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Do Tenured Theologians Have a Duty to Focus More on Academic Labor in Higher Education?
by Tom Beaudoin originally printed in America, the National Catholic Weekly, February 2010 When people find out that I am a college professor, one of the first questions they ask with increasing frequency and directness over the past year…
Civil Rights Commission Blunders Again
by Mona Charen first published in the National Review. The U.S. Civil Rights Commission (yes, it’s still around, and yes, it’s outlived its usefulness) is about to subtract from national wisdom about college admissions by focusing on…
Civil Rights Commission Blunders Again
by Mona Charen first published in the National Review. The U.S. Civil Rights Commission (yes, it’s still around, and yes, it’s outlived its usefulness) is about to subtract from national wisdom about college admissions by focusing on…
Acting Up in Syracuse
by Meg Gutman Klosko When her children or grandchildren would act up, my mother-in-law used to say that it is children who cause mental illness in their parents and not vice versa. Those of us who are parents or who have taken on…
Taping Liberal-Left America
The fact is, the professor has all the power and institutional support, not the student or the outside critic. The leftist academic’s role of daring dissident taking on the oppressive establishment is a self-serving lie, for he is the…
Not Making the Cut
by Shari Dinkins For months I was afraid. I had sent in my application materials to the campus and now I waited. And waited. And waited. Truth was I was in love with that campus. I had worked there for three, almost four years. I had worked…
The Constant E-Mail Tutorial
by Shari Dinkins HI MS. DINKINS. This is Nancy in your English 96 class. I’m just a little confused with the literary analysis essay. What is it that you want us to write about? Are we supposed to summarize the story? Also, for the thesis,…
Pilfering Epidemic
by Shari Dinkins When we find supplies or equipment missing on campus, our immediate thought is: students. The response is so basic, so quick that we may not access the rational part of our brains. Odd true story: at one state university,…
So Long. Farewell. Sayonara. Good-bye.
by Anthony Akers Hi. I’ll be your English professor this semester. I have a Master’s degree in English and Philosophy, seven years of teaching experience, and I’ve written three books. If you have a parent or guardian or sister or brother…
Students of Diminished Capacity: The New Victims?
by Shari Dinkins I broke up with my girlfriend. Oh, we’re back together. Well, the cops got involved. It wasn’t my fault. So, what were the assignments due last week? I was reporting to my probation officer—that’s why I wasn’t in class…