“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 … Continue reading “Carnegie Classifications—What’s All the Fuss?”
Editor’s Note: This is a condensed version of a speech Dr. Otteson gave at a January James G. Martin Center luncheon. Our topic today is the importance of intellectual diversity … Continue reading “Intellectual Diversity and Academic Professionalism”
Does social science research and understanding suffer because most of the individuals working in the field are on the left side of the political spectrum? A new book gives us … Continue reading “Psychology Professors Argue Against Groupthink in Their Field”
The Paradigm Shift Not long ago I was working with my occasional co-author, an associate dean in the school of economic, political and policy sciences at the University of Texas … Continue reading “Perverse Incentives in Science: 21st Century Funding for 20th Century Research”
More than six years have passed since Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa rocked the academic world with their landmark book, Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses. Their study of more … Continue reading “Why College Graduates Still Can’t Think”
A report on the humanities and social sciences fails to give a persuasive case for federal support.