2019-02-16 18:21
In Groundhog Day sad sack Bill Murray keeps reliving the same day over and over again, until finally he evolves to a different person, with a different outlook on life and solutions to i… Read More
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2019-02-10 18:15
Thirty-seven years ago, almost to the day, the Massachusetts State Legislature did what many higher education experts—then and now—would have thought impossible: it forced the co… Read More
2018-11-22 16:53
Things to NOT be thankful for:
1) Fashion trends
a. cold shoulder style–an excuse for manufacturers to reduce fabric costs while maintaining retail prices–see also slits in sleev… Read More
2018-09-30 15:47
I admit it. I was spellbound throughout the testimony of Christine Blasey Ford during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing September 27.
I listened to Professor Ford as I was driving, whic… Read More
2018-06-15 22:46
Most of the time I like Facebook. I get to keep up with people I like, and with whom I share a love of good food, art, books, music and a host of other things. One of the things I don’… Read More
2017-09-21 17:05
Former Harvard University President Derek Bok has an essay in today’s Inside Higher Ed that I find disturbing. It’s not that Improving the Quality of Higher Education contains fr… Read More
2017-09-15 18:52
So Chelsea Manning is no longer a “visiting fellow” at Harvard’s Kennedy School. Manning’s still on the docket to speak and to meet with students eager to learn, pres… Read More
2017-09-07 16:59
Note: An earlier version of this issue appeared on the American Thinker website.
Recently sixteen faculty members from three of our most distinguished universities—Harvard, Princeton… Read More
2017-07-27 20:31
Terry W. Hartle, senior vice president at the American Council on Education, has an interesting essay in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Hartle, who at one time worked for the late Senato… Read More
2017-07-24 17:01
Fess up. Just like me, you’ve been spending lazy summer afternoons pondering the question of the moment: why can’t higher education get no respect? Put another way, why have U.S… Read More
2017-06-08 16:05
The sooner the evil Republicans kill Obamacare, the better. And by “kill” I mean obliterate, smash to smithereens, crush the life out of, grind into dust. Do I make my self clear… Read More
2017-06-01 14:42
One of my go-to websites is RealClearPolitics; every day its compilation of editorials, op-eds and longer polemics contains a raft of worthy articles. If you’re not checking it out, yo… Read More
2017-05-24 19:06
Miss emerging from her safe space.
Miss has emerged from her safe space, at least temporarily, to remark upon the denouement of the free-speech melodrama played out earlier this spring on th… Read More
2016-02-12 20:40
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So my sister, who is “mother” to my nephew’s second-grade class, just finished baking, decorating, and glassine-wrapping enough heart-shaped cookies so that all the littl… Read More
2015-08-05 13:20
Funny thing about English professors. They spend a lifetime explaining to their students about “perception” and “reality.” It’s easy to understand why they do:… Read More
2015-06-15 21:22
Note to Readers: On June 15 late in the day, Eastern Washington University scrubbed most references to Rachel Dolezal from the website, starting with the faculty bio I write about below. My… Read More
2015-06-13 15:20
Coming of age in the 1970’s I knew one thing for certain: sisterhood is powerful. As a college student, the halls of my university were chockablock with female professors of all ranks… Read More
2015-06-08 16:08
I’ve been thinking a lot about Caitlyn Jenner lately, because who hasn’t? I think there was a law passed somewhere that says we have to.
The first thing that occurred to me was t… Read More
2015-05-07 15:42
It’s a sign of our depraved times that when the Smith College board of trustees announced a new admissions policy, the change was not heralded with a bang, not even with a whimper. Alt… Read More
2015-01-01 18:36
It’s the first of the year, and everything old is new again. Remember Seinfeld, the show about nothing? The updated version of the Seinfeld conceit, Microaggression, is being serialize… Read More
2014-12-18 16:02
“Dear Harvard College students,” writes Dean Rakesh Khurana on December 8,
I know that my words cannot begin to express the emotions or claim the lived experiences th… Read More
2014-08-28 15:05
Every year, at this time of year, the following sequence of events occur, usually in the same order:
grocery store aisles are rendered impassable by sky-high displays of Ramen Noodle 1… Read More
2014-07-09 22:02
On May 20, 2014, Ersula Ore Assistant Professor of English at Arizona State University was nearly hit by a police car when she jaywalked across a street where construction was taking place… Read More
2014-07-08 17:02
Breanne Fahs, associate professor of women and gender studies at Arizona State University, is a wunderkind. She breezed through her undergraduate and graduate studies in near-record time (B… Read More
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