Mathematics as a Liberator
…equipping students to understand mathematics better so they can succeed, the new framework will leave students less prepared and teaches them a new dangerous lesson: mathematics is a tool of…
…equipping students to understand mathematics better so they can succeed, the new framework will leave students less prepared and teaches them a new dangerous lesson: mathematics is a tool of…
If you listen to the glowing rhetoric about higher education, you hear about how it does so much to enhance students’ skills, how it will raise their earnings, how it…
The increasing use of “diversity statements” in hiring and faculty evaluation has provoked considerable concern from free-speech advocates and defenders of academic freedom. An American Enterprise Institute study last November…
…educational attainment because there are plenty of presumably better workers with college degrees. A recent study done by Burning Glass Technologies, a consultant on job recruitment sheds some light on…
…study was William G, Bowen–funded Espenshade and Radford. The flaws of The Shape of the River and No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal are similar, too. Both books use proprietary…
A study of the UNC System’s administration, released last week, recommends realignment of the management of UNC’s 16 universities—mostly to fulfill campus wish lists. But downplayed in the report is…
…mainly succeeded only in distorting the literary works that they purport to study. While they only discuss academic study of Renaissance literature, they provide us with a basis for judging…
…Productivity (a.k.a. the Delaware Study). If faculty members teach more student credit hours than the Delaware Study predicts—then the university has more money for other purposes. There are, however, serious…
…sexism.Co-authors Chad Topaz (“Data scientist/mathematician and activist” and co-founder of the Institute for the Quantitative Study of Inclusion, Diversity and Equity) and Nate Brown (“Math faculty like me can be…
…mathematics is shaped by the culture, the mathematics culture should be internationalized.” They suggest that is necessary for mathematics students “to study abroad to gain the cultural knowledge they will…