April 5, 2011
Richard Vedder, president of the CCAP, interviewed with Inside Academia this week on the economics of college education and on why tuition costs have gotten to be so high.
April 5, 2011
The academy undermines itself when it belittles the efforts of earlier generations of scholars.
April 4, 2011
In this essay on Minding the Campus, Russ Nieli responds to a recent article in the American Scholar by William Chace.
April 4, 2011
In an excellent Wall Street Journal piece, Andrew Ferguson, author of Crazy U: One Dad's Crash Course in Getting His Kid Into College writes about his visit to one of the schools where his son w......
April 4, 2011
The current issue of The Chronicle has an illuminating piece by Elayne Clift, an adjunct professor who has taught at several colleges in New England. She writes about the sense of entitlement she fi......
April 1, 2011
Peter Wood compares higher education’s doctrinaire apologists to supporters of a discredited archaeological theory about the first peoples in America.
March 31, 2011
Student writers offer their views on sexuality and free speech, the difficulties of banning tobacco on campus, lousy movies and the state of gender equity in the United States.
March 30, 2011
What are the dangers of a third caucus arising in American politics?
March 30, 2011
Students should take responsibility for their own motivation to learn, not rely on teachers to provide it for them.
March 29, 2011
This Chronicle article covers a recent symposium on that most horrific of problems, an inadequate level of diversity. The focus of this particular symposium was insufficient diversity in the legal p......
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....
