May 13, 2010
So the Provost sent out a year end wrap-up. For those of you who don't know, it hasn't been good year for academe, particularly here in Arizona. The income side of the fiscal picture is a di......
May 13, 2010
Student journalists write about the ongoing controversy over Arizona’s new immigration law, the dark side of sophisticated communications technologies, the National Day of Prayer, Washington,......
May 13, 2010
Arizona has passed a bill to end La Raza studies, which taught elementary school students to see America as a clash between whites and Chicanos.
May 12, 2010
We are pleased to announce that the current issue of Academic Questions, a special issue on “Sustainability,” is available FREE online!
May 12, 2010
In this week's Pope Center Clarion Call, John Eick (our intern and a student at UNC-Chapel Hill) writes about his experience in a "Diversity 101" training session. Turns out that this amounted t......
May 12, 2010
NAS predictions are coming true as the University of California opts for online undergraduate education.
May 12, 2010
Is the climate fraud investigation a breach or an exercise of academic freedom?
May 11, 2010
This symposium by eight student writers provides an inside view of campus life today and appeared in the "Student Culture" issue of Academic Questions (vol. 23, no. 2).
May 10, 2010
I just hosted a three-week colloquium exploring the relationship between great books and democracy which featured former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, classicist and military historian......
May 7, 2010
That's the conclusion authors Zeljka Buturovic and Daniel Klein reach from their analysis of Zogby polling data. I haven't read the article (in Econ Journal Watch) yet, but will probably hav......
January 24, 2024
The idea has caught on that the radical left overplayed its hand in DEI and is now vulnerable to those of us who seek major reforms. This is not, however, the first time that the a......
February 13, 2024
All signs show that American education is beginning a long and painful divorce with the People’s Republic of China. But will academia go through with it?...
October 31, 2023
A faculty hiring committee at the University of Washington “inappropriately considered candidates’ races when determining the order of offers,” provided “disparate op......
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?...
September 21, 2010
A reader asks, "If Elohim refers to multiple 'gods,' then Yhwh Elohim really means Lord of Gods...the one of many, right?" A Hebrew expert answers....
