May 17, 2011
To be really effective in training students for "the real world," business professors should substitute business "classics" for impractical and confusing textbooks.
May 16, 2011
How university student governments went from taking responsibility for and pride in the "spirit of the university" to an attitude of entitlement and parasitism.
May 13, 2011
In today's Pope Center article, I review the new book by sociology professors James Cote and Anton Allahar (University of Western Ontario), Lowering Higher Education.
May 12, 2011
At a recent Liberty Fund Socratic Seminar on “Education and Liberty in the Digital Age,” the conferees considered whether the Internet cum computer constitute “disruptive tech......
May 12, 2011
Peter Wood spoke about the effects of federal direct lending on rising generations and higher education at a panel with the Family Research Council.
May 11, 2011
The media notoriously over-report epidemiology studies. One day, coffee is bad for you; the next day, it's the fountain of youth.
May 11, 2011
A statement of NAS's affiliate the New York Association of Scholars on the Kushner controversy.
May 11, 2011
A Pope Center event brings together a plurality of views to find common goals for higher education reform.
May 9, 2011
In the Chronicle's blog Innovations, NAS president Peter Wood weighs in on the controversy over the CUNY board's decision not to award Tony Kushner an honorary degree. Kushner has received 1......
May 9, 2011
At least that's what you'd think if you didn't read anything besides the Chronicle of Higher Education or its online counterpart, Inside Higher Education. I've long lost count of the......
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?...
June 5, 2024
Ohio Northern University gnaws its teeth with an appetite for vindictive lawfare....
