College and university boards have much about which to be curious these days, argue Peter Eckel and Cathy Trower, but too many struggle with asking questions at all, let alone good or great ones. More...
22 mai 2017
Trump Has It Right
He can sometimes stumble into the correct position when trying to appease a constituency, as is the case with his approach to political speech by nonprofit groups, argues John K. Wilson. More...
What Policies for Improving Graduation Rates Actually Work?
By Nicholas A. Bowman And Four Other Scholars. As students across the country prepare to receive their degrees, five authors explore how to increase their numbers. More...
Not Coddling but Learning
Why would we expect, ask John C. and Christine K. Cavanaugh, that students who have come of age surrounded by people who largely look and think as they do will be highly skilled at handling disagreeable situations. More...
The Costs of a Calling
The Duke Divinity email fracas shows the peril of academics viewing their work as a vocation and not a job, argues Jonathan Malesic. More...
What Boards Are Missing: Curiosity
Not Exactly Free
John M. Burdick provides an insider’s view as to why he thinks the New York State Excelsior Scholarship isn’t actually giving students free college. More...
I Spy
In Citizen Spies, Joshua Reeves demonstrates that the surveillance systems established in America since the Sept. 11 attacks depend largely on habits that have been a long time in forming, writes Scott McLemee. More...
Claiming Our Space
Deb S. Reisinger makes the case that intercultural perspectives can and should inform the teaching of academic content in many disciplines, making language study not only relevant but even indispensable. More...
Setting Aside Bureaucratic Requirements
By W. Russell Neuman. W. Russell Neuman explores the impact of undergraduate foreign language requirements and finds that they seem to have little to no meaningful effect on students’ proficiency. More...
The Financier and the Professor
By Leonard Cassuto. Leonard Cassuto writes of the person with whom he shared his high school, college and graduate school years -- and how the story of the divergent paths they later took continues to vex him. More...
