August 16, 2010
Tenure has been discussed a lot lately and in today's Pope Center piece, economics professor Roger Meiners weighs in. He likens tenure to unionization. It causes some inefficiency, but can be an......
August 16, 2010
In Friday's Pope Center piece, English professor Sarah Adams argues that today's college students ("Millenials"), while often derided for their apparent indifference to serious reading and t......
August 16, 2010
Your op-ed relating to credential inflation is on point. Beyond college credential inflation there is another "credential" inflation virus that has infected the US. It is the license or......
August 12, 2010
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that 150 colleges have failed the Department of Education's test of financial responsibility this year. That means these colleges could be in danger of ei......
August 12, 2010
Writing for Huffington Post, Anya Kamenetz compares the huge level of student loan debt to the housing bubble. I'm glad to see understanding that we have oversold college spreading, but Kamenetz......
August 12, 2010
Must employers require a college degree? Jason Fertig argues that not only is a college degree not necessary for many jobs, but also that college grads may be less qualified for certain work than othe......
August 11, 2010
In today's Pope Center Clarion Call, psychologist Deborah Tyler writes about some recent research done at UNC, where students were told to imagine and then write about incest with a family membe......
August 11, 2010
Recently NAS alluded to the increased frequency of grade inflation among institutions of higher learning nationwide. According to a new study, students are now doing less work than ever before, but......
August 11, 2010
In a speech at the University of Texas this week, President Obama reminded the audience of his lofty - and contradictory - goals for higher education.
August 11, 2010
Students at 36 colleges and universities can now gamble on their grades—good or bad—through a website called Ultrinsic (an “ULTerior motivation that produces intRINSIC love of know......
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....
June 5, 2024
Ohio Northern University gnaws its teeth with an appetite for vindictive lawfare....
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?...
