There are some of us in the academy whose parents were not professors. But there’s a whole whole lot whose parents were professors. Like, way more than you’d think, even if you expected it
One thing about the left is that there’s often a tendency to replace policy with slogan. This is OK; it’s not really up to people making demands to work out all the details before they mak
Mercifully this has not happened at my employer, but colleges and universities around the country have cynically used COVID to shock doctrine the humanities out of existence or near so, as well as des
It’s very slowly starting to change, but older politicians and really older Americans generally just don’t get the overwhelming burden of student loan debt, because they didn’t exper
As a public school kid all the way through and now a public university teacher, I am a bit resentful of how all the media attention for higher education focuses on the same elite institutions where al
Colleges and universities around the nation are using COVID-19 related budget crises to double down on their long existing attack on the humanities and social sciences. First, the University of Vermon
Rita Konaev has a great piece at the Washington Post on the Trump administration’s new policy for international students. If this policy had been enacted when I was an international student, it
Apropos the two post from yesterday on COVID-19 and education, three Georgetown professors – Shweta Bansal, Colin Carlson and John Kraemer – have a piece in the Washington Post arguing against bri