More Troubling News From Minnesota
…Counsel Mark Rotenberg’s letter are deeply troubling. “No University policy or practice ever will mandate any particular beliefs, or screen out people with ‘wrong beliefs’ from the University,” he encouragingly…
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Expel Students Who Might Kill Themselves?
…that such blanket involuntary removal policies infringe upon a student’s civil rights. Within the last few years, several high-profile law suits against George Washington University, Hunter College, and the City…
The Minnesota Case—An Institutional Diagnosis
…the “Race, Class, Culture, Gender” report extends far beyond acknowledgement: “Our future teachers will be able to discuss their own histories and current thinking drawing on notions of white privilege,…
A New Kind of Community College
The Obama administration – along with many in the opinion elite – is looking to the nation’s two-year community colleges as the primary vehicle to ramp up future Americans’ level…
Decoding Teacher Training
…believe; the relationship between future teachers and their schools; and the clearly political concept of how future teachers should view the society in which they live. The result is nothing…
Princeton’s Victory Over Grade Inflation
…based on student evaluations and student enrollments that frequently reflect past satisfaction with a professor’s grading policy, university teachers today pay a heavy price for bucking the inflationary trend. Perhaps…
Responding To Weissberg
(This is a response to Robert Weissberg’s “Rescuing The University”) Professor Weissberg’s “Rescuing the University” offers a compact assessment of the frailties of the movement to restore higher education to…
Rescuing The University, II
…by printing up their bogus currency. In a phrase: restore the gold standard of discovering and imparting truth. It is unnecessary to re-write university regulations to stop Ward Churchills or…
Rescuing the University, I
Part I, The Problem How is the university, specifically the humanities and social sciences, with its rampant anti-Americanism, anti-intellectualism, muddle-brained identity politics, hostility to the unvarnished truth and all the…
The Problem With Student Engagement
…mission of the university: University as Fundraiser. Strapped for cash in an environment of exploding costs and fees, academic departments and units (including athletic departments, which are becoming tails that…
Be Careful What You Wish For
…and so forth, so maybe we can find a way to measure specific learning objectives.” (Faculty) “What? I came to this university because I want to teach students, not to…
What African-American Studies Could Be
…State University. Forty-one fall semesters later, there are hundreds of such departments. Has what they teach evolved with the march of time? What should the mission of a truly modern…
Treating Adjuncts Like Peons
Here’s a fun job: adjunct professor, as described by University of Akron adjunct Maria C. Maisto writing in a Sept. 10 manifesto in Inside Higher Education: I teach English composition…
How UC Dodges Real Cuts
…system.” Although the American Association of University Professors has announced its support for the walkout (and the University Professional and Technical Employees union, which represents more than 10,000 UC employees…
Community Colleges Are Bulging, But…
…State University, Tri-C’s cross-town four-year opposite number (Tri-C was founded in 1963, Cleveland State in 1964) and one of 14 members of Ohio’s state university system, spends nearly as much,…
Not Your Grandparents’ AAUP
…The first episode occurred in July, after NYU extended a visiting professorship in human rights law to Thio Li-ann, a professor at the National University of Singapore. The appointment generated…
When Pork Goes To College
…Kentucky University Research Foundation, and $2.4 million to Northern Kentucky University); “technology upgrades” ($250,000 to Rockford College in Illinois); and “demonstration activities” ($150,000 to the University of Virginia’s College at…
The Ominous Rise Of The Adjuncts
…mere 27 percent of postsecondary instructors hold fulltime, tenure-track positions. Such figures are the familiar touchstones of debates about the nature and future of academic work, undergraduate education, and academic…
Colleges: Who Had The Money To Apply?
…State to SUNY Binghamton are seeing record application numbers. Oregon State University saw a 12% increase in applicants. Connecticut State University applications were up by 10%. Almost all state university…
When Campuses Became Dysfunctional
…the University – in which Kerr declared that the old ideal of liberal education within the college or university was officially defunct and was in the process of being replaced…
Cornell ’69 And What It Did
…university judicial board of violating university rules. These concerns were linked, for, according to the students, the university lacked the moral authority to judge minority students. They declared that Cornell…
Zywicki Out At Dartmouth
…The new regime—that the Board sits in judgment of itself—was adopted precisely so that any future petition Trustees could be removed after one term. Since then, the prospect of removal…
The Situation at the New School
…I hope that everyone with an interest in the future of the University will join us at that time for an open conversation about our core values, and how best…
Why Not Eliminate Tuition?
…families being given admissions preference at increasingly cash-strapped universities. But the Times article misses the larger point. Lawrence University, Colby College and Brandeis (some of the institutions mentioned) are all…
A Tangled Web At Berkeley
…asking was unseemly, and that it would be an embarrassment to the university if he sought regent approval of this payment when a deepening financial crisis was forcing an increase…
Don’t Cut The Sacred Cows
A modified version of this piece appears today in the Washington Examiner Georgetown University, like many colleges and universities hit by the current economic downturn, is in what look like…
A Look At Real Diversity
…intellectual heritage of our civilization. This is the kind of class that fans of racial preferences in university admissions tell us will be enriched by diversity. And I heartily agree…
The Trouble With Cutting College Costs
Harvard University, trying to trim its operating budget in the face of a projected 30 percent decline in the value of its endowment stemming from the current financial meltdown, announced…
A Call for “Intentional Upheaval”
…the United States and Iraq. Seven Iraqi university presidents will soon be meeting with leaders at North Carolina State University, Texas A&M, and Ohio State. This is a wonderful, positive…
How Will The Colleges Cope?
…the future of the university as I do today. Certainly the changes that are occurring within the university today are due, in large part, to some of the real difficulties…