Mission of Higher Education

President Obama’s Graduation Delicacies

May 18, 2012 by Daniel Asia |

Comments on the President's graduation remarks at Barnard College.

Higher Ed and Plato’s Cave

Mar 14, 2012 by George Leef |

American higher ed is like Plato's parable of the cave.

Sustainability News

Dec 14, 2011 by Ashley Thorne |

Researchers determine that sustainability is now a science; Occupy Wall Street's sustainability committee plays house; Harvard looks to hire someone who can "cultivate an understanding of food"; and a debate asks whether the… Continue Reading | Leave a Comment >

Debate: Does the Sustainability Movement Belong on Campus?

Nov 04, 2011 by Ashley Thorne |

At Bloomberg Businessweek, Ashley Thorne and Paul Rowland debate: The campus sustainability movement subtracts from the better purposes of higher education. Pro or con?

Video: Naomi Schaefer Riley on Colleges in the Prestige (Not Teaching) Business

Aug 23, 2011 by |

Tenure and a heavy emphasis on research over teaching are among the factors that dilute contemporary higher education, says Naomi Schaefer Riley.

Keep the Critique Coming: Why Teacher Preparation Deserves the Spotlight

Aug 16, 2011 by Nicholas J. Shudak |

As education associations debate how and whether it's possible to measure the efficacy of the student teaching experience, a professor of teacher education argues that Americans must always be striving for educational reform.

Investing in Debt

Aug 12, 2011 by Peter Wood |

NAS President Peter Wood analyzes the burgeoning problem of post-graduation student debt.

Mission Creep—Does the UNC System Need to Own Hospitals?

Jul 27, 2011 by George Leef |

Duke Cheston writes about a controversy in North Carolina — should the UNC system keep expanding into the field of health care? It has become common for higher ed leaders here (and elsewhere) to proclaim that it’s part… Continue Reading | 3 Comments >

The Real Purpose of Education

Jul 06, 2011 by David Clemens |

Good teaching should result “in a lighting of those lamps in the mind and in the heart that shall eventually show the Way, the Truth, and the Life.”

Missionally Adrift

Apr 28, 2011 by Ashley Thorne |

The fundamental reason higher education is faltering is that colleges and universities have simply forgotten why they exist in the first place.

Ashes

Mar 25, 2011 by Peter Wood |

Peter Wood reflects on the intellectual vacancy at the heart of the contemporary college curriculum.

The Vacancy in the Heart of Higher Education

Mar 21, 2011 by Ashley Thorne, Peter Wood |

At the Chronicle of Higher Education's Innovations blog, NAS president Peter Wood shares some insights about what has been lost in higher education:

I refer to the slow disappearance of the sense that… Continue Reading | Leave a Comment >

If Even Krugman Says It…

Mar 15, 2011 by Peter Wood |

Peter Wood weighs the liberal commentator’s view that American higher education is no longer the path to prosperity in America.

My Top Ten List

Mar 04, 2011 by George Leef |

Academic Impactorators

Jan 28, 2011 by Peter Wood |

Peter Wood finds a more meaningful direction for colleges in the book “Academically Adrift” than in the U.N. program Academic Impact.