by John Sailer In June 2020, Gordon Klein, a longtime accounting lecturer at UCLA, made the news after a student emailed him asking him to grade black…
Ivory Tower
We live in tough times, and colleges must help students develop skills and habits to cope. by Adam Weinberg There has been a significant increase in anxiety…
by Greg Toppo Anyone who crossed their fingers hoping the college fall term would go smoothly received a harsh dose of reality: Despite images of crowded football stadiums and…
by George Leef If you compare higher education in America today with what it was like, say, 50 years ago, the changes are stark. It used to…
The misused phrase really refers to a small group of white, conservative, suburban and Christian parents by Selena Carrion A mother of four in Florida recently questioned…
Instead of being a great equalizer, higher education is leaving too many Black students behind by Michael Collins. What if higher education isn’t the “great equalizer” after…
by Shaun M. Dougherty and Walter G. Ecton When a doctoral program in education introduced a comprehensive funding package that covered tuition, it led to an increase…
by Jeffrey C. Oliver The big idea Undergraduate training for data scientists – dubbed the sexiest job of the 21st century by Harvard Business Review – falls short in…
by Nicholas Tampio The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has proposed that the federal government create a database that includes information on outcomes for individual college graduates, such as…
by Devon Price I’ve been a psychology professor since 2012. In the past six years, I’ve witnessed students of all ages procrastinate on papers, skip presentation days,…