April 4, 2011
In this essay on Minding the Campus, Russ Nieli responds to a recent article in the American Scholar by William Chace.
April 4, 2011
In an excellent Wall Street Journal piece, Andrew Ferguson, author of Crazy U: One Dad's Crash Course in Getting His Kid Into College writes about his visit to one of the schools where his son w......
April 4, 2011
The current issue of The Chronicle has an illuminating piece by Elayne Clift, an adjunct professor who has taught at several colleges in New England. She writes about the sense of entitlement she fi......
April 1, 2011
Peter Wood compares higher education’s doctrinaire apologists to supporters of a discredited archaeological theory about the first peoples in America.
March 31, 2011
Student writers offer their views on sexuality and free speech, the difficulties of banning tobacco on campus, lousy movies and the state of gender equity in the United States.
March 30, 2011
What are the dangers of a third caucus arising in American politics?
March 30, 2011
Students should take responsibility for their own motivation to learn, not rely on teachers to provide it for them.
March 29, 2011
This Chronicle article covers a recent symposium on that most horrific of problems, an inadequate level of diversity. The focus of this particular symposium was insufficient diversity in the legal p......
March 29, 2011
Peter Wood comments on a new study claiming that self-selection by liberal students explains the leftward tilt of academe.
March 29, 2011
Peter Wood comments on a study that looked for political bias in graduate schools
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....
