March 1, 2010
I rather expected a full article, but Inside Higher Ed today just has a "quick take" piece on the debate (topic: does the US economy need more college graduates?) I participated in last Friday eveni......
February 26, 2010
In a bold move, Superintendent Frances Gallo fired every single teacher from Central Falls High School, one of the worst-performing schools in the state. Gallo had offered the teachers a......
February 26, 2010
NAS is pleased to announce that Dr. de Russy has been honored with the Educator of the Year Award by the Queens Village Republican Club.
February 25, 2010
Tom Lindsay, president of the Great Books college, has made himself highly unpopular by insisting on a return to the ideals of Western civilization. Faculty members unanimously opposed a new mission......
February 25, 2010
Watch NAS chairman Steve Balch's remarks at this year's Conservative Political Action Conference on preserving liberty in higher education.
February 24, 2010
"Sustainability" is certainly one of them, but in this week's Clarion Call, I focus on the way "globalization" is being used as an excuse for creating new courses such as "global diversity."
February 23, 2010
If you haven't had a chance to read this column by William Pannapacker (writing as Thomas H. Benton), you owe yourself the pleasure. (Unless you are considering graduate school in the......
February 23, 2010
A former University of Buffalo scientific researcher, William Fals-Stewart, has been accused of using actors -- yes, hired, scripted actors -- as part of a painstaking plan to win acquittal in a mis......
February 23, 2010
As an undergrad, I spent one year at Berkeley, 1968, a year full of death, riots, tear gas, and bayonets under Peder Sather’s gate. I dressed in Levis, love beads from a head shop on Teleg......
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?...