Although their presence ensures steady employment of the professoriat and an excuse for public officials to ratchet up spending on higher education, one might question whether a significant portion of college students should even bother signing up for post-secondary classes at all.
Articles By: Malcolm A. Kline
Second Lady on Schools
While the first lady’s commitment to education gets covered widely, the “second lady” has been even more vocal, and critical.
Real Men Studied
R. Cort Kirkwood’s Real Men: Ten Courageous Americans to Know and Admire more than lives up to its title.
Remedial Nation
If other American industries performed as well as the Education sector, the raft of Chapter 11 bankruptcies would clog courts in the United States for decades to come.
Campus Bulletins
Abortion clinic practicums, polecat mascots, terrorist training, death threat allegations by conservative student activists and drag queen racing. In other words, just another week on campus.
AU Anthropologically
American University may find a link between anthropology and various state gay marriage bans that you probably never knew existed.
Colorblind Grade Inflation
Despite the competing claims of both sides of the affirmative action debate, there are issues in higher education that transcend race, namely the quality of the instruction that students of all races receive.
Diverse Supply & Demand
There is an affirmative action problem but it is not the one that either side of the controversy thinks is prevalent.
Affirmative Action in Real Time
It turns out that the main forces blocking real affirmative action may be the very establishments that claim to want it the most—institutions of higher learning.
Affirmative Action in Real Time
It turns out that the main forces blocking real affirmative action may be the very establishments that claim to want it the most—institutions of higher learning.