An academic veteran is concerned with the degree to which student debt affects academic performance. Now if only university VIPs would notice the extent to which college costs lead to student debt.
Articles By: Malcolm A. Kline
Catholic School Reclaims Identity
One Catholic university has cancelled a speaker who is pro-choice on abortion.
Donors Beware
What colleges do to donors takes “biting the hand that feeds you” to a whole new level of tetanus.
Answering Tenure Arguments
Academia, in the person of the formidable John K. Wilson, has found our 100 arguments against tenure wanting, to put it mildly.
Straws In The Wind
We usually write about bad news in academia, of which there is no shortage. Nevertheless, in keeping with the spirit of the era, we must make note of signs of hope and change.
Obamacare Invades Catholic Colleges
Those religious institutions which were told that the national health care law passed by Congress and signed by the president would not force them to comply with parts of the statute that conflict with their religion may have been misinformed.
Administrative Overload Supersized
At a time when most Americans are beyond belt-tightening in trying to trim expenses, some colleges and universities are still having a hard time shedding that administrative bloat.
Academics Pick “Smart” Cartoon
Academics are very proud of their scholarly research. Maybe they shouldn’t be.
100 arguments against tenure, Part III
Here’s the rest of our arguments for tenure, so far this year.
Waiving in National Curricula
When White House waived No Child Left Behind standards in order to give grants to states and localities with no strings attached, the Obama Administration’s Department of Education may have actually replaced the string with rope.