Perspectives

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.

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

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 small, private Christian college in Point Lookout, Missouri made headlines this week after the global apparel company Nike cut an ad with controversial football athlete Colin Kaepernick.

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.

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

If newspaper reporters largely seem to act as press agents for government programs, perhaps part of the reason may lie in the practical training they receive in college.

Ben Jealous, the former president of the NAACP, is running for governor as a Democratic Party candidate against Republican incumbent…

A leader of the teacher activist group called “Red for Ed” recently posted on social media that he is “not sorry” that Arizona Republican Senator John McCain passed away due to brain cancer at age 81.

The Association of American Colleges & Universities (AACU) is touting a survey it conducted as proof that businesses feel better about higher education in the United States than the American public at large, but you don’t have to go very far inside the report they issued to discover that perhaps they should use it as a teachable moment for themselves.