April 2, 2009
The lesson from the jury's decision in the Ward Churchill lawsuit is that universities must be proactive in the enforcement of standards.
April 1, 2009
A university is about self-discovery, but in a sense quite different from person-centered therapy. It involves stretching the self and the mind with the thoughts of the great minds of the past and pre......
March 31, 2009
How the "students as customers" attitude and the self-esteem movement undermine good education.
March 30, 2009
In the first of this three-part series, Tom Wood contrasts self-alienation and student-centered pedagogy.
March 27, 2009
The University of Arizona surveys: do professors and others on campus use "GLBT-inclusive language"?
March 26, 2009
FIRE, student paper, CHE, and John K. Wilson weigh in on Virginia Tech diversity requirements for promotion and tenure.
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?...
