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While many colleges purport to offer Middle East Studies courses, few of the professors holding forth on the subject can offer any real insight into the region. A notable exception is Bernard Lewis.

The higher education establishment has a mixed record on delivering the diversity it claims to prize, at best.

The higher education establishment has a mixed record on delivering the diversity it claims to prize, at best.

Can today’s anti-war movement be compared justly to the British appeasers of the 30s?

Leftist scholars converged at Brookings recently to share their worries about income inequity, lack of opportunity in America and increased poverty.

American businesses would rather gamble on finding talent abroad than rely on homegrown collegiates who have been through the entire public school system in the United States. There may be some good reasons for that.

At a recent discussion at Brookings, some education reporters gave their views on education and social mobility.

Why are so many boys failing in school?

Mal Kline provides a wrap-up of U.S. campuses from the greening of Florida Gulf Coast University to English experimentation at Johns Hopkins.

Some good and bad news from Bucknell.

The new athletic director appointed to the NCAA to oversee Title IX may be surprised by what some women in academia have to say about the program.

Jonathan Brent, editorial director of the Yale University Press, shows us in the September 8th installment of the Chronicle of Higher Education that Gunther Grass has long been ambivalent, at best about the nature of totalitarian governments.