Defining Faculty Roles: In Defense of the Activist-Scholar
Editor’s note: This is the third of a three-part series on faculty roles in higher education. Part I by Fabio Rojas is here and Part II by Jay Schalin is…
What Future Journalists Should Know About Journalism School
It might have been drilled into your head from a young age that the only way to be successful in life is to get a college degree. You might have…
Faculty Accountability Is Terrible—Even Students Have Better Standards
I became interested in academic accountability within the university because I had no choice: the lack of accountability I experienced at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington obligated me…
Defining Faculty Roles: Scholarship Only, Activism on Your Own Time
Editor’s note: This is the second of a three-part series on faculty roles in higher education. Part I by Fabio Rojas is here and Part III by John Wilson is…
The Dictatorship of the Offended
The college campus is increasingly a focal point for shaping social norms, largely a result of rising college attendance; only five percent of the generation that came of age in…
Duke Divinity School’s Race to the Bottom
The chickens have come home to roost at Duke’s Divinity School. Protesting students claim the school is insufficiently diverse. More needs to be done, they say, to combat racism, transphobia,…
Defining Faculty Roles: Scholarship First, Activism Second
Editor’s note: This is the first of a three-part series on faculty roles in higher education. Part II by Jay Schalin is here and Part III by John Wilson is…
Why Literary Scholarship Matters
A recent book by Thomas L. Martin and Duke Pesta, The Renaissance and the Postmodern: A Study in Comparative Critical Values represents something of a critical cat among the contemporary…
The Skills Gap: Employers Expect More Than What College Grads Offer
National surveys have consistently found that businesses have difficulty finding employees with the right skills. Even among college graduates searching for work, employers have found them lacking employable skills. Research…
Bad Language Gets a Tenured Female Professor Fired for ‘Sexual Harassment’
Tenure used to provide faculty members with solid protection against all but criminal behavior. But now it is proving no match for weak excuses for firing professors who administrators want…