August 29, 2011

Video: Andrew Ferguson on the College Admissions Circus

"The entire edifice of higher education now has a huge propaganda machine at its heart, relentlessly pounding home the idea that everybody should go to college." - Andrew Ferguson, father of a colle......

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August 29, 2011

Answering the Critics of Online Education

Douglas Campbell

The online classroom is different from, not inferior to, the traditional classroom, argue two faculty members of an online university.

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August 26, 2011

A Dispute Over Our Faculty Workload Study

George Leef

In today’s Pope Center piece, the provost at UNC-Asheville takes issue with the findings in our report on faculty workloads. She argues that they do more than we said they did. Author Jay Scha......

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August 26, 2011

Steve Jobs on His College Experience

George Leef

Read about it in this talk he gave back in 2005. He dropped out of Reed College after a few months, but stuck around to sit in on some classes that he found interesting. The one that interested h......

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August 26, 2011

Do College Administrators Misappropriate "Diversity"?

Peter Wood

A Johns Hopkins professor lays the entire blame for the rise of political correctness on power-driven campus administrators. But haven't faculty members played their part?

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August 25, 2011

Serve the Diversity of Adolescent Interests

Ashley Thorne

Does our society devote too much time and money to education?

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August 25, 2011

Is the "College Cost Disease" Incurable?

George Leef

John Moore, who served as president of Grove City College, discusses the recent book by Professor Robert Martin, The College Cost Disease. He thinks that Martin’s analysis is mostly correct, b......

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August 25, 2011

More "Food For Thought" From Sociology (If Youre On A Starvation Diet)

John Rosenberg

Race relations among students are better outside the classroom, where political correctness keeps them from speaking honestly.

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August 25, 2011

Multiculturalism and Western Civilization

William H. Young

Multiculturalism and its accompanying ideal of tolerance have debased standards of knowledge and excellence and led American education down a path of mediocrity, writes William H. Young.

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August 24, 2011

Subway Ride

Peter Wood

Peter Wood comments on colleges’ hard sell to underprepared students.

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May 7, 2024

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A Portrait of Claireve Grandjouan

Claireve Grandjouan, when I knew her, was Head of the Classics Department at Hunter College, and that year gave a three-hour Friday evening class in Egyptian archaeology....

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The Academic's Roadmap

By all means, pursue your noble dream of improving the condition of humanity through your research and teaching. Could I do it all again, I would, but I would do things very differently....

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Where Did We Get the Idea That Only White People Can Be Racist?

A look at the double standard that has arisen regarding racism, illustrated recently by the reaction to a black professor's biased comments on Twitter....

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Ask a Scholar: What is the True Definition of Latino?

What does it mean to be Latino? Are only Latin American people Latino, or does the term apply to anyone whose language derived from Latin?...

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Ask a Scholar: What Does YHWH Elohim Mean?

A reader asks, "If Elohim refers to multiple 'gods,' then Yhwh Elohim really means Lord of Gods...the one of many, right?" A Hebrew expert answers....