Hardly an Academic Sweatshop
A common-sense look at UNC faculty workloads indicates that professors teach less than the system claims.
Disrupting College? Lessons from iTunes
So far, online education has failed to transform higher education. An entrepreneur explains why.
Faculty Unions: A Terrible Idea
Charles Baird argues that closed-shop unionization encourages academic mediocrity.
What Faculty Unions Do
Cary Nelson argues that faculty unions accomplish more than collective bargaining.
What Role for Faculty Unions (If Any)?
Cary Nelson and Charles Baird debate the merits of faculty unions.
Ten Top Books on Higher Education
Do you agree that these are the best books to understand what is going on in America’s colleges and universities?
War of the Genders
“Male Studies” wants some of the college turf now dedicated to Women’s and Men’s studies.
Scholarly Study–of Monty Python?
Academic papers on Monty Python are just the kind of thing the troupe would have lampooned.
“Capitalism, American Style” at Christopher Newport University
An American Studies program at a public college in Virginia sets itself apart by focusing on our capitalist economic system and the ideas behind it.
The Secret Is Out About Law Schools
Law schools are reluctant to grapple with the oversupply problem.