By Eboo Patel. Is there a way to recognize the racism that produced the Rodney King beatings without ignoring the lives of people like Tonya Harding. More...

By Eboo Patel. Learning from James Baldwin and Andrew Sullivan on the uses and abuses of identity politics. More...

By Eboo Patel. We have a tradition of protecting dissenting views when they violate prevailing norms. What if the prevailing norm is protecting vulnerable populations. More...

By Eboo Patel. Is it true that students at upper class colleges are mostly taught to criticize the things -- teaching, nursing, policing -- that kids at working class colleges go to school to learn to do. More...

By Eboo Patel. This week for our course Religion, Politics and the University, my colleague John Inazu and I taught parts of George Marsden’s classic text, The Soul of the American University. Marsden claims that American universities were largely built by “men who came of age during the earthshaking national conflict (the civil war) and who inherited a sense of calling to serve God and nation in a cultural mission who founded and defined American universities.” This was the case both for private colleges that took as a principal purpose Christian formation and also public universities. More...

By Eboo Patel. The organization I lead, Interfaith Youth Core, runs programs for students on how to build bridges across diversity. Since Donald Trump announced his candidacy for president, I have had to include a new line in just about every one of my speeches: diversity is not just the differences you like. More...

By Joshua Kim. The Babson Survey Research Groups latest report Grade Increase: Tracking Distance Education in the United States reveals an interesting paradox. Online education is both highly concentrated in the U.S., and also highly dispersed. More...

By Joshua Kim. The downsides of playing nice.
How are traditional academic departments and academic centers different. More...

By Joshua Kim. Is there a professional association for the Online Program Management (OPM) industry?
If not - and I can’t find one - do they need one. More...

By Joshua Kim. Does scarcity distort or enlarge?
My family wants to go to a Broadway show. More...