Scan through any college catalogue and you will find courses that are painfully obvious, at best, and trivial, at least.
Articles By: Malcolm A. Kline
Assessing America @ Columbia
A casual read through Columbia University’s catalogue will give a fairly clear idea of the esteem America is held in on that Ivy League campus, which is to say, not very much.
Enigma of Common Core
Two online courses on teaching the Common Core education initiative of the Obama Administration that are just about as vague as the program.
Uncommon Catholic Core
The Obama Administration’s Common Core education initiative may be problematic for private Catholic schools as well as the public ones the program is designed for.
Activist Training @ Harvard
When a course is entitled “History of the U. S. for Policymakers, Activists, and Citizens,” you can bet that the target audience is the second group of constituents.
Where’s the Real Diversity?
The latest issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education includes a special supplement on “Diversity in Academe” that is only missing one thing.
Journalism School Discovers News
The Columbia Journalism School has discovered something newspaper readers and television viewers have long been seeking—facts.
Do Pell Grants Raise Tuition?
Academics tend to circle the wagons when you suggest that Pell grant increases lead to tuition hikes.
Candle in the Tower
Academia may be the hardest place to be “people of faith.”
Obamacare Implosion Not Academic
The professoriate, as seen through the eyes of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), thinks that Obamacare is wildly popular despite GOP efforts to make it unpopular.