21 août 2019
Interdisciplinary Action
Scott McLemee reviews Catherine Lyall's Being an Interdisciplinary Academic: How Institutions Shape University Careers. More...
21 août 2019
Platinum Parachutes Revisited
Perhaps it is time for college and university governing boards to consider whether current and future students should have to pay for failed presidencies, argue James Finkelstein and Judith Wilde. More...
21 août 2019
Ethical College Admissions: Rightsizing
George Washington U's plan to shrink is worth watching, writes Jim Jump. More...
21 août 2019
Taking Trans Lives Seriously
It is not permissible to debate in some academic parlor game the lives of people who are oppressed and murdered, writes Mark Lance. More...
21 août 2019
Ethical College Admissions: Chicago Declares Test Optional a Success
The policies deserve a careful look, writes Jim Jump. More...
21 août 2019
Philosophers Should Not Be Sanctioned Over Their Positions on Sex and Gender
While the respect due to all people should never be compromised, academic freedom should be restricted only with the greatest caution, if ever, write 12 leading scholars. More...
21 août 2019
The Problem With Diversity Questions
We would do well to replace them with more tangible queries about teaching and mentoring, argues Alex Small. More...
21 août 2019
Don’t Romanticize Faculty Governance
We faculty members are capable of both intellectual rigor and self-serving small-mindedness, astounding courage and craven pettiness. We are and are not special, writes Kathryn D. Blanchard. More...
21 août 2019
Technology 1, ‘Credential Society’ 0
Randall Collins’s recently reissued 1979 book arguing that education and training are about credentialing rather than skills rings false in the digital age, Ryan Craig argues. More...
21 août 2019
No More Grouchos
In the 1932 film Horse Feathers, the Board of Trustees at Huxley College appoints Quincy Adams Wagstaff, played by Groucho Marx, as its president and begins to offer him some advice on governance -- which he famously rebuffs in song:
I don’t know what they have to say
It makes no difference anyway
Whatever it is, I’m against it
No matter what it is or who commenced it
I’m against it
Today, 87 years later, in an era of unprecedented financial strain and public disapprobation for colleges and universities, Groucho’s contemporary counterparts, the presidents, often tend to be “for it” -- for whatever innovation is proposed to garner students, strengthen finances and demonstrate public value. More...
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