August 4, 2010
Stephen Schwartz demolishes the claim by Georgetown Professor John L. Esposito that criticism of the mosque project amounts to "Islam-bashing charges leveled with no concrete evidence by p......
August 4, 2010
The death of tenure would mean the supply of high quality faculty members would shrink, argues Bruce Heiden.
August 3, 2010
A reader asks, "What caused the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico?" An expert in mechanical engineering answers.
August 3, 2010
This edition of sustainability-in-higher-ed news includes the University of Toledo’s new curricular residence life programs in sustainability; UNC’s workshop to help participants explore o......
August 2, 2010
We hear a lot of chatter about how it's so vital that we get more young Americans through college because college teaches them the "higher skills" that the globalized "knowledge economy" demands......
August 2, 2010
Medical school admissions people apparently think that medical training has been going too much toward students with demonstrated aptitude in science and the nation would be better served if more me......
August 2, 2010
In 2009, I blogged on the budding movement for open-source and commercially free textbooks coming on the market. The latter vendors often hope to make money by charging for the printing of online te......
August 2, 2010
Blogging at Harvard Business Review, Michael Schrage makes a strong case that higher education has been oversold. What people need to succeed are skills and college is neither necessary nor sufficie......
August 2, 2010
The University of Illinois has restored Professor Kenneth Howell to his position after dismissing him for an email he sent discussing Catholic teaching on homosexuality and natural law.
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?...
