November 15, 2010
We shouldn't save the humanities as they are now are, argues John Ellis, president of the California Association of Scholars. If we do, we are simply reinforcing the radical, destructive ideolog......
November 12, 2010
Our friends at the Center for College Affordability and Productivity (CCAP) have released the first in a 5-part, book-length report called "25 Ways to Reduce the Cost of College." NAS applauds this in......
November 12, 2010
An NAS member sent me this video for fundraising at Princeton, describing the work of the university's office of sustainability. There are a few things in this video to be concerned about. The eff......
November 12, 2010
Jason Fertig calls for long-term thinking about faculty employment and evaluation. If tenure were to be abolished, what would take its place?
November 12, 2010
How colleges transform increases in federal student aid into higher tuition and fees.
November 10, 2010
Andrew Hacker, co-author of Higher Education? How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids—And What We Can Do About It, has great things to say about a college near and dear to u......
November 10, 2010
That, anyway, is an explanation we sometimes hear from the higher education establishment. Colleges are supposedly helpless victims of rising costs, particular because rising productivity elsewhere......
November 10, 2010
Peter Wood predicts that online education, either rigorous or at “the level of a video game,” will become a standard feature of American college instruction.
November 10, 2010
Colleges and universities are now assessing faculty members' work in and commitment to sustainability.
November 9, 2010
A recent Pope Center article in which a number of economics professors explained why they find that students comprehend the subject better if they avoid mathematics and focus exclusively on the logi......
March 31, 2025
Columbia's descent into chaos is by its own hand. Actions to right the university must be swift and tough....
March 24, 2025
Are American colleges and universities finally getting their comeuppance?...
April 15, 2025
The academic bureaucracies and professoriate are so deeply committed to their radical program of replacing American society with their own vision of a new order that we have no real choice b......
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....
April 15, 2025
The academic bureaucracies and professoriate are so deeply committed to their radical program of replacing American society with their own vision of a new order that we have no real choice b......
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?...
