Often, the strongest criticisms of higher education come from insiders. One insider is Daniel Johnson, who retired as president of the University of Toledo in 2006 after an academic career … Continue reading “Former University President Nails Many of Higher Education’s Ills”
While money is not the root of all evil, it is undeniably responsible for the transformation of the University of Oregon (UO). It changed from a typical state flagship where … Continue reading “How Nike Transformed the University of Oregon”
On November 7, 2006, Michigan voters passed Proposition 2, a measure that banned the use of racial preferences throughout state government and state universities. The next day, University of Michigan … Continue reading “Exposing the Harms of the ‘Diversity Delusion’”
In 2015, Greg Lukianoff (president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education) and Jonathan Haidt (professor of ethical leadership at New York University’s Stern School of Business) wrote an … Continue reading “Universities and the ‘Coddling’ of the American Mind”
There are lots of people in our higher education system who claim that it is “the envy of the world” and just needs more money to graduate more young Americans … Continue reading “A Professor’s Tough Examination—Of Our Higher Education System”
After months of clashes with angry students, the university decided that the young professor it hired had to go. From the day of his first class on campus, protesters had … Continue reading “Princeton Prof Thinks Free Speech Is in Serious Trouble”
In his long-awaited book, George Mason University economist Bryan Caplan argues that “the education system is a waste of time and money.” He is emphatically not against people learning skills … Continue reading “How Could a Professor Make ‘The Case Against Education’?”
Harvard history professor Jill LePore tells this story. She was hosting an event in her home for new students, promoting the university’s history and literature program. One of the students … Continue reading “Liberal Arts Education Is Not (Necessarily) a Waste of Time”
Former Harvard University president Derek Bok can’t stop thinking and writing about higher education. Ten years ago, he wrote Our Underachieving Colleges, in which he lamented that on the whole, … Continue reading “Why Is It Such a Struggle to Reform Our Colleges?”
American college graduates are largely adrift, but so are the schools they attended