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Inside Higher Ed

What if the WOMEN’s NCAA tournament was based on academics? An all-Ivy League final

John Fea   |  March 20, 2025

Yesterday we posted on Inside Higher Ed‘s men’s bracket. Today we have the women: Here atĀ Inside Higher Ed, though, we celebrate the start of March Madness a little differently fromĀ the 1.44 million peopleĀ who tuned in earlier this month to this […]

What if the NCAA tournament was based on academics? Congratulations, Clemson Tigers!

John Fea   |  March 19, 2025

Inside Higher Ed does this every year and it’s great. Here is Johanna Alonso: To determine the winners, we used the NCAA’s key academic performance metric, known as theĀ academic progress rate, for the 2022–23 academic year, the most recent data […]

Academics have a lot to be thankful for

John Fea   |  November 26, 2024

Our annual Thanksgiving tradition here at The Way of Improvement Leads Home. I wroteĀ thisĀ Inside Higher EdĀ pieceĀ on gratitude in November 2008.Ā I think it still holds up. It was a typical 1970s weekday evening. The sky was growing dark and I, an […]

The forgotten virtue of gratitude

John Fea   |  November 22, 2023

Our annual Thanksgiving tradition here at The Way of Improvement Leads Home. I wroteĀ thisĀ Inside Higher EdĀ pieceĀ on gratitude in November 2008.Ā  I have had to remind myself of this piece a lot in the last couple of years.–JF It was a […]

The forgotten virtue of gratitude

John Fea   |  November 23, 2022

Our annual Thanksgiving tradition here atĀ The Way of Improvement Leads Home. Ā I wroteĀ thisĀ Inside Higher EdĀ pieceĀ on gratitude in November 2008.Ā  I have had to remind myself of this piece a lot in the last couple of years.–JF It was a typical […]

Inside Higher Ed reports on the Grove City College “wokeness” controversy

John Fea   |  May 5, 2022

Not familiar with what is going on at Grove City College? Get up to speed here. Here is a taste of Colleen Flaherty’s piece at Inside Higher Ed: Cedric Lewis, who co-taught and co-designed EDU 290, the elective on diversity […]

The forgotten virtue of gratitude

John Fea   |  November 25, 2021

Our annual Thanksgiving tradition here atĀ The Way of Improvement Leads Home. Ā I wroteĀ thisĀ Inside Higher EdĀ pieceĀ on gratitude in November 2008.Ā  I have had to remind myself of this piece a lot in the last couple of years.–JF It was a typical […]