April 7, 2010
The UN sustainability manifesto endorsed by many U.S. colleges and universities has its own 200-pound "ark" for transportation.
April 7, 2010
Fighting tuition increases is the innocent face of radical activism on campus. Recent protests led by college students have been rallies to transform civil society according to redistributive principl......
April 6, 2010
Last week I published "Bias, Barriers, or Biology" in response to the AAUW's March report Why So Few? on why fewer women than men pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and ma......
April 6, 2010
There's a piece at yesterday's Inside Higher Education which examines some new research on the ideological orientation of the professoriate. The authors of the study, Neil Gross and his Univ......
April 6, 2010
On April 22, as Nancy Kennon alerts us at Family Security Matters, students young and older will be guided in discussions or activities about protecting the environment. Parents, young adults......
April 6, 2010
Does using technology in the classroom advance or hinder the academic pursuit of truth?
April 5, 2010
NAS president Peter Wood has published a review of Diane Ravitch's new book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education. The book ou......
April 5, 2010
Massachusetts, where education reformers spent years creating strong academic-content-based standards and high-stakes testing for students and teachers, got zilch in the first round of the O......
April 5, 2010
Fr. Dwight Longenecker’s blog, Standing on My Head -- new to me -- is a find: wise, deep and funny. In “Stupidity and Tyranny,” recently posted and headlined by Winfield Myers......
April 5, 2010
1:00 p.m. While students wander in, I fire up my iPhone for some “bumper music.” Jackson Browne croons “Stay” but Devin asks, “Who did the original?" &ldquo......
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?...
