By John Warner. It is hard to know where to begin with the big story of cheating and bribery in order to gain admission to elite universities. More...
By John Warner. A professor changes his mind based on student feedback. What could be the problem with that. More...
By John Warner. They should put a Surgeon General's warning on this thing.
We need to abolish the Harvard M.B.A degree for the good of the people who pursue that path, as well as the world at large. More...
By John Warner. ...to maximize their learning. Why inducing the flail is an important part of learning to write. More...
By Steven Mintz. Faculty occupy a very uneasy place in the discourse of innovation in higher education. Much of the literature on academic innovation focuses on administrators and the crucial role of "the critical few" in leading educational transformation. More...
By Steven Mintz. In a recent conversation between New York Times opinion columnists Gail Collins and Bret Stephens, the latter, a former Wall Street Journal contributor, remarks. More...
By Steven Mintz. Yale, you'll recall, spent $500 million to house 800 students in its two new residential colleges, which adds up to $625,000 per student. USC spent a whopping $700 million on its residential village, which houses 2,500 students. That's inexpensive by Yale standards, at just $280,000 per student, in a neighborhood where the average annual income is just one-tenth that amount. More...
By Steven Mintz. No longer does scale simply mean a 600-person introductory Economics class or U.S. History survey in a large auditorium. Harvard’s CS50 has had more than 800 students and Yale’s “Psychology and the Good Life” 1,200. More...
By Steven Mintz. As Generation Z, the cohort born in the mid- and late-1990s and early 2000s, has begun to arrive on college campuses, we might ask: Are our campuses ready?
Facile generalizations, superficial stereotypes, and pejorative caricatures about Generation Z abound. That they can’t live without their digital devices. That they’re hooked on digital entertainment and social media. That they’re entitled, self-absorbed narcissists and overly delicate, fragile flowers. More...
By Steven Mintz. Not very long ago, the life course was divided into three parts: a period of preparation, a period of family and work, and a period of retirement. In recent years, that tripartite division of the life course has broken down. No longer are education, work, and family responsibilities siloed off from one another. More...
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