The current administration’s stream of visual foibles is just one example of why policy makers and others should question their assumptions about the value of studying art history, argues Nika Elder. Read more...
10 avril 2017
10 avril 2017
Democracy Is in the Streets
A scholarly framework and documentary format coincide in The Activists, writes Scott McLemee, which depicts the antiwar movement in this century’s first decade as an assemblage of collaborating but distinct groups. Read more...
10 avril 2017
Applying to College as a Wheelchair User
Why was finding a college so difficult, asks Valerie Piro, even though all I needed was basic wheelchair access and a dorm room large enough for my physical therapy equipment. Read more...
10 avril 2017
Who Is the “Public” in Higher Education Today?
There are many potential hazards when the public good is narrowly constrained to the interests of the nation-state, and academe is not immune from such isolationist tendencies, writes Jenny J. Lee. Read more...
10 avril 2017
Humane Studies
The eminent New Yorker writer Joseph Mitchell profiled the greatest anthropologist in the world -- and his fans somehow forgot about it for decades. Scott McLemee reports from the scene of the excavation. Read more...
10 avril 2017
Language of Appeasement
By substituting diversity and inclusion rhetoric for transformative efforts to promote equity and justice, colleges have avoided recognizable institutional change, contends Dafina-Lazarus Stewart. Read more...
10 avril 2017
Lessons Squandered From Penn State Case?
Might the conviction of Graham Spanier send a warning signal, asks Karen Gross, or at least a warning reminder, through ivory towers across our nation. Read more...
10 avril 2017
The Creativity Boom
David Galef describes, with tongue in cheek, the courses that today's students should take to be in the know. Read more...
10 avril 2017
Democratizing the Great Books
At a time when many of the values that underpin our democracy are under threat, educators of whatever political disposition should introduce students to the history of ideas that have shaped our contemporary world, write Casey N. Blake, Roosevelt Montás and Tamara Mann Tweel. Read more...
10 avril 2017
Boards Need the Right Competencies
Most trustees come to the board table with no clue about what to expect. Cathy Trower and Peter Eckel examine the individual competencies they should have to improve how the board governs. Read more...
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