June 13, 2011
The president of CSU-Chico declares that there is a “diversity imperative,” but inadvertently reveals his true agenda.
June 13, 2011
Chuck Rogér spots red flags in an ASU alumni magazine that represent a movement in higher education to politicize science.
June 10, 2011
I posted this as a comment on Richard Kahlenberg's Innovations blog post, "The College-for-All Debate" Peter Wood and I debated Education Sector's Kevin Carey last week in a four-day onlin......
June 10, 2011
At a June 2 hearing of the Congressional Subcommittee on Research and Science Education, Peter Wood urged for "cuts to be made shrewdly" to national funding for the social sciences.
June 10, 2011
One of the things I really enjoy in preparing Collegiate Press Roundup each week is finding students who are willing to say things that many faculty - and certainly administrators - wouldn't dar......
June 10, 2011
Student reporters survey the scene, including LGBT athletics, misdirected institutional priorities, the positive influence of bogus apocalyptic expectations and the problems of required diversity co......
June 10, 2011
David F. Forte provides a detailed legal history of originalism and investigates whether, and to what extent, originalism is a part of law school teaching on the Constitution. This article appears in......
June 9, 2011
I sent this letter to the editor of the faculty newspaper of the City University of New York, The Clarion.
June 9, 2011
NAS’s New York affiliate believes a CUNY resolution intended to help community college students transfer to four-year schools has the unintended consequence of severely undermining academic st......
June 8, 2011
It's pretty easy to find bona-fide empirical studies illustrating some of the major limitations of those student surveys that most of us are obliged to administer to our classes every semester.
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....
