The American Council of Trustees and Alumni’s report “How Many Ward Churchills?”has caused an uproar in some corners of the Internet. Criticism has centered on two issues: method and message. The report’s principal critics,...
The American Council of Trustees and Alumni has released a study of college and university courses that are aimed more at indoctrination than instruction, at least as judged by their course descriptions or syllabi. ...
A University of Colorado faculty investigation of a professor who likened some 9/11 victims to a Nazi war criminal found cases of falsification, fabrication and plagiarism in his academic research, a school spokesman said...
This year, college students aren’t the only ones anxious for summer. The academic year that’s winding down has been one of the most contentious in recent memory, and a brutal one for college presidents....
With less than four months remaining in its charter, the secretary of education’s Commission on the Future of Higher Education took a series of informal votes this month to identify members’ chief goals for...
Accreditors and some college groups are aghast at a proposal to eliminate regional accreditors and replace them with a national accreditation body. The proposal is contained in a discussion paper released late last month...
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