June 16, 2011
A recent proposal to upgrade business curricula correctly pinpoints current deficiencies, but doesn't offer a credible alternative.
June 15, 2011
In this week's Pope Center Clarion Call, Steven Roy Goodman takes a critical look at FERPA (the Family and Educational Rights Privacy Act) and argues that it often impedes access to key informat......
June 15, 2011
College admissions offices wrestle with the bewildering contortions of race-based admissions.
June 14, 2011
In a recent article, the Wall Street Journal quotes Mark Zuckerberg, the kid from Harvard who heads the CEO of a company-not-yet-public. (Goldman-Sachs VIP insiders only, please). What disturbed me......
June 14, 2011
The president of Catholic University announced yesterday in this Wall Street Journal piece that, starting next Fall, his school would begin a phased return to single-sex dorms for undergraduates.
June 14, 2011
Political scientist Bob Weissberg reflects on campus affirmative action policies.
June 13, 2011
So argues Duke professor Michael Munger here. The hard left needs to keep up a stream of pseudo-issues to keep its base whipped up. When the FSU/Koch Foundation flap stops working, they'll repla......
June 13, 2011
In his speech on Saturday at the AAUP conference, Idaho State University Faculty Senate Chairman Phil Cole said, In the words of Peter Wood, President of the National Association of Scholars, a un......
June 13, 2011
NAS President Peter Wood explains how to approach NSF funding in the social sciences during a national budgetary crisis.
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....
