At a time of deepening racial and political divisions among Americans, a trial widely perceived to be a referendum on affirmative action will... Read More

For much of the past two years, congressional Democrats hoping to have a say in federal higher ed policy have had the door repeatedly slammed... Read More

Cara Stillings Candal is a senior fellow at Boston's Pioneer Institute and has spent the past 10 years studying and writing about... Read More

PRINT | NO PDF | SHAREWINTER 2019 / VOL. 19, NO. 1“A national disgrace.” That's how Brett Kavanaugh chose to... Read More

Now is that time of year when the seasons change, fall leaves become noticeable, and small talk is peppered with quips and opinions about... Read More

A new Gallup poll reveals that only 48 percent of Americans have "'a great deal' or 'quite a lot' of confidence" in the United States' higher... Read More

Five years ago when Ohio State University announced a $400-million plan to hire 500 professors over 10 years, officials specified that the... Read More

Vermont is in the early stages of adopting a new approach to funding special education services for children with disabilities. For nearly... Read More

Across the country, millions of college freshmen have spent the last few weeks starting classes, getting to know roommates and adjusting to... Read More

With one month left before the midterm elections, voters have a lot of big decisions to make as they prepare to choose between candidates... Read More

I was chief researcher and in-house editor for The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt. In the book, we... Read More

Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell was on the fence in 1978. The court had before it the case of a 35-year-old white man, Allan Bakke, who... Read More

What's your body count?” This question might make a certain sense on the battlefield—certainly more sense than asking,... Read More

A few years ago the University of Montana, where I was teaching, found itself at the epicenter of a national crisis of campus rape. Even as... Read More

Anti-Kavanaugh activists were caught red-handed last week in a scheme to award academic credit at the University of Southern Maine (USM) to... Read More

Over the past 12 months, three scholars—James Lindsay, Helen Pluckrose, and Peter Boghossian—wrote 20 fake papers using... Read More

An expansive hoax on academia, more than a year in the making, was revealed on Tuesday in the online magazine Areo. “Academic Grievance... Read More

What I found is a much more nuanced story about what motivates the winners of our age and among the things I found was that many, many elites... Read More

The Supreme Court's Janus v. AFSCME decision in June freed government workers nationwide—including public school... Read More

Competency-Based Education (CBE) has been gathering steam hand in hand with Personalized [sic] Learning as the Next Big New Thing in... Read More

Alyson Klein reports in Education Week that, despite the approval of all state ESSA plans by the U.S. Department of Education, in some ways,... Read More

Scholarly work that serves the public is the kind of thing that, theoretically, universities want faculty members to pursue. But a... Read More

In a previous post comparing Chinese and American universities, I noted that applicants for a faculty position at the University of... Read More

In the depths of the Great Recession, states across the country, facing balanced-budget requirements, slashed their spending on higher... Read More