Feminist Activism Masquerading as Education
The supposedly academic discipline of Women’s Studies is “an arm of the women’s movement,” according to philosopher Christina Hoff Sommers. And that movement is political; political activism is at least…
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Carnegie Classifications—What’s All the Fuss?
“Dartmouth falls out of an exclusive group,” declared a 2016 headline in The Washington Post just days after the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education released its 2015 classifications…
Mitch Daniels Has the Right Stuff for Purdue
Higher education does not produce many flashy, innovating entrepreneurs like Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, Peter Thiel, or Elon Musk. The non-profit, highly subsidized, and low-incentive culture that universities operate in…
The Curious Case of So-Called ‘Higher Education Deserts’
Students in the United States have unprecedented options for postsecondary education: from brick-and-mortar liberal arts institutions and research-intensive doctoral universities to dual-enrollment high schools and online-only degree programs. Entrepreneurs are…
Defining Faculty Roles: In Defense of the Activist-Scholar
Editor’s note: This is the third of a three-part series on faculty roles in higher education. Part I by Fabio Rojas is here and Part II by Jay Schalin is…
What Future Journalists Should Know About Journalism School
It might have been drilled into your head from a young age that the only way to be successful in life is to get a college degree. You might have…
Faculty Accountability Is Terrible—Even Students Have Better Standards
I became interested in academic accountability within the university because I had no choice: the lack of accountability I experienced at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington obligated me…
Defining Faculty Roles: Scholarship Only, Activism on Your Own Time
Editor’s note: This is the second of a three-part series on faculty roles in higher education. Part I by Fabio Rojas is here and Part III by John Wilson is…
The Dictatorship of the Offended
The college campus is increasingly a focal point for shaping social norms, largely a result of rising college attendance; only five percent of the generation that came of age in…
Duke Divinity School’s Race to the Bottom
The chickens have come home to roost at Duke’s Divinity School. Protesting students claim the school is insufficiently diverse. More needs to be done, they say, to combat racism, transphobia,…