We need high-quality educational and training options for people who truly don’t want degrees, but such options cannot replace degrees and should not be an excuse to ignore social and economic inequities, argues Chris W. Gallagher. More...
Describing his service on a voluntary visiting team, Bob Ubell defends regional accreditation as a form of “deliberative democracy” and urges us not to hand it over to a federal education police force. More...
Not long after waking up in Eden for the first time, Adam receives an important assignment. “Out of the ground,” we are told, “the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.” Then he goes to sleep and loses the rib, and Eve shows up to keep things interesting. More...
Peter A. Coclanis calls attention to another form of “unearned” privilege that many people in academe benefit from greatly yet usually take for granted: fluency in the English language. More...
In “FIRE, Aim, Ready!” Steven Bahls charges the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education with engaging in “imbalanced sensationalism.” Specifically, Bahls argues that for purposes of our speech code ratings, we “lump” colleges with policies banning alcohol-related expression in with colleges that maintain far broader restrictions on speech. More...
Michael Poliakoff writes that many campuses deserve attention for failing to defend the values of free expression. More...
Over the course of my 10-year tenure as an administrator in study abroad, I’ve always found a dearth of program offerings for American students in developing countries. Raised in Nigeria and having worked as an ESL instructor in Shanghai, I can openly admit that educational systems in the developing world have their challenges. More...
Scott McLemee considers Leo R. Chavez's Anchor Babies and The Challenge of Birthright Citizenship, which makes clear how little has been added to the stock of anti-immigrant rhetoric over the past century. More...
Colleges and universities must ensure that every learner is prepared to be entrepreneurial and flexible and explicitly adopt a lifelong learning approach, argues John C. Cavanaugh. More...
Around the turn of the millennium, Jean Baudrillard speculated that the destiny of the 20th century would be for it to be repeated endlessly. All the problems, ideas, movements, problems, conflicts, illusions, breakthroughs, retreats and disasters would eventually return -- and would keep returning: recycled, re-enacted, spliced together in grotesque yet no less repetitive ways. More...
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