One of the Most Liberal Groups in America
College administrators are off the scale in relation to the rest of the nation in terms of their ideological leanings, contends Samuel J. Abrams. More...
All Along the Border
Scott McLemee reviews Threshold: Emergency Responders on the US-Mexico Border by Ieva Jusionyte. More...
Ethical College Admissions: Ready for My Close-Up
Many television series today employ technical advisers to review scripts for realism. That’s not a new phenomenon. The character actor George Kennedy, best known for his performances in Cool Hand Luke and the Naked Gun movies, supposedly got his show-business start in the 1950s as a technical adviser for the comedy Sergeant Bilko. More...
What the Harvard Case Teaches Us
Whatever the judge rules, we have seen the impact of wealth, alumni connections and athletic skill in elite college admissions, writes Nicholas Soodik. More...
Veterans Day 2018
Highly selective colleges enroll modestly more veterans. And 100 higher ed leaders gather in Washington this week to keep veteran enrollments rising. That's progress, right? Wick Sloane asks. More...
Ethical College Admissions: Are We Devo?
Every now and then, colleges make the application process easier for students, but like one-hit wonder musical groups, they don't build on their momentum, writes Jim Jump. More...
You Can’t Take the Islam Out of Islamophobia
Secular liberal institutions want to believe that such antireligious bias doesn’t happen on their campuses, but that’s not always the case, argues Liza B. Neal. More...
Putting Standardization Second (or Lower) in Online Learning
Campus leaders should prioritize excellence, differentiation and institutional fidelity as they build new academic programs, Scott Moore writes. More...
I Am Cited, Ergo Sum
In fact, argues Peter C. Herman, the question for scholars should be “Who reads us, anyway?”. More...
Refuting the Politicization of Student Affairs Work
Dafina-Lazarus Stewart challenges the view that student affairs administrators are socializing students into a leftist ideology. More...
