March 7, 2011
I don't know if the allegations in this piece are true, but if they are, it's a stunning example of the viciousness of the left toward those who challenge their favored politicians. A profes......
March 7, 2011
In today's Pope Center piece, Tulane University sociology professor Carl Bankston writes about the important new book Academically Adrift in light of his own experiences with college students. Do......
March 4, 2011
Top ten books about higher education, that is. In today's Pope Center piece, I give my picks for the books people should read if they want to understand American higher education, and invite rea......
March 4, 2011
Where do states set the bar for teaching American history in K-12? Is the curriculum accurate, chronological, and clear? The Fordham Institute reports.
March 4, 2011
The progress of ideas was vindicated in a decision in favor of an academic journal editor who published a book review that the book's author found unflattering.
March 4, 2011
This week's student columnists complain about meatless Mondays and consider the limits of First Amendment freedoms and innovative pedagogy in Human Sexuality courses.
March 3, 2011
University of Wisconsin professor Donald Downs (author of the excellent book Restoring Free Speech and Liberty on Campus) has an essay on Minding the Campus in which he discusses the battle taking p......
March 3, 2011
Peter Wood has an interesting couple of articles on the Chronicle's Innovations blog this week. He compares Lily Bart, a fictional character in the 1905 novel The House of Mirth with Lady Gaga and......
March 3, 2011
Naomi Schaefer Riley writes in USA Today about the ongoing unionization of public higher education. The sprawling labor force of an ever-expanding academy has become a fertile recruiting ground for......
March 3, 2011
The new president of the Massachusetts Association of Scholars outlines his vision for the affiliate.
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....
