September 15, 2009
MTC: Community Colleges Are Bulging, But...
Charlotte Allen
Cuyahoga Community College expects to see nearly 30,000 students enrolled for credit on its three campuses in Cleveland when it opens for the fall semester late in August, with an additional 30,000 ta......
July 1, 2009
Academic Questions: Acres of Rhinestones: Temple Betrays Its Heritage
Stephen Zelnick
This article by Stephen Zelnick recounting Temple University's departure from the Great Conversation appeared in the "Case Studies in Academic Malady" issue of Academic Questions (vol. 22,......
July 6, 2009
MTC: "Poverty Studies" - Because There Are Never Enough "Studies"
Charlotte Allen
Here's one of the latest of those interdisciplinary and usually heavily politicized "studies" programs on college campuses: "poverty studies," taking its place alongside black studies, Chicano studies......
May 28, 2009
MTC: On The Right In The Land Of The Tenured Left
Harry Stein
What acid rain is to our irreplaceable forests, lakes and streams, leftist dogma is to American higher education. In every corner of the land, it has turned once-flourishing departments of English and......
November 5, 2008
MTC: Are Colleges "Failure Factories"?
Richard Vedder
Former Commissioner of Education Statistics Mark Schneider has caused a bit of a stir with a paper in which he argues that colleges are getting a free pass on a huge problem - a very high drop-out rat......