For the past month, I have been wrestling with questions that have yet to yield clear and satisfactory answers. For one, should an academic degree be considered a prerequisite for gainful employment? And is the labor market destined to rely exclusively—if at all—on academia as its primary job-training mechanism? Though not easily resolvable, these questions […]
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by the College Fix on February 24, 2025. With edits to match MTC’s style guidelines, it is cross-posted here with permission. Princeton University students can learn about “Investigative Theater for a Changing Climate” this spring. Students will create “an original work of theater” by “pursuing a creative inquiry into some aspect […]
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In his monumental work Culture and Anarchy, 19th-century poet and cultural critic Matthew Arnold laid out a novel curriculum that would revolutionize educational spaces in the coming century. Based on the Ancient Greek system of classical education, Arnold’s ambitious scheme envisioned the university as the center of cultural education—the cornerstone for understanding ourselves and the […]
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From 1636, when Harvard was founded, to about 2010, college enrollments in America tended to rise constantly, with minor disruptions, reflecting increased demand for higher education largely arising from population and economic growth. At the beginning of the American Revolution, fewer than one of every 2,500 colonial Americans attended college. By 2010, the proportion of […]
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