Courts have left teachers and administrators without adequate guidance on schoolchildren’s free speech rights. Should schools exercise censorship?
- Thomas and Dorothy Litwin Professor of American Studies and Dean of the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions, Cornell University
Students at American universities are spending more and more years on completing their PhDs, only to find there are fewer and fewer tenure-track jobs.
Despite the huge attention to intercollegiate sports, is the day of reckoning approaching?
An academic asks: whom should we teach? What should we teach? How should we teach?
Should you pursue the major that you have a passion for, or one that is considered “hot” for getting a job with a high salary?
Even though America claims to be a society based on hard work and meritocracy, rewards go only to those with the right college degree.
Liberal learning is in crisis and the onus is now on its proponents to show how it is relevant to students’ personal, professional and political lives.
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