RE: “The Phony War on Accreditors”
I am disappointed that an organization supposedly committed to academic quality would publish an article so slanted and misleading as the recent piece by Samuel Negus. Mr. Negus portrays my…
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Let’s Train Students on AI
In a recent Digital Education Council survey, 86 percent of college students said they “‘regularly’ used programs such as ChatGPT in their studies,” while over half of students claimed to…
So Now the Feds Will Monitor Research Integrity?
In its first year, the Biden administration launched a fast-track Scientific Integrity Task Force, intended to “lift up the voices of Federal scientists of many perspectives and backgrounds” and put…
What Online Learners Want
Earlier this year, the marketing firm Education Dynamics released its 12th annual Online College Students Report, which professes to identify “the demands and preferences of online college students today.” As…
Divide and Conquer: Radicalizing Military Education
From late 2017 to 2018, three scholars wrote and submitted to academic journals 20 fake papers focused on gender and sexual identity—what the authors call “grievance studies.” Seven journals published…
A Defense of the “Ungrading” Movement
In his April piece for the Martin Center, Adam Ellwanger critiqued “contract grading” as a symptom of “the war against academic excellence” and the broader societal movement toward “some fetishized…
Letter to the Editor: This is Higher Education, Right should really matter
To the editor: “This is America, Right should matter.” Alexander Vindman, LtCol, USA, (Retired) “This is Higher Education, Right should really matter.” (paraphrase) Lorretta Breuning, I concur with Dr Bruening.…
Cheaters Never Prosper—Or Do They?
Students can survive by cheating unless their professors enforce academic integrity standards. We presume such enforcement exists, but my personal experience suggests otherwise. Let’s be honest: professors face unpleasant consequences…
Recalling the Great UNC Sports Scandal—How Much has Really Changed?
A decade ago, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was engulfed in a sports scandal that made national headlines, brought down a chancellor who seemed destined for a…
A Chancellor Search Tainted with Suspicion and Shrouded in Secrecy
The recent appointment of Darrell Allison to the chancellorship of Fayetteville State University (FSU) has sparked a controversy. The UNC Board of Governors’ (BOG) announcement elicited immediate pushback from those…