There's a certain class of conservatives that love to blame postmodernism for everything. One of them is David Brooks, who blames it for the decline in the humanities: The humanist’s job was to cultivate this ground — imposing intellectual order upon it, educating the emotions...
higher education
Well, this is disturbing to anyone who cares about the future of higher education: On Wednesday, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said the online courses could increase access and keep costs.
Leon Wieseltier asks the right question in his graduation speech at Brandeis: "Has there ever been a moment in American life when the humanities were cherished less, and has there.
While The New Yorker runs a lengthy piece on the (mostly) awesomeness of MOOCs from a classically technologically fetishist standpoint (although it at least does present the objections to them), the students of one adjunct professor are crowdfunding his surgery for a broken leg because...
Good short summary on the ridiculous administrative bloat at universities. While it's arguable the extent to which administrative bloat is leading to spiraling tuition costs (although it is not arguable.
Recommending a Ross Douthat column is like seeing an ivory-billed woodpecker. You know that it is probably impossible, but theoretically one could emerge once every century. Amazingly, today is the.
I've been sitting on this post for over 20 months; writing it, editing it, deleting it, writing it again. It was initially inspired by a book review written by Stanley Fish in the New York Times, which generated some online discussion, then the University of...
Jonathan Rees on how MOOCs allow egocentric professors to drive others out of business while producing lower quality education and the corporate profits that drive the whole thing. In other.
This is a good expose of the real story behind Abigail Fisher, the lead plaintiff in the case attempting to destroy the remnants of affirmative action in higher education admissions..
As you may remember, last summer, the Board of Visitors at the University of Virginia attempted to push out UVA President Teresa Sullivan, basically because the corporate hacks on the Board didn't think Sullivan was committed enough to leveraging synergies and proactive leaderocracy and such....
The education capitalists have a great plan. We starve the universities by reducing their state funding so much that students can't easily graduate in 4 years. Then we get our.
A bunch of conservative Texas groups are taking history departments at the University of Texas and Texas A&M to task because they supposedly talk too much about race, class, and.