By Melissa McDonald I once had a student who claimed he did not have a culture. "Of course, you do," I explained. "You just don't see it because you're used to it." When I first started teaching, I was in a familiar place—my home state of...
By K. Morris “I’ve always written to make sense of the world,” said National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Grant for Literature recipient Teresa Scollon. But finding time to write.
By Jon Marcus Higher education in the U.S. is going into hibernation. With budgets tight, energy prices high and demand for conservation growing, universities and colleges are shutting down for.
by Robert Reich Over the long term, the only way we’re going to raise wages, grow the economy, and improve American competitiveness is by investing in our people — especially their educations. You’ve probably seen the reports. American students rank low on international standards of educational...
By Peter Osnos On a rainy Sunday afternoon in November, I decided to read historian Antonia Fraser's Must You Go? My Life with Harold Pinter (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday). Pinter, the.
College students use cell phones in class, despite knowing that it adversely affects their concentration, according to a study conducted at the University of New Hampshire. In a university-wide study,.
By Victor Hanson The liberal arts face a perfect storm. The economy is struggling with obscenely high unemployment and is mired in massive federal and state deficits. Budget cutting won’t spare education. The public is already angry over fraud, waste, and incompetence in our schools and...
By Bruce A. Johnson In my AdjunctNation.com blog, I tackled the issue of student engagement. Motivation directly impacts engagement. When instructors are evaluating students and their involvement in the.
by Eric Fry The Law of Diminishing Returns is a nasty little ordinance…and few aspects of life escape its tyranny. A short list of exceptions would include sex and world.
by Richard Vedder As a professor who has spent over 90 percent of my half-century career in higher education at public universities, it was for decades a matter of faith with me that governments need to subsidize higher education. The two major reasons: higher education...
