Articles by Malcolm A. Kline

Reading alone is a lost art and reading outside your comfort zone is even rarer in an age of microaggressions and trigger warnings. Yet and still, an associate professor at John Brown University suggests we do just that.

That’s apparently the grade an increasing number of students seem to expect when they’re too stressed out to give presentations.

Sometimes what looks like bad news inside academe may actually be a good omen for the rest of us.

If you think you took a major financial hit, no matter what your finances, when your child went back to school this year, you are not alone.

The vandals who took down a statue they found offensive at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill actually have little support.

Aaron Barlow of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) argues that social media has been the undoing of pedagogues in America.

Members of an earlier generation remember exactly where they were when President Kennedy was assassinated. For a later generation, it was 9-11.

A Penn State University mathematics professor allegedly included his political views in multiple exams.

BLSA’s neutrality pledge is quite remarkable in an age when there is precious little that universities or university organizations are neutral about.

Interestingly, more than half of them are in red states, indicating there may be a compromise students have to make between physical comfort and ideological compatibility.

And maybe school boards as well, thanks to an “urgency statute signed into law by outgoing California Governor Jerry Brown.

Then university administration goes into action.