March 29, 2010
In an insightful commentary at In Character (subtitled "a journal of everyday virtues"), Naomi Schaefer Riley examines how academe evolved from Socrates's dictum, "All I know is that I know noth......
March 29, 2010
I was just looking over Kant's On Education. He died in 1804 when Germany was but on the cusp of industrialization (it considerably lagged Great Britain). Kant emphasizes home school......
March 29, 2010
NAS is working not just to reform the university, but to reform the character of the next generation. We want to see the academy produce gentlemen and gentlewomen scholars.
March 29, 2010
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March 26, 2010
University of Michigan history professor Juan Cole has long taken radical, public positions on the ongoing struggle in the Middle East. As Winfield Myers writes, he has&nbs......
March 26, 2010
Peter Wood appeared on University Talk radio to explain what will happen when student loans come directly from the government.
March 26, 2010
Fewer women than men pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and math. Is this really the big problem AAUW would have us believe?
March 25, 2010
Today's Inside Higher Education has a lead article about an unfolding crisis at Wellesley College, where members of the freshman class are "seething" with indignation. No, the school hasn't......
March 25, 2010
Madonna Constantine has lost her lawsuit against Columbia, reports the Washington Monthly. The University had investigated the Teachers College professor and found her guilty of plagiarism on multiple......
March 25, 2010
On college campuses, the "student programmers" could use with a bit of anger management. On my campus there is the obligatory Vagina Monologues sticking to the script of the "angry vaginas" and other......
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?...
