April 13, 2011
Berkeley physics professor Richard Muller, who is leading a new independent study of global warming, shares his views on science, carbon footprints, and global warming policy.
April 12, 2011
Is American humanitarianism related to a felt need to project an image of the US as compassionate, in contrast to its history of racial discrimination?
April 12, 2011
A new book on the internet's effects on the brain opens a window into this generation's world. Instead of learning to fight distraction, we are teaching ourselves to always be distracted.
April 11, 2011
At Pajamas Media, Steve Balch has a two-part series, "Is Our Civilization a Bubble?"
April 11, 2011
A coalition of faculty unions and organizations, including the California Faculty Association (CFA), the AAUP, the American Federation of Teachers, and the National Education Association, have creat......
April 11, 2011
In today’s Pope Center piece, Jay Schalin looks at the recent statement by the UNC system that appears to overstate the amount of teaching that professors actually do.
April 11, 2011
Christian Brady, dean of the honors college at Penn State, interviewed with Inside Academia this week on his leadership role, the difference between an honors college course and a regular course, an......
April 11, 2011
The truly disadvantaged are those who have not been sufficiently taught how to read and write and graduate from high school unprepared for college.
April 11, 2011
A UCLA whistle-blower lost his job after he called attention to a flawed report about air pollution.
April 8, 2011
My post “Betrayed by Higher Ed” has occasioned so many comments and emails that I want to offer a group response.
October 29, 2024
Today’s Middle Eastern Studies Centers are facing a crisis due to the winds of change in the Middle East and their own ideological echo chamber....
November 19, 2024
NAS welcomes the nomination of Congressmen Lee Zeldin to lead the Environmental Protection Agency....
November 20, 2024
With McMahon, the new administration has a chance to drastically slim down and depoliticize the Education Department....
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?...
May 26, 2010
A sampling of arguments for the idea that college may not be for everyone....
