Among the ideas being floated during this year’s presidential election is one from academia: creating a historian “dream team” to keep the president straight on dates and facts. Two historians with Harvard University’s Belfer Center...
With college costs rapidly escalating, student debt growing, and the real-world applications of some college degrees increasingly questioned, NPR is raising questions about zombies in the classroom. Metaphorically speaking, the concern seems to be that charging...
Clemson’s persistence on the question of student diversity is indeed admirable. It is a question that has been “on the table” for over 50 years, since “affirmative action” was instituted in the late 1960s....
In what could mark a potential turning point for U.S. legal education, the American Bar Association faces serious questions about its future as the federally-recognized accreditor of law schools. Misleading job statistics, increasing enrollment...
At Amherst College in western Massachusetts, Catherine Epstein takes us down to the school’s archives. Epstein teaches history at this small liberal arts college. She’s also dean of the faculty at Amherst, which enrolls...
Universities’ boards of regents are charged with ensuring campuses maintain academic freedom and excellence, yet often board members fall short in their oversight duties – and that’s where the American Council of Trustees and...
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