University Programs Cultivate the Crisis of Relevance in the Arts
I spent the early 1990s in art school. Little did I know that one of most negative experiences I had there was a harbinger for the direction of college art…
Science and Its Discontents: Too Few Jobs—or Too Many Scientists?
“The United States is producing more research scientists than academia can handle,” so begins a July 2016 article by respected New York Times science reporter Gina Kolata. It turns out…
North Carolina Works to Ensure Success of Military Students
Drone pilots have assumed an increasingly valuable role in military operations. Soon they may be able to leverage their unique experience into academic credits through the North Carolina Community College…
Urban Universities: Part of the Solution or Part of the Problem?
Look at any map of our recent presidential elections and a key fault-line in our fractured country becomes clear. Cities and their denser suburbs vote overwhelmingly Democratic and show up as blue islands.…
Men Wanted: The Feminized Campus versus Decent Masculinity
In the wake of Harvey Weinstein, #MeToo, increased public attention to sexual harassment, and the growing debate about due process rights of the accused, how are young men to navigate…
Great Books Are Key for a Unified Education
The Great Books—the primary texts that include the greatest writings of Western Civilization—once formed the basis of all higher education. The highest levels of society were often closed to those…
Psychology Professors Argue Against Groupthink in Their Field
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…
Peer Review: the Publication Game and “the Natural Selection of Bad Science”
Editor’s Note: This is part II; part I can be found here. Professor Brian Wansink is head of the Food and Brand Lab at Cornell University. The lab has had…
How Is Science Judged? How Useful Is Peer Review?
The British journal Nature, home in 1953 to Watson and Crick’s important DNA paper, was by 1966 rather in the doldrums, with a backlog of submitted manuscripts and losing ground…
How the One-Size-Fits-All College Application Model Hurts Homeschoolers
The season for college admissions is upon us. My younger daughter is still a junior but her public school teammates are all abuzz with chatter of who applied where, who’s…