July 22, 2010
MTC: The Short-Selling of For-Profit Education
Charlotte Allen
The letter, dated June 17 and addressed to U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, made serious allegations of wrongdoing in the already controversial for-profit education sector: that representatives o......
August 18, 2010
MTC: ACTA & Its Critics
KC Johnson
ACTA's new, expanded survey of college general education requirements has earned justified praise. Here's Pulitzer Prize winner Kathleen Parker, from her column this Sunday: "The study and Web site do......
July 19, 2010
MTC: The Curious Case of Dr. Howell
KC Johnson
By KC Johnson As part of its more general---and oft-expressed---commitment to academic freedom, CUNY's Board of Trustees has a student complaint policy that appropriately balances the faculty's academ......
July 12, 2010
MTC: How Diversity Punishes Asians, Poor Whites and Lots of Others
Russell K. Nieli
When college presidents and academic administrators pay their usual obeisance to "diversity" you know they are talking first and foremost about race. More specifically, they are talking about blacks.......
June 21, 2010
MTC: Why U.S. Men's Soccer Will Now Decline
Charlotte Allen
The U.S. soccer team surprised most viewers by tying its first-round World Cup game with soccer-powerhouse England 1-1---and then tied Slovenia 2-2 in a match that many said the Americans should have......
June 14, 2010
MTC: The Wolfers Dig a Deeper Hole
KC Johnson
Inside Higher Ed took a look at the controversy over the "Crying Wolf" project, in which a committee consisting mostly of academics will pay for works of "scholarly integrity" dealing with contemporar......
May 12, 2010
Academic Questions: Free Online 'Sustainability' Academic Questions Articles
Ashley Thorne
Cross posted from NAS.org We are pleased to announce that the current issue of Academic Questions, a special issue on “Sustainability,” is available FREE online! To read it,&nb......