later, the student newspaper at the University of North Carolina, the…

…He was expelled from school and has been barred from the campus for life. It’s a scandal whenever a university–a public university, no less–fails to provide reasonable due process when…

…calculate likely future earnings based on university, major, grades, and professional experience. This rate usually lies between 4 percent and 7 percent of income and enables investors to make informed…

…popular among administrators, and attractive to millions of course registrants, MOOCs are not likely to face extinction. Their future probably lies somewhere between adapting to a niche clientele and rebounding…

…model. Thrun’s predictions were probably the most radically optimistic of the group, but the idealism of the others wasn’t too far behind. “We envision a future where everyone has access…