April 12, 2011
A new book on the internet's effects on the brain opens a window into this generation's world. Instead of learning to fight distraction, we are teaching ourselves to always be distracted.
April 11, 2011
At Pajamas Media, Steve Balch has a two-part series, "Is Our Civilization a Bubble?"
April 11, 2011
A coalition of faculty unions and organizations, including the California Faculty Association (CFA), the AAUP, the American Federation of Teachers, and the National Education Association, have creat......
April 11, 2011
In today’s Pope Center piece, Jay Schalin looks at the recent statement by the UNC system that appears to overstate the amount of teaching that professors actually do.
April 11, 2011
Christian Brady, dean of the honors college at Penn State, interviewed with Inside Academia this week on his leadership role, the difference between an honors college course and a regular course, an......
April 11, 2011
The truly disadvantaged are those who have not been sufficiently taught how to read and write and graduate from high school unprepared for college.
April 11, 2011
A UCLA whistle-blower lost his job after he called attention to a flawed report about air pollution.
April 8, 2011
My post “Betrayed by Higher Ed” has occasioned so many comments and emails that I want to offer a group response.
April 8, 2011
Thought-provoking sayings from a renowned historian and former NAS board member.
April 8, 2011
Lawrence Connell, who was suspended after students complained about his teaching methods, is now suing the university for attempting to damage his reputation and deny him academic freedom.
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....
