Fabio Rojas writes for the Martin Center about the forces that stoke outrage on college campuses. The academy seems built for public controversy because professors are encouraged to question ideas…
David Kaiser writes for the Martin Center about college students’ diminishing interest in studying history. I taught history from 1976 through 2013 at Harvard, Carnegie-Mellon, the Naval War College, and…
Fabio Rojas uses a Martin Center column to contrast struggling college humanities programs with flourishing humanities. There is no reason to think that a modern capitalist society rejects the humanities.…
Naomi Schaefer Riley explains at National Review Online that colleges engaged in questionable legal proceedings long before the federal government got involved. Disciplinary panels — including ones that involved students…
Once considered among the top disciplines on a college campus, English has lost much of its intellectual rigor. English departments also have lost much of their enrollment. A recent Pope…
University English departments once were considered “the crown jewels of the humanities.” Now? Not so much. Jay Schalin documents the disturbing change in the new Pope Center report titled The…
I am currently engaged in a work-related project that has introduced me to the curricula offered in a number of colleges and universities. I am dismayed at the lack of…
David Koon at the Pope Center for Higher Education Policy disagrees with John J. Miller at National Review. Koon argues here that military history is not dying but is…
Oops, sorry for that insensitive headline, but it certainly applies to higher education these days: In the fall of 2004, 50.6 of professional full-time employees in higher education (excluding medical…
I’ve found it hard to write a snarky response that is still subdued enough to post. So let me try another tactic: simply posting the facts. 1. Duke football player…
That’s the argument professor Victor Davis Hanson makes here. He is, of course, referring to the proliferation of programs such as Women’s Studies, Gay Studies, Peace Studies, Chicano Studies, Film…
I’m just not sure what’s up with parents these days. Yesterday, you had the parent of a Southeast Guilford baseball player publicly defending her son’s right to play in the…