July 1, 2009
This article by Stephen Zelnick recounting Temple University's departure from the Great Conversation appeared in the "Case Studies in Academic Malady" issue of Academic Questions (vol. 22, no. 3......
June 30, 2009
Blogging professors urge fellow academics to update their commitment to identity politics and sustainability.
June 30, 2009
Amaze your education colleagues with randomly assembled education phrases such as "Let's mesh mission-critical higher-order thinking!"
June 30, 2009
A new organization, the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa, upholds reasoned inquiry and the pursuit of the truth.
June 29, 2009
What principles about racial discrimination can we take from the case of the firefighters in New Haven?
June 29, 2009
This interview appeared in the "Case Studies in Academic Maladies" issue of Academic Questions (vol. 22, no. 3)
June 26, 2009
Michael Jackson blurs, Governor Sanford trips, Farrah Fawcett strolls, and fermions chill out. NAS rides the news cycle.
June 26, 2009
Robert Jackson says the higher ed zoo needs a Great Conversation.
June 25, 2009
Green news: go asparaguses, intelligent life isn't sustainable in outer space either, and messages from AASHE.
June 24, 2009
This year a UC Santa Barbara professor sent an email to his class, comparing Israeli actions to those of the Nazis. But where did this professor's academic field, "critical globalization studies"......
June 6, 2024
We have undermined the leftist status quo in higher education for decades with the persistence of Morlocks. You really should be more alarmed about us than you are. Not that I’m going......
July 30, 2024
The dark secret of anti-Semitism is that ignorance alone cannot explain it away or absolve those who adhere to it. If anything, the most vivid episodes of history’s anti-Semitism have......
August 6, 2024
An assessment of the Republican higher education platform....
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....
September 6, 2024
Audio acquired by the National Association of Scholars describes allegations of coverup race-based hiring coverup at the University of Washington...
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?...
