…to burn out in anthropology. Let’s hope this turn in events will soon run its course and anthropology as valuable branch of scholarship and human understanding will continue as before….
…issue to rile up the rednecks. Denis Rancourt was perfectly open about his desire to use his classroom to motivate students to leftist activism. The interesting question regarding l’affaire Rancourt…
…Year Experience” will replace large lecture classes with three seminars for no more than 18 students and will introduce students to books such as the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the…
North Carolina State University is one of the latest universities to announce plans to close its Confucius Institute. Eleven American colleges and universities have parted ways with these Chinese government-funded…
…the latest in a long line of equivalent state directives. Already this year, Pennsylvania’s Gov. Josh Shapiro acted to ensure that 92 percent of commonwealth jobs would be open to…
Editor’s note: The latest installment in the wizarding movies, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, will likely make an appearance under many Christmas trees this year. A more…
…cloud of suspicion. The 88 faculty members signed an open letter entitled “What Does a Social Disaster Sound Like?” which depicted the school as a hotbed of racism and suggested…
…business and who served as head of the Office of Management and Budget under George W. Bush before becoming governor. In January he wrote an open letter to the “people…
If you are up on the latest trends in academia, you’ll know that “institutional neutrality” is in the news as more universities consider or adopt it. In my view, this…
…perversity here: Schools that sell the degrees that are likely to be free will capitalize on that by increasing their cost. Why not, since the government will wipe out the…