The Pope Center for Higher Education Policy is excited to announce that it will soon change its name to the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
( Published Friday, January 6th, 2017 @ 7:06 pm )]]> My academic field, American Studies, is the interdisciplinary study of American cultures, past and present. Once it was a vibrant and useful discipline
( Published Thursday, December 29th, 2016 @ 1:16 pm )]]> In his new video "Just Say 'Merry Christmas,'" Dennis Prager argues that efforts to replace "Merry Christmas" with "Happy Holidays" are misguided. In the name of "inclusivity," he says, we are excluding the roughly 90 percent of Americans who celebrate Christmas
( Published Friday, December 23rd, 2016 @ 11:26 am )]]> The final year of the U.S. Department of Education in the Obama administration is noteworthy for all its carnage
( Published Wednesday, December 21st, 2016 @ 2:55 pm )]]> It has been suggested that the expansion of free market think tanks on our college campuses is educationally harmful.
( Published Tuesday, December 20th, 2016 @ 7:12 pm )]]> Administrators at the University of Florida recently notified students that a 24-hour counseling hotline is available to anyone who feels offended by Halloween costumes. Other colleges, in an attempt to pre-empt the psychological threat of offensive costumes
( Published Monday, December 19th, 2016 @ 8:10 pm )]]> When universities institute things such as "safe spaces" and "trigger warnings," they often justify doing so in the name of protecting students' mental health
( Published Monday, December 19th, 2016 @ 4:50 pm )]]> It was a bad idea for the federal government ever to get into the business of financing college with its various grants and loans, but at least in the old days, most of the money loaned was eventually repaid
( Published Sunday, December 18th, 2016 @ 2:10 am )]]> The Gallup Organization and Inside Higher Ed co-hosted a conference in Washington on September 15
( Published Saturday, December 17th, 2016 @ 9:01 pm )]]> When politicians and Education Department bureaucrats began designing policies to lessen college students' federal loan burdens, they weren't concerned much with the cost to the taxpayers
( Published Friday, December 16th, 2016 @ 11:48 am )]]> At the school where I taught for almost 35 years, the University of Wisconsin--Madison, campus leaders continue their rush to respond to the BlackOut demands put forth by black student leaders last spring
( Published Thursday, December 15th, 2016 @ 7:46 am )]]> The number of non-academic administrators at colleges and universities has more than doubled in the last 25 years, far outpacing the growth in students and faculty
( Published Wednesday, December 14th, 2016 @ 3:21 am )]]> Recently, a legislative proposal aimed at improving graduation rates at the University of North Carolina system's 16 institutions was nixed due to vehement opposition from university leaders
( Published Monday, December 12th, 2016 @ 10:51 pm )]]> Back in 2003, Thomas Benton-"the pseudonym of an assistant professor of English at a Midwestern liberal arts college"-wrote a brutally honest article in the Chronicle of Higher Education about graduate programs in the humanities
( Published Sunday, December 11th, 2016 @ 11:37 am )]]> Like all public universities, the University of Texas has a governing body that is supposed to oversee its management-the Board of Regents
( Published Friday, December 9th, 2016 @ 2:42 pm )]]> On November 16, thousands of students at public and private universities across the country walked out of classes to protest the election of Donald Trump to the presidency
( Published Monday, December 5th, 2016 @ 12:25 pm )]]> After spending thirty years in a corporate environment, I embarked on a second career as a member of the faculty and staff of a liberal arts college
( Published Sunday, December 4th, 2016 @ 4:48 am )]]> Among the duties of a university's board of trustees, there is perhaps no bigger responsibility than helping to select the leader of the campus-the chancellor/president
( Published Thursday, December 1st, 2016 @ 7:38 pm )]]> Accreditation is supposed to act as a quality guarantee for colleges and universities, but it works very poorly
( Published Wednesday, November 30th, 2016 @ 5:47 pm )]]> Here is a dirty little secret: I am a teacher at a community college, but I have never taken an education course. The same is true for most of my colleagues at the college level
( Published Wednesday, November 30th, 2016 @ 2:51 am )]]> Recently I attended a meeting of a committee of the University of North Carolina system's Board of Governors that has a mission of "setting goals for economic impact." Higher education's role in the economy cannot be ignored; the extent of that role is, however, highly debatable
( Published Tuesday, November 29th, 2016 @ 3:03 pm )]]> Many people believe that the nation's college campuses have become hotbeds of sexual assault
( Published Saturday, November 26th, 2016 @ 12:56 am )]]> American college students have taken to saying that they need "safe spaces" on campus. They really don't, since all they're after is "safety" from ideas they dislike
( Published Thursday, November 24th, 2016 @ 10:02 pm )]]> All is not well on higher education's financial front. At many colleges, tuition prices have reached record highs, enrollment is stagnant, revenues have flattened or declined, budgets are constricted, and regulatory compliance costs are skyrocketing
( Published Monday, November 21st, 2016 @ 12:45 pm )]]> Now that another academic year is underway, many university administrators are anxiously awaiting the final tally of fall semester enrollment numbers
( Published Sunday, November 20th, 2016 @ 9:09 pm )]]>