4+ day, 16+ hour ago  (206+ words) Read that sentence twice. These are Northwestern undergraduates, many of them juniors and seniors by spring 2024. Their professor is telling us the first time most of them experienced democracy was a tent on a university lawn. If that is true,…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago  (395+ words) In this report, Nicole Neily takes on nondiscrimination in faculty and administrative hiring. In the October 2025 Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education, the Trump administration acknowledges this issue, stating that However, two things are needed: an enforcement mechanism to…...

11+ mon, 2+ week ago  (183+ words) High-level administrators such as presidents, provosts, and deans already technically have checking-and-balancing power with respect to hiring because they have final approval of hiring committees" decisions. Their usual practice, however, has been to rubber-stamp those decisions. We further encourage sympathetic…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago  (176+ words) Jonah Goldberg talks to William Inboden, executive vice president and provost at the University of Texas and one of the leading conservative voices in higher education. Jonah and Will discuss the absurdity of the ivory tower, the inconsistency of our…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (484+ words) While the diagnosis is largely right, the recommendations are where the trouble starts: "nowhere more clearly than on what every Yale undergraduate should learn in common. The committee's proposed remedy, at Recommendation 15, is "a civic education initiative that would reach…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (220+ words) While complaints about a campus monoculture are nothing new, higher ed's defenders are prone to argue that progressive bias doesn't ultimately matter because scholars are professionals who don't allow their personal views to color their teaching or research. Indeed, some…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (165+ words) Higher education reformers have long argued that academia needs more viewpoint diversity among the faculty. One group that consistently opposes it? The faculty. Yale faculty recently released a report in which they observed, "those of us in higher education have…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (415+ words) At last week's ASU+GSV conference in San Diego, I was asked to try to decipher the state of education politics alongside my friends Andy Rotherham and Penny Schwinn. Penny moderated, asking great questions. The responses to our conversation make…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (402+ words) In a healthy civic culture, disagreement is argued and adjudicated, not performed. Opponents are engaged rather than targeted, and public leaders model the kind of seriousness that makes cooperation possible even when trust is thin. That culture is no longer…...

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