This Is a Bold New Plan for Higher Ed?
…same way digital technology forced record companies to change how they sell music. This is the perfect postmodern prescription: no more hierarchy, no core curriculum, no shared knowledge or common…
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Not Just Another College Ranking
Forbes has issued its 3rd annual College Rankings, delivering its crown to Williams College. Comparison to the U.S. News and World Report list is inevitable so let’s not delay in…
How to Fight for Free Speech on Our ‘Sensitive’ Campuses
…laughter, outrage, smart comebacks, and strategizing were in ample supply. Since FIRE’s founding in 1999 by Alan Charles Kors and Harvey A. Silverglate, co-authors of the 1998 book The Shadow…
”Gender Gap” Mania
…region. More than 10,500 scientists responded to the survey from dozens of countries worldwide. (Full details of the methodology behind the survey can be found at http://go.nature.com/aSZqch.) Salary, of course,…
The Wolfers Forget Their Foucault
To continue the commentary on the Cry Wolf project . . . In the final sentences of the story on the project at InsideHigherEd.com, Peter Dreier offers this remarkable defense…
Shall We Rank Law Schools for Diversity?
Two law-school professors, Vikram David Amar and Kevin R. Johnson, recently published a piece in FindLaw.com on “Why U.S. News and World Report Should Include a Diversity Index in its…
Why Do Anthropologists Have Their Own Foreign Policy?
…Martin Wiener, a Professor of History at Rice University observed in a comment at Inside Higher Ed.com, “the level of argument linking the two would surely have been given a…
How Corrupted Language Moved from Campus to the Real World
…the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Common among these codes are, for example, prohibitions against “offensive environments for working or learning.” Even if fitting for a workplace, these types of…
Is an Endowment a Nest Egg or a Gambler’s Stake?
…with $2.1 billion at the end of FY 2009. In an interview with Forbes.com, Martin Dorph, NYU’s senior vice president for finance, attributed his school’s comparatively successful performance to the…
Why So Few Conservative And Libertarian Professors?
…more likely to have landed outside of academia. For example, in Anthropology/Sociology, 43% of the Republican scholars were working outside academia, compared with only 24% of Democrat scholars. In History,…
Why Free Speech Advocates Are Angry
…by Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (www.thefire.org). (Some of them may have been altered by now, but the fact that they ever existed is sufficient cause for response.) At…
The Problem with the “Boy Problem”
At InsideHigherEd.com, Richard Whitmire has an interesting discussion entitled “Soon-to-Be Open Secret” on the delicacies of the “boy problem” on college campuses. The problem itself is simple. An achievement gap…
Princeton’s Victory Over Grade Inflation
…institutions such as Duke, Stanford, or Pomona. Stuart Rojstaczer, a geology professor at Duke who has compiled extensive statistics on grade inflation (see his website www.gradeinflation.com), reports that about half…
English Lit’s Poor Job Market
…from the previous year, “the steepest annual decline in its 34-year history,” InsideHigherEd.com reported. This year looks no better. In particular, if candidates wrote a dissertation on Milton, Dickens, even…
Why Are Graduation Rates So Low?
…baccalaureate college had completed a four-year degree, compared with 51.3 percent in 2007. As the proportion of Americans seeking degrees has grown, inevitably we are receiving applications from more and…
Wonder If There’s A Core Curriculum?
The American Council of Trustees and Alumni has unveiled a new site, www.whatwilltheylearn.com, that provides a survey of core curriculum requirements at 100 American Universities. They evaluate the existence of…
The Cambridge Empire Strikes Back
…alumni sign their nomination forms. In the late ’80s and early ’90s, student and alumni activists pushed Harvard to divest endowment holdings in companies doing business with the white-supremacist apartheid…
An Academic(?) Conference to Combat the Right
…partisanship: “The Right in These Times: Understanding and Combating Contemporary Shifts to the Right.” So does the cast of characters. They include David Harvey, a Marxist geographer at CUNY; Columbia…
J-Schools Struggle To Cope
…Woodward and Bernstein went to work for the Washington Post. Only this coming fall term, under Bill Grueskin, a former managing editor at WSJ.com who is new dean of academic…
Be Fair, Harvard
…been posted at http://www.harvard.edu/alumni/candidates_overseers.php. This was not the first time I’d noticed the importance, to the administration, of its control over the means of communication to alumni (and even to…
Is It Bias?
…been struggling with her sexuality, faced the fact that she was bisexual and had come to the conclusion that Christian belief is compatible with a homosexual life. The Group said…
A Small Stimulus for Colleges
…research support for advanced institutions, but as for buildings or campus renovation, the colleges got nothing at all. For a summary of the Stimulus Package of 2009, go to: www.wsj.com…
Stanley Fish And The Storm In Ottawa: Seven Professors Say What They Think
…writings are posted at www.PeterBerkowitz.com. Jonathan Imber Cases about academic freedom are bellwethers for larger social and cultural unrest. They always have been, all the way back to the First…
Pomona’s Banned Anthem?
…been admired for academic objectivity. Time for reappraisal? Everyone can check out the story by visiting President Oxtoby’s statements on www.pomona.edu. Critical local comments are on www.claremontconservative.com, www.claremontindependent.com, and claremontca.blogspot.com….
The Next Bubble?
…who hail from out of state. Meanwhile, wages for most Americans have been left in the dust. Something had to give. The fate of the housing market comes to mind….
Ivy-Covered Hedge Funds
…endowment was up 46%. The College drew down its usual 5%, an imprudent indulgence in a fat year. Nine months later, after the dot-com bust, the budget was in paroxysm…
When College Rankings Are A Marketing Ploy
…I speak with lots of such students and their parents every year, and the one topic that is guaranteed to come up is: What should we make of the annual…
Attacking Larry Summers Again
On Forbes.com today, Harvey Silverglate responds to a New York Times blogpost by Stanley Fish on Lawrence Summers, who may be president-elect Obama’s choice for secretary of the treasury. (We…
Textbooks Expensive? Buy Them Elsewhere
…Michigan Daily reports on another new school-specific service, mtextbooks.com – Other options continue to emerge, as the Michigan Daily continues: Another new site, Uloop.com, which was launched in 2007, provides…
Review: “Feminists Say The Darndest Things”
…removal from a faculty senate email list after he complained about political discrimination on the campus (see, Adams was completely wrong!). Stories about the political character of the academy are…