by Harry Quick Why did you go to college? Do you love to learn for learning’s sake? Are you here to start a career? Do you even know the answer to that question? I confess I’m not sure myself. I suppose I came to the...
Opinions
by Alison Snyder and Kim Hart "Universities were designed to last, not change."Bridget Burns, executive director, the University Innovation Alliance U.S. colleges and universities — historically cornerstones of society —.
by Daniel Payne Texas Governor Greg Abbot recently signed into law a bill that would, among other things, criminalizes sex jokes on Texas campuses. That law follows the Obama administration’s earlier definition.
by Steven M. Gavazzi Universities have lost public support in recent years. In order to get it back, college presidents should worry less about how their institutions fare in college rankings and focus more on affordability, great teaching and doing research that matters most to the communities they...
by Dr. Cathryn van Kessel After Robert Bowers murdered 11 people at a synagogue in Pittsburgh, people are looking for explanations. Who would do such a thing? And why? The answers are almost.
by Corey Robin In the 1990s the philosopher and Arts & Letters Daily editor Dennis Dutton ran an annual Bad Writing contest in order to highlight turgid academic prose. If the contest.
by James V. Schall, S.J. A friend of mine recently asked me how he should go about reading Samuel Johnson, the great 18th century English lexicographer, a man of many parts. I replied: “Find a good edition of Boswell’s Life of Johnson, one you can underline...
By Daniel Davis, Ph.D. Pay parity between contingent and tenure-track faculty members remains a hotly contested issue. On one side, administrators seek cost savings through a minimally compensated and flexible.
by Dr. Sarah Stitzlein In scenes unprecedented in previous school shootings, the past few weeks have been marked by students taking to the streets, to the media, to corporations and elected officials in protest over.
By Brian N. Williams, Andrea Headley and Meagan LePere-Schloop On a beautiful spring afternoon on a picturesque college campus, two campus police officers responded to a black professor’s “good afternoon” with a request to see his identification. The professor paused for a moment but decided...
