You would think that there would be widespread agreement on the dubious value of giving federal aid to the rich.
Faculty Lounge
If You Build It
Leave it to an academic to find intellectual underpinnings in the president’s dismissal of businessmen everywhere—those who start small businesses as well as those who preside over large ones.
Reprieve For Religious Freedom
Catholic colleges and universities may get a one-year reprieve from the Obama Administration mandate that would force the institutions to provide contraceptives, sterilization and abortifacients.
Ivory Tower Cabin Fever
Apparently at least one denizen of the Ivory Tower thinks he’s been cloistered too long.
Pell Grants Not Helping Poor
Due in part to the current recession, this federal student aid program is one of the fastest-growing federal programs to date, but it has failed the poor students of America, the John William Pope Center for Higher Education found.
Breath O’ Fresh Air
After making the rounds of conferences given by groups such as the Modern Language Association, this correspondent found the seniors’ theses of recent Thomas Aquinas College graduates a refreshing counterpoint.
Channeling Gulliver in China
As Dominic Tierney, an associate professor at Swathmore, puts it, it is now up to the U.S. to see and deal with China as a small Lilliputian threat through a giant “Brobdingnagian lens.”
Academics Max On Obama
Nonetheless, a look at the relatively tiny proportion of academia made up of for-profit colleges reveals a trend in the opposite direction.
Does Academia Need Civilization?
Like his peers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Hassan Melehy is quite incensed at the efforts of the John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy.
Rethinking Sanger
In attempting to supplement the historical record, the editors of Rethinking Schools run the risk of obscuring it.