Abraham Flexner's The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge highlights how the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake has shown itself to be a powerful force in the world, writes Scott McLemee. Read more...
16 mars 2017
16 mars 2017
Welcome to Shark Tank U
Entrepreneur mania seems to be sweeping higher education institutions, but an entire university based largely on those principles is problematic, argues Steven C. Ward. Read more...
16 mars 2017
Defending the CFPB
Congress should resist efforts to undermine the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which protects students and taxpayers, writes Christine Lindstrom. Read more...
16 mars 2017
Information Access and the 800-Pound Gorilla
Current technology offers unfettered access to good information and good scholarship, but standing in the way is the U.S. copyright law, argues Bryn Geffert. Read more...
16 mars 2017
The Campus Buildings Name Game: Unfinished Business
Decisions to remove the names of controversial people from campus buildings show that the heritage of higher education is complex and even conflicting in its symbols and celebrations, writes John Thelin. Read more...
16 mars 2017
Becoming Acquainted With Ambivalence
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’s assertion that faculty members tell students what to say and think distorts a basic fact: most professors are dedicated to teaching their students to think independently and critically, argues Susan Resneck Pierce. Read more...
16 mars 2017
An Invitation
We should acknowledge that many Americans believe that higher education is indoctrination in the dogmas of liberalism, writes Steven C. Bahls, and ask why this perception exists and what we can do to change it. Read more...
16 mars 2017
Are Great Teachers Poor Scholars?
David N. Figlio and Morton Schapiro share the results of a study in which they examined what, if any, link exists between the two. Read more...
16 mars 2017
Yiannopoulos and the Moral Crisis of Campus Conservatism
In defending their decision to host Milo Yiannopoulos's talks on grounds of freedom of speech, campus Republicans never mentioned his obscene and defamatory rhetoric, argues Robert Cohen. Read more...
16 mars 2017
The Changing Audience for Credentials: 3 Key Questions
Credential innovation is so important because colleges provide much of what employers are looking for, but they don’t assess, document and communicate those outcomes, argues Matthew Pittinsky. Read more...
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