August 12, 2011
As Ashley Thorne reported earlier this week, Widener University law professor Lawrence Connell can't seem to get a break. Although he was vindicated of the frivolous charges of racial and sexual......
August 12, 2011
NAS President Peter Wood analyzes the burgeoning problem of post-graduation student debt.
August 12, 2011
Summertime student opinion writers take the measure of Texas presidential candidates, campus sustainability policies, creeping corporate influence and discriminatory "diversity" plans.
August 11, 2011
What is a bully? Well, I once got suspended for dealing with one rather directly when I was in 8th grade. The guy wouldn't leave me alone, and was pretty good at evading hall proctors and facult......
August 11, 2011
Today's Inside Higher Ed has a story about a new study on students from low-income families and their college choices.
August 11, 2011
NAS President Peter Wood applauds some recent policy statements by the AAUP.
August 11, 2011
William H. Young examines the impact of "diversity" policies on the American polity.
August 10, 2011
One of the most useful of all the tropes of statism is that the Great Depression was caused by the free market and exacerbated by President Hoover’s refusal to take the sort of bold interventi......
August 10, 2011
That’s the argument Professor Thomas Bertonneau makes in this week’s Pope Center Clarion Call. Research papers, he contends, merely encourage students to cobble together opinions by &ldq......
August 10, 2011
The final version of the association's statement skews the principle of academic freedom and fails to implement good faith recommendations.
May 7, 2024
The mobs desecrating the American flag, smashing windows, chanting genocidal slogans—this always was the end game of the advocates of the right to protest, action civics, student activ......
March 9, 2024
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....
April 20, 2024
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....
May 15, 2015
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....
October 12, 2010
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?...
September 21, 2010
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....
