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Victor Davis Hanson explains why higher education in America is on the skids
Published: Friday, May 3rd, 2024 @ 8:37 am
By: Beaufort Observer Editorial Team
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Tradition-minded historical scholarship is nearing extinction.
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The Marine officer turned polemicist has written a very bad book.
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At UNC and elsewhere, the (non-)academic medium is the message.
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From Institutional Review Boards to NIH directives, the problem is only getting worse.
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Having abandoned traditionalism, universities are getting their just desserts.
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Five decades of change at an elite institution.
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A faculty perspective on academia’s “professional managerial class.”
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Hatched on college campuses, "critical pedagogies" have begun to leave the nest.
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Although tenure has been hotly debated over the years, it is still widely misunderstood as guaranteeing a professor a lifetime position.
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As a professor devoted to his college’s “pre-disciplinary” core curriculum, I was hooked by David Epstein’s title, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World.
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The University of Pennsylvania was an excellent school when I was an undergraduate there in the mid-1960s. The politics were polyglot, reflecting an era when the professional classes and even the professoriate were more ideologically diverse than is the case today.
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We are living in an era of unprecedented pressure for ideological conformity within institutions of higher education. Idaho’s Legislature has led the way toward reforming public universities through budgetary controls.
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What is academic freedom, and who has it? The question is raised by the recent controversy sparked by a process that is usually boring and bureaucratic: an academic tenure case. Nikole Hannah-Jones, Hussman School of Journalism; she is an alumna, graduating with an M.A. in Journalism 20 years ago.
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Each generation returns the same complaints: college teachers drone, college teachers lack creativity and spark, nay, they often lack even rudimentary pedagogical awareness.
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Former Harvard president Derek Bok has long lamented that our institutions of higher education largely underperform in their missions.
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Back in the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries, church officials felt it necessary to scrutinize every book or pamphlet for the slightest hint of heresy.
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As academia becomes ever-more entrenched in groupthink, it can be intimidating to be a lone voice that refuses to toe the ideological line.
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Oreskes and Tyson published “Is Academe Awash in Liberal Bias?” in the Chronicle of Higher Education on September 14.
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Two recent British policy briefs on academic freedom and university reforms provide some broad suggestions applicable to colleges, British or otherwise.
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Remember the stereotype of the lazy college professor living an almost stress-free life while enjoying tenure, virtually a sinecure, often supported by taxpayer dollars?
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Professor John Ellis has served on college faculties since 1963 and is now an emeritus professor at the University of California-Santa Cruz.
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In yet another window into the country’s polarized political environment, in 2017 the Pew Research Center surveyed Americans regarding their views of major civic institutions.
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On the recommendations of Washington and Lee’s “Commission on Institutional History and Community,” the board voted to close off the Recumbent Statue of Robert E. Lee in the university chapel that bears his name and to remove the name of John Robinson from an important campus building.
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Social justice activists say they want to bring about a golden age.
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In October 2015, the Martin Center published an article reminding conservatives why they should defend tenure.
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One of the most peculiar claims to gain currency in higher education holds that academia has become captive to nefarious monied interests on the political right.
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When college officials violate people’s rights, they run the risk of bringing on lawsuits that can cost their schools a lot of money.
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As more students have headed to college and a degree is seen as a way to shape students as workers and as citizens, higher education’s mission has become more important. Its leaders, and their personal beliefs, have become more contentious, too.
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On 30 April 2019, St. Edmunds College, University of Cambridge, rescinded a fellowship to the outstanding young researcher Noah Carl, who self-identifies as a conservative.
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The promise of higher education has become a trap for tens of millions of Americans.
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Good teaching is vital for college students to learn, but the work demands on professors and what type of work is actually rewarded means that teaching can be of secondary importance.
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That famous line from the movie A Few Good Men-"You can't handle the truth!"-applies more and more to the world of higher education. If you doubt that, consider the case of professor Samuel Abrams of Sarah Lawrence College
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Universities have by and large rendered themselves unable to be policed-sometimes quite literally-and that has not gone unnoticed by the legislators who fund them
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