Writing Teachers: Still Crazy After All These Years
…A performance, by the White Horse Singers, opened and closed the early morning address by Gwendolyn Pough of Syracuse University. The thousands of assembled English teachers stood and faced the…
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The Adjunct Problem, or the Adjunct Benefit?
…the privileged profs and the university accountants (none of whom would ever criticize the system, however much they profit from it), but what do we do about it? At a…
The Campus Left’s Nostalgia Party – RSVP
…in the past when these principles have been better observed than they are today, but our interest is in the future of the university, not its past. Thus I was…
A Desperate Defense of Affirmative Action
…Tier-6s with 500 SATs (San Diego State University, East Carolina University, Kennesaw State); Tier-7s with 450 SATs (University of Bridgeport, William Penn University, Long Island University); and Tier-8s with 400…
The GOP Was Wrong–So Was the Historical Association
By now, most people who follow either politics or higher education know the story of William Cronon. The University of Wisconsin professor published a lengthy post critiquing the policies of…
Two Campus Free-Speech Cases Aimed at the Supreme Court
…group at the University of Maryland-Baltimore that was in effect silenced in 2007 when forced to move a graphic display on abortion to a remote part of campus. University officials…
Arne Duncan Succumbs to March Madness
…Kansas State University, for example, all the white players are on the path to graduation compared to 14% of the black players. To be sure, a few teams (e.g., University…
Republicans Miss an Opportunity
…former University of Virginia climate change scientist Michael Mann. Since the election, the focus has fallen more on evolutionary biologists. The National Center for Science Education reports that anti-evolution bills…
A Double Shock to Liberal Professors
…out of our deepest ideological ruts. That is my vision for our bright post-partisan future. And here he is on religion: Surveys have long shown that religious believers in the…
Politics and the Demise of the Humanities
…and admits that justifications for the humanities are internal to the work of the university and only make sense to other university colleagues and the elitists who read The New…
How the Law Schools Went Astray
…universities that they were making a mistake in their rapid expansion to include professional schools and related departments. These essentially vocational extensions of the university, he argued, put at risk…
Students ‘Adrift’? Don’t Blame Them
…“What’s new?” In his fascinating book, Weapons of Mass Instruction (2009), John Taylor Gatto cites a 2006 study conducted by the University of Connecticut that affirmed that college students weren’t…
The Book That Shook the Campuses
…mutual expectation where professors ask students to do little and provide little in exchange. The modern university has evolved haphazardly over time to accommodate a huge variety of interests, functions,…
The Odd Cold-War Center at NYU
…Compare that with the Tamiment Center at New York University, which cares little for fairness, academic rigor or diversity of views. Its inaugural event four years ago, “Alger Hiss and…
Could the Feds Tell College Students What to Do?
…A report from the University of Southern California’s Center for Urban Education, according to an article in Inside Higher Ed, “embraces the idea that the United States must — for…
Do Rich, White Protestants Have a Big Edge in Admissions?
…child’s future opportunities and the economic future of a family’s future generations. According to published estimates, Princeton admits 41 percent of legacy applicants compared to just 9 percent of non-legacies….
Let’s Change the Student Loan Program
…November had been larger and more violent; in London alone 52,000 university students took to the streets to demonstrate against the planned cuts in educational subsidies. On December 9 university…
Sustainability—Splurging with Your Tax Dollars
…Harvard to the remotest of community colleges. What all the worrying is about, of course, isn’t the future of sustainability as a campus fad. It’s the future of sustainability as…
On Teaching Conservatism
…sociologist, is what should be called the disposition or attitude of conservatism. Here the famous address “On Being Conservative” , delivered by Michael Oakeshott at the University of Swansea in…
Do We Need More College Grads?
…society. The future is not hard to predict. If current conditions prevail, the deflation of a bachelor’s degree will soon be accompanied by a corresponding inflation in the value of…
Do We Need More Black Philosophers And Anthropologists
(And Fewer Black Scientists)?
…Markie, chair of the APA’s Committee on the Status and Future of the Profession, declared ponderously that “[t]he future of Philosophy depends on the development of minority scholars [and] the…
A Hard Case—Are FIRE and NAS Wrong about Jennifer Keeton?
…of her rather extreme anti-gay views. A lower-court judge upheld the university’s actions. FIRE and NAS have filed a powerful amicus brief, penned by Eugene Volokh, spelling out the potentially…
What Is Texas A&M up to?
Somewhere in America the president of a public university is getting hammered by the chairman of the board of regents. The hammerer—let’s say he owns a chain of automobile dealerships…
College Is Cheaper Than in the Mid-1990s? No Way
…of decades. The College Board’s estimates of net tuition in the past do not reflect this reality, which raises questions about the accuracy of their estimates of current and future…
‘Defend the Humanities’–A Dishonest Slogan
…a cry that has been heard many times in the past. As the segment of the university that has no direct link to a career-providing profession, the humanities have regularly…
Summer School on World Threats
…participate in a discussion of future scenarios and a crisis simulation exercise. The program’s co-director, Francis J. Gavin, a professor of international affairs at the University of Texas in Austin…
Why the Arizona Civil Rights Initiative Was Needed
…exaggerated, that quotas are already illegal, and so forth. Not so. Admissions data obtained a couple of years ago from the University of Arizona and Arizona State University law schools…
From Diversity to Sustainability
…the pollutions of the past to the cleanliness and efficiencies of the future. Both of them, he continues, “impose a general order” that extends across the campus to society at…
Don’t Pay Sticker Price for College
…family would pay more than $18,600 at Washington University. Instead of offering the steepest discount to the lowest-income group, Washington University provides its biggest price break to students from families…
ROTC Back in the News
…Harry R. Lewis, a former dean of Harvard College, noted in his influential book about the university, Excellence Without a Soul: How a Great University Forgot Education, the cold shoulder…