By Scott McLemee. Among the passengers disembarking from a ship from that reached Philadelphia in the final days of December 1941 was one Mark Zborowski -- a Ukrainian-born intellectual who grew up in Poland. He had lived in Paris for most of the previous decade, studying at the Sorbonne. He was detained by the authorities for a while (the U.S. had declared war on the Axis powers just three weeks earlier, so his visa must have been triple-checked) and then released. Read more...
By Linda Hall. When I heard that Skidmore College, where I teach, had assigned Alan Lightman’s Einstein’s Dreams to its incoming first-year students, I couldn’t help marveling at our originality. Summer reading programs tend to choose the same old books, or rather the same nearly new ones. Read more...
By Naomi S. Baron. The Book Industry Study Group just reported that 52 percent of college students surveyed agreed that “I would rather pay $100 for a learning solution that improves my result by one letter grade and reduces my study time by 25 percent than $50 for my current textbook.” As a professor, I am troubled by declines in the effort many in my classes are willing to put into doing the reading I assign. Read more...
By Anonymous. I teach at a member institution of the Council of Christian Colleges and Universities. I also happen to be gay. A friend’s early morning text alerted me to announcements from Eastern Mennonite University and Goshen College, both CCCU and Mennonite colleges, that they will add sexual orientation and gender identity to their nondiscrimination hiring statements. Read more...
By Kellie Woodhouse. After Ashland University on Friday laid off 23 instructors -- many of them tenured -- and eliminated another nine teaching positions, President Carlos Campo described the future at the financially troubled university as "bright."
The move is a drastic one. Read more...
By Ashley A. Smith. Another federal agency is launching an investigation into how a for-profit institution provided private student loans. Read more...
By Paul Fain. Hillary Clinton has kept higher education policy wonks busy of late. The Democrat's $350 billion plan to rein in student debt generated responses from her presidential rivals on both sides of the aisle. Read more...
By Doug Lederman. This month's edition of the "Pulse" podcast offers Rodney B. Murray's insights and analysis from Bb World 2015, Blackboard's annual user conference. Read more...
By Doug Lederman. President Obama's plan for free community college. Bernie Sanders's vision of two years of debt-free college. Lamar Alexander's nascent proposal to rewrite the Higher Education Act to produce a more effective higher ed system. Read more...
By Colleen Flaherty. There’s a rich of body of research suggesting that higher education can be inhospitable to faculty members of color. Read more...
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