May 13, 2010
So the Provost sent out a year end wrap-up. For those of you who don't know, it hasn't been good year for academe, particularly here in Arizona. The income side of the fiscal picture is a di......
May 13, 2010
Student journalists write about the ongoing controversy over Arizona’s new immigration law, the dark side of sophisticated communications technologies, the National Day of Prayer, Washington,......
May 13, 2010
Arizona has passed a bill to end La Raza studies, which taught elementary school students to see America as a clash between whites and Chicanos.
May 12, 2010
We are pleased to announce that the current issue of Academic Questions, a special issue on “Sustainability,” is available FREE online!
May 12, 2010
In this week's Pope Center Clarion Call, John Eick (our intern and a student at UNC-Chapel Hill) writes about his experience in a "Diversity 101" training session. Turns out that this amounted t......
May 12, 2010
NAS predictions are coming true as the University of California opts for online undergraduate education.
May 12, 2010
Is the climate fraud investigation a breach or an exercise of academic freedom?
May 11, 2010
This symposium by eight student writers provides an inside view of campus life today and appeared in the "Student Culture" issue of Academic Questions (vol. 23, no. 2).
May 10, 2010
I just hosted a three-week colloquium exploring the relationship between great books and democracy which featured former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, classicist and military historian......
May 7, 2010
That's the conclusion authors Zeljka Buturovic and Daniel Klein reach from their analysis of Zogby polling data. I haven't read the article (in Econ Journal Watch) yet, but will probably hav......
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?...
