February 14, 2011
Peter Wood's Chronicle article on the Piven-Beck controversy has been getting a lot of attention from five noteworthy online forums.
February 14, 2011
I suspect the answer to that question is "no." As evidence, I'll point to a conference last fall devoted to the British comedy group Monty Python.
February 14, 2011
The ed-blogosphere overflows with predictions of a “higher education bubble,” but I find no mention of one thing that epitomizes the whole sorry mess: the Ed.D. For many Ph.Ds......
February 14, 2011
This week Peter was a guest in a video interview with Inside Academia in which he spoke about the convergence of campus politicization and the push to put more students through college.
February 14, 2011
So college students aren't learning much. Let's do something to change that, Jason Fertig urges.
February 11, 2011
Peter Wood has a column on the Piven-Beck controversy in today's Chronicle. He writes, "Beck’s attention to Piven has driven much of the media interest in the story—but also much of......
February 11, 2011
A major survey of books Harvard University Press published from 2000-2010 raises important questions about the impartiality of this leading academic publisher.
February 11, 2011
This week, student journalists comment on the upheavals in Egypt, a campus police force, anxiety about graduation and whether a state needs an official pie.
February 9, 2011
Nearly a third of community college students were unable to enroll in one or more classes last semester because they were full, according to a new national survey.
May 20, 2025
The anecdotal evidence is starting to pile up while academia’s thesis that white men are source of evil continues to crumble....
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Columbia's descent into chaos is by its own hand. Actions to right the university must be swift and tough....
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Are American colleges and universities finally getting their comeuppance?...
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The anecdotal evidence is starting to pile up while academia’s thesis that white men are source of evil continues to crumble....
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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....
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We celebrate and remember the life of David Horowitz, a champion of intellectual freedom and truth-telling during a long era of lies, collective self-deception, and institutional malfea......
