And I am not talking about three straight football losses to Michigan. John Sailer of the National Association of Scholars, a political conservative education advocacy organization, recently obtained 800 pages of “Diversity Faculty Recruitment Reports” from The Ohio State University. […]
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David French talks about his New York Times column on the moral collapse of Liberty University
French talks to Mark Oppenheimer at Inside Higher Ed about Liberty University. Listen: French says he is still getting emails from people saying that his New York Times column on Liberty University did not go far enough in exposing the […]
The Author’s Corner with Travis D. Boyce
Travis D. Boyce is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of African American Studies at San JosĂ© State University. This interview is based on his new book, Steady and Measured: Benner C. Turner, A Black College President in the […]
Stanley Fish, at 85, is teaching at New College-Florida
As best I can tell, the last time the name “Stanley Fish” appeared in the title of a post at this blog was August 2013. I did a post on Russell Jacoby’s New Republic piece, “Stanley Fish Turned Careerism into […]
Wendell Berry on the difference between “training” and “education”
I was reading in my commonplace book this morning and ran across this quote from Wendell Berry. It come from his essay “Discipline and Hope” published in the 1972 collection: A Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural and Agricultural: Training is a […]
Why do Christian college administrators see “faculty as a political block to be managed at best and a group to be overridden at worst.”
John Hawthorne, a sociologist who was an administrator at multiple Christian colleges, is writing a book titled The Fearless Christian University. Here is a taste of his recent Substack post: “Three Problematic Metaphors in Christian Higher Education“: Looking at Christian […]
The Department of Education fines Grand Canyon University $37.7 million
We introduced you to this story last month.Get up to speed here. Katherine Knott has the latest at Insider Higher Ed: The Education Department is fining Grand Canyon University a record $37.7Â million for misleading more than 7,500 students about the […]
What is going on at the University of North Carolina?
Here is Brianna Atkinson at WUNC-North Carolina Public Radio: “The UNC System Board of Governors allocated $3.7 billion of operating expenses from the state budget. The two-year funding plan includes money for new university programs, rural healthcare partnerships and faculty […]
“Some college”: The category that shows benefits of small colleges for students
When we consider college completion rates, the type of institution matters. Small private colleges have the lowest drop-out rates of all.
Mintz: “A hard rain is about to fall” on higher education
Here is the University of Houston historian at Inside Higher Ed. He is talking about higher education in the wake of this and this and the first paragraph of this. The events of the past few days will, I think, […]
David French: “The Worst Scandal in American Higher Education Isn’t in the Ivy League.”
When you have a free moment check out the website or twitter feed of Liberty University’s Standing for Freedom Center. You will find articles with titles like this: “Why Young Evangelicals Are in Danger of Becoming Puppets for Climate Marxism.” […]
SUNY-Potsdam puts 14 degree programs on the chopping block. Mostly liberal arts.
The hits keep coming. Most of these proposed cuts are liberal arts programs. I am sure Daniel K. Williams, Christopher Gehrz, Sarah Huffines, Daniel Hummel, Dixie Dillon Lane (see here), Shirley Mullen, Betsy Lasch-Quinn, and Brad Frey might have something […]
The Author’s Corner with Lauren Lassabe Shepherd
Lauren Lassabe Shepherd is an instructor at the University of New Orleans and an IUPUI-SUSIH Community Scholar. This interview is based on her new book, Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars in Modern America (University of North […]
Paul Thompson on higher education, temperance, and biblical views on race
Paul Thompson is Dean of the College of Humanities and Sciences and Professor of History at North Greenville University. He is the author of A Most Stirring and Significant Episode: Religion and the Rise and Fall of Prohibition in Black […]
Eboo Patel: “It’s time to overturn the Robin DiAngelo and Ibram X. Kendi model” of “power and privilege”
Patel argues that universities should switch from an “antiracism” model of diversity to a ‘cosmpolitan” model. Here is a taste his Chronicle of Higher Education piece: “Today’s DEI Is Obsessed With Power and Privilege“: Over the past five years or […]
Observations for students in higher ed at the beginning of the semester
1. Higher ed is not K-12. Expect things to be different. 2. Your professors are not here to entertain you. Your professors are not here to motivate you. Sometimes they will be entertaining or motivating, and when they are, consider […]
Letter to my freshman self
Dear Self (17), You’re weird. Or maybe not? You’re not sure yet. A lot of self-discovery lies ahead. First of all, you’ll be confused at orientation when your new friends call themselves “kids.” You yourself have been grown up for […]
A letter to my freshman self
A couple years ago, when my nephew set off for college, his father (my brother-in-law) asked many of us to write a letter to our freshman selves stating what advice we’d give to ourselves if we could communicate through time. […]
Killing the humanities at WVU: déjà vu all over again
When colleges dismantle the humanities, everyone suffers. The past several years have seen the dismantling of the humanities and the liberal arts in many a university and college in the U.S., including my now former employer, a regional comprehensive state […]
“The Ivy League doesn’t have low-income students because it doesn’t want low-income students”
Here is Aatish Bhatia, Claire Cainb Miller, and Josh Katz of The New York Times: Elite colleges have long been filled with the children of the richest families: At Ivy League schools, one in six students has parents in the […]