higher education

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  9/14/2022
  

  UC's Initiative for Free Tuition to Members of Recognized California Tribes Opens Difficult Questions about Native Identity

  Legally, the University of California system can only offer a tuition benefit to members of federally recognized tribes. But this runs afoul of historically complex issues of federal recognition, definitions of tribal membership based in race and ancestry, and the actions of tribes to manage their own membership rolls. 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  9/16/2022
  

  Partisan Attacks on Universities Show Administrators Need to Drop the Charade of Political Neutrality

  by Holden Thorp

  A veteral university administrator and scholarly journal editor says that the right is bound and determined to attack universities regardless of how much administrators proclaim their commitment to open debate. They need to embrace the role of truth-seeking instead. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  9/13/2022
  

  The Half-Century Road to the Student Debt Crisis

  by John Thelin

  A fatal mistake made by Congress in 1972 was to expand aid to students, imagined as consumers, through the Guaranteed Student Loan program, instead of subsidizing institutions to control costs. 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  9/2/2022
  

  Legal Scholar: "Diversity" a Weak Substitute for Justice, Opened Door to SCOTUS Killing Affirmative Action

  by Richard Thompson Ford

  The cause of equality was dealt a fatal blow when courts and colleges shifted the focus of affirmative action from fighting racism to promoting diversity, argues legal scholar Richard Thompson Ford. 

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• 8/26/2022
  

  Historians Respond to Biden's Student Debt Relief Order

  How are historians responding to the Biden administration's order to forgive $10,000 of student debt for borrowers with incomes under $125,000?

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  8/4/2022
  

  Putting the Tenure Debate in Historical Perspective

  by Adam Sitze

  Academic tenure has much in common with the historial practice of lifetime appointments for judges. Why are academics reluctant to embrace the comparison? 

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  7/18/2022
  

  The Scholarly Infrastructure of the Humanities is Eroding

  by Steven Mintz

  The unpaid labor of peer review and journal editing used to be considered a professional obligation. Scholars today are less likely to see it that way. Why? What can be done? 

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  7/20/2022
  

  University Attempt to Give Back Gets Backlash

  Higher ed historian Davarian Baldwin says that Fairfield University's plan to develop a low-cost Associates Degree college will be an incomplete solution to the problems of uneven development in Bridgeport, Connecticut (a problem that is partly fueled by the operation of private universities). 

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• SOURCE: Forbes
  6/3/2022
  

  Ellen Schrecker on the Parallels between Today's Attacks on Universities and the 1960s?

  by Marybeth Gasman

  Historian Ellen Schrecker's new book examines how the antiwar movement led the right to mobilize against universities, and the costs of that battle. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  5/31/2022
  

  Senator (and History PhD) Ben Sasse: How to Fix Higher Education

  The Senator says that large-scale student debt relief would leave in place the dysfunctional features of higher education. Find out what he, presumably in a position to do something, thinks would work better.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  6/2/2022
  

  Do Heterodox Academy Surveys Tell Us Anything Useful About the Campus Speech Climate?

  Experts debate whether polls showing students perceive stifled speech on controversial subjects are reflecting or driving reality, and if they are being used in a conservative attack on higher education. 

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• SOURCE: Salon
  5/31/2022
  

  The Far Right is Coming for Colleges

  by Kathryn Gin Lum

  Under the banner of "classical education" and civics, the far right is funding a growing number of academic centers to advance conservative views. Historians Michael Butler, Nancy MacLean and Bethany Moreton comment. 

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• SOURCE: Truthout
  5/2/2022
  

  Public Colleges Need More Democracy, Not More Administration

  by Larry Hanley and Vida Samiian

  The Cal State system is showing the effects of a bloated management structure without accountability that is increasingly common across higher education. 

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• SOURCE: Patheos
  4/27/2022
  

  What Makes a Conservative Christian College?

  by Andrea L. Turpin

  What does it mean when a self-identified "Conservative Christian" college determines that it has violated its own mission by teaching Critical Race Theory? Is the violation religious or political in nature? 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  4/26/2022
  

  How "Divisive Concepts" Laws are Targeting Universities

  A survey of recent legislation affecting the teaching of "divisive concepts" in history and other courses, plus changes to what kinds of diversity trainings are required or permitted in multiple states. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4/19/2022
  

  Nepotistic Legacy Admissions are the Gaping Loophole of American Meritocracy

  by Richard Reeves

  Is a campaign of shaming over legacy admissions necessary to shift American norms away from tolerating these policies that reproduce generational privilege? 

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  4/12/2022
  

  John Thelin, Approaching Retirement, Shares Insight on the Past and Future of Higher Education

  A college campus can be a spectacular stage set, but it's ultimately people – professors, students, and administrators – who make the campus a dramatic space reflecting and influencing the wider society. 

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• SOURCE: Commentary
  4/16/2022
  

  Dan Patrick's Illiberal Attack on Higher Ed

  by Jonathan Marks

  There are good conservative arguments for abolishing faculty tenure; Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick isn't advancing one of them as he seeks to punish political opponents for their ideas.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  4/16/2022
  

  Longtime Professor: Campus Free Speech Problem Isn't What You Think

  by Lucas Mann

  The campus free speech debate is framed by a fishbowl of the most selective campuses serving a tiny fraction of the student population. 

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• SOURCE: Nature
  4/12/2022
  

  Campus CRT Battles Recall 1920s Evolution Fight

  by Adam Laats

  Faculty and teachers who want to fight back against the Critical Race Theory panic can take the high ground by stressing the importance of quality research and teaching, if the 1920s are a guide.