From the Eastern Nazarene College (Quincy, Massachusetts) website: The Board of Trustees of Eastern Nazarene College today announced it has voted unanimously to begin the process of closing ENC and transitioning it into a new educational enterprise that will carry […]
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Compassionate college closures: an exhortation
Is it possible to navigate college closings ethically and compassionately?
More questions about Cornerstone University’s decision to fire humanities professors
Not familiar with this story? Get up to speed here and here and here. Cornerstone University is trying to refute our claims that it has eliminated all arts and humanities programs. In an interview with MinistryWatch blogger Warren Cole Smith, Cornerstone spokesperson Heide […]
Cornerstone University responds to our story on faculty cuts and the termination of humanities and arts programs
Earlier this week, we called your attention to Cornerstone University’s decision to fire tenured professors and terminate all humanities and arts programs. Get up to speed here. Yesterday, WOOD TV-8 the Grand Rapids NBC affiliate, did a story on our […]
Cornerstone University fires tenured professors and terminates all humanities and arts programs
I recently finished Rick Ostrander’s memoir focused on his career in evangelical higher education. Among Rick’s many stops in Christian college leadership was Cornerstone University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He served as provost at the university from 2009 to 2015. […]
What is going on at Grace College?
In June 20, 2017, Grace College and Theological Seminary in Winona Lake, Indiana fired three white employees after they posed for a racially insensitive mock rap album cover. The photo of the “album cover” was posted on Facebook. Read more […]
Essential Latin for graduation season
Congrats, grads! Please utilize Latin terms responsibly!
The encouraging work of Upper House in Madison, WI
What does higher education need next?
Adjunctify U
Valuing people and investing in them is not just the morally right thing to do. It’s also good business. Even in academia.
Not all college presidents are keepers
When there are so many other scandals, some much worse, I am personally begging you: do not use up your ire on Claudine Gay.
Randall Balmer on the resignation of Claudine Gay at Harvard
Here is the American religious historian‘s column at Valley News: In the late 1980s, while I was teaching at Columbia University, I received an urgent request to attend a meeting at Union Theological Seminary. I don’t recall everyone who was […]
Yes, universities should offer courses on Taylor Swift
Should Harvard offer courses on Taylor Swift? Of course it should. Everyone is talking about a course at Harvard titled “Taylor Swift and Her World.” Here is some context from Stephanie Burt, the English professor who will be teaching the […]
A liberal arts education is good for your mental health
Rosario Ceballo is a psychologist, expert on adolescent development, and dean of Georgetown University’s College of Arts & Sciences. Here is a taste of her piece at Inside Higher Ed: I began my role as dean of the College of […]
Shirley Hoogstra will retire as president of the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities
Here is the press release: WASHINGTON, D.C., December 18, 2023—The Council for Christian Colleges & Universities (“CCCU”), the leading national voice of Christian higher education, today announced that Shirley Hoogstra is retiring as the president, effective on or before December […]
The wretched scum and villainy of higher education
As I write, the pressing controversy in higher education is the uneasy status of three presidents of elite universities, Elizabeth Magill of Penn, Claudine Gay of Harvard, and Sally Kornbluth of MIT. They are in the hotseat due to the […]
The “After Virtue” university
The failure of university presidents to condemn antisemitism on their campuses is an example of the “After Virtue” university in action.
The Author’s Corner with Adam R. Nelson
Adam R. Nelson is Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Educational Policy Studies and History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This interview is based on his new book, Capital of Mind: The Idea of a Modern American University (University of Chicago Press, […]
The Author’s Corner with Adam R. Nelson
Adam R. Nelson is Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Educational Policy Studies and History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This interview is based on his new book, Exchange of Ideas: The Economy of Higher Education in Early America (University of Chicago […]
Elise Stefanik “knows better”
Jennifer Rubin of The Washington Post thinks New York congresswoman Elise Stefanik was “on target” in her grilling of three university presidents (Harvard, Penn, MIT) this week. But I found the first three sentences of Rubin’s piece the most telling: […]
Six members of Congress from Pennsylvania call for the University of Pennsylvania president Liz Magill to resign
They are all Republicans. Here is Nick Robertson at The Hill: A group of six Pennsylvania Republicans called on the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) to fire its president, Liz Magill, following backlash against comments she made at a House committee hearing […]