April 16, 2010
The budget crunch need not cause the sky to fall on campuses, writes Herb London. High time, he says, that higher education institutions adapt -- by adopting innovative approaches to financing and i......
April 16, 2010
Students write about "text-speak," Larry Summers, whether bad weather makes students superhuman, "gender justice," and the unwelcome selection of Martha Nussbaum as graduation speaker.
April 15, 2010
Inside Higher Ed today has a revealing story about grading and academic standards. Louisiana State has removed a professor who insisted on a rigorous approach to her introductory biology class at th......
April 15, 2010
George Leef highlighted his Pope Center article analyzing the Bologna Process, an effort to standardize European higher education requirements and make it easier for students to transfer to universi......
April 15, 2010
The shape of satire is circular; what a satire mocks can never be shown as improving because satire’s aim is to expose, ridicule, and thereby correct, similar folly in reality. Nothing cha......
April 15, 2010
Clarifying President Obama's 2020 higher ed goal - sending more students to college won’t make the United States the best-educated nation.
April 14, 2010
In this week's Clarion Call, I write about the recent book The Challenge of Bologna, which argues that the European higher education reform process poses a serious challenge that the US needs to......
April 14, 2010
Forget that taxpayers are being crushed by reckless government spending. Forget, for example in New York State, that they are being ground under by a $9.2 billion budget deficit for the newly......
April 13, 2010
Adam Scrupski, a former board member of the NAS, is quoted in today's Wall Street Journal in the article "The Fog Over Katyn Forest" by Bret Stephens. Stephens quotes a blog post by Scrupsk......
April 13, 2010
What does it mean to study literature and culture through Critical Discourse Analysis? Do you have any references of Latin-American authors that develop their work using this approach?
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?...
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 2, 2024
The most immediate work of conservatives must be the rejection of tribalism and a refocus on the individual—individual character, industry, and aptitude....
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....
