Higher Education

This whole Boston Globe article on race and tenure at Emerson Univesrity is good and very much worth a read, but this one section leaped out at me the most: Minority experiences in academia differ drastically from their white counterparts, according to new research by the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education at the […]

For those who want a comprehensive, nitty-gritty rundown of the saga of supreme embarrassment that the State University of New York at Binghamton’s basketball team has become, Inside Higher Ed has you covered. Not to be too cute about it, but it does end up reading a bit like an important moral parable on D-I […]

It looks like Gaye Tuchman’s Wannabe U will be the next higher education book to make a big splash. Tuchman, a sociologist, spent six years observing the inner workings of a large public university (she keeps the name secret, but Inside Higher Ed speculates rather convincingly that it is UConn) and interviewing its faculty and […]

Given that the United States prides itself on having the greatest higher education system in the world, and given that California’s state school system is the biggest and best in the country, calling that state’s budget catastrophe “worrisome” would be an understatement. Things are so bad that The New York Times‘ Bob Herbert wants us […]

Here’s part of a letter a reader sent into Phi Beta Cons: I do understand that Indian imagery in sports — logos, tomahawk chops, and so on — can be offensive. But I went through and looked up Indian team names and mascots for pro and NCAA teams, and for the most part these names […]

This is a nice idea: The Garden of Forgiveness at Chestnut Hill College is a space near the center of campus, enclosed by stone buildings and populated by roses, benches, and a birdbath in the middle. Rededicated last spring, the garden is meant as a place for “releasing past hurts, facing oneself and others with […]

It’s from a month ago, but this is an odd editorial from Panama City’s News Herald: Sallie Mae hardly invokes the image of Jimmy Stewart earnestly trying to secure congressional funding for a national boys’ camp. But you don’t have to look far to put a human face on the legislative stakes. It might be […]

According to Wired‘s Clive Thompson, our Facebook- and instant-message-saturated landscape isn’t turning college students into text-talking, LOL-spouting automatons. In fact, his recent article in the magazine’s September issue argues that modern technology is actually helping them become better writers. It sounds too good to be true. Unfortunately, it probably is. Thompson’s article highlights some preliminary […]

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Ed brings us good news/bad news about stimulus funds and higher ed: President Barack Obama’s $787 billion stimulus spending package was supposed to move “shovel-ready” construction projects, including campus facilities, toward completion. However, stimulus spending so far has been focused on financial aid and tax credits, less so on speeding up […]