April 2, 2009
A response to a working paper by Neil Gross which asserts that professors do not try to force their views on students and which surveys faculty understanding of academic freedom.
April 2, 2009
The lesson from the jury's decision in the Ward Churchill lawsuit is that universities must be proactive in the enforcement of standards.
April 1, 2009
A university is about self-discovery, but in a sense quite different from person-centered therapy. It involves stretching the self and the mind with the thoughts of the great minds of the past and pre......
March 31, 2009
How the "students as customers" attitude and the self-esteem movement undermine good education.
March 30, 2009
In the first of this three-part series, Tom Wood contrasts self-alienation and student-centered pedagogy.
March 27, 2009
The University of Arizona surveys: do professors and others on campus use "GLBT-inclusive language"?
March 26, 2009
FIRE, student paper, CHE, and John K. Wilson weigh in on Virginia Tech diversity requirements for promotion and tenure.
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....
