February 17, 2010
In today's Clarion Call, my colleague Jay Schalin writes about Erskine Bowles, who has served as president of the UNC system for five years but is stepping down to work on a problem far more dau......
February 17, 2010
Campus administrators and leaders of sustainability organizations come together to think of ways to get "reluctant professors" to teach sustainability. Their answer: "Change how they think."
February 16, 2010
Professor Mike Adams writes here about a course taught in the education school at UNC-Wilmington, where the students -- future school teachers -- are taught Black English.
February 16, 2010
Well, the festivities, seminars, workshops and other aspects of Yale's recent "Sex Week" are over, but don't fret: there's lots of follow-up information available that may tide you over......
February 16, 2010
A Columbia professor calls global warming skepticism “scare tactics” and “propaganda.”
February 16, 2010
The murders at the University of Alabama at Huntsville evince a dire need for universities to shape the character, not just the ability, of intellectually gifted individuals.
February 16, 2010
Our Illinois affiliate president weighs in on the wacky world of sexual harassment codes on college campuses.
February 15, 2010
In today's Pope Center article, Professor Robert Blumenthal of Georgia College and State University argues that the mathematics requirement at most colleges and universities these days is just a......
February 12, 2010
Today is Charles Darwin's birthday, and the Intelligent Design community has declared a national Academic Freedom Day in his honor. The Discovery Institute think tank sponsors the Day, enco......
February 12, 2010
The title may be a bit misleading, since we've never suggested that genuine harrassment isn't something that needs to be dealt with swiftly and forcefully. But we've also had major probl......
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?...
