March 17, 2010
Recently, we took note of a story in the Chronicle of Higher Education which offered a retrospective from a professor whose office had been sacked and his research papers burned by student radicals......
March 17, 2010
Education school professors want us to think that they're experts who only have the best interests of students at heart. No doubt some do, but many are radicals who believe that good teaching me......
March 17, 2010
Federal control of the student loan industry could mean serious unintended consequences for the university.
March 17, 2010
To what degree has postmodernism's influence on American education, media, corporations, law, families, and military eroded our concern for public virtue?
March 16, 2010
There's a sobering piece by longtime civil libertarian Wendy Kaminer in the current online Atlantic Monthly about the perils of being an evangelical Christian on campus these days, especially if......
March 16, 2010
A reply to Lawrence Auster's blog post: ObamaCare as you rightly point out is a life and death issue. That means that the efforts to pass it necessarily overshadow everything else. The......
March 16, 2010
America's animating principle at its founding was virtue; its inhabitants instinctively claim that virtue, appealing to "liberty and justice for all."
March 16, 2010
Global warming evangelists use a peculiar form of apologetics to reassure the public that they're still right.
March 16, 2010
From 1973 to 2007, the percentage of students who enroll in college jumped 20%.
March 15, 2010
Earlier this month NAS covered the March 4 rallies in California and all over the country, where students protested exorbitant tuition prices due to state budget cuts to public higher education. Whi......
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?...
July 8, 2011
Professor Jonathan Imber clarifies concepts of sociologocal theory....