50 Years of News and Commentary

Our educational institutions reflect the life styles and learning patterns of the times in which they were designed. One of the urgent reasons for finding new forms for American higher education is that the 19th century model still in use mirrors a society that no longer exists. Consider the social…

In the first of a three-part series, Larry Van Dyne reported on the troubles facing the City University of New York in the 1970s.

These two seemingly unlikely groups hold the power to give women a larger role on college faculties.

How ‘Dapper Dan’ and ‘Maggie’ handled funding for colleges.

Despite progress, many still feel isolated and uncertain of their future in academe.

Meeting Father Hesburgh means coming face to face with the stuff of legend.

In the last weeks before Paul’s death, he insisted to Terry Weisser that horses were running loose in the bathroom of their home. Terry remembers the hallucinatory horses with some fondness — they brought a touch of lightheartedness to his lover’s days and to his own. Bedridden and in diapers, Paul…

This month, scores of black-studies programs around the country are celebrating their 20th anniversary and, in many ways, their academic maturity. Who can forget the stormy origins of the field and the dire predictions of the skeptical that this fad would not survive the decade of the 70’s? But…

Cambridge, Massachusetts -- Camille Paglia seizes the podium at Harvard University’s Sanders Theater and ignites. Her topic this evening: What’s wrong with Harvard. That’s with a period, not a question mark. For the next two hours, the frenetic and fearless author, who teaches humanities at the…

She challenged ideas of gender and helped create queer theory; now she moves to defend free speech.

To honor its dead, Charleston Southern University puts together a slide show. But the colleagues and friends who gathered in Lightsey Chapel last October to remember Harold J. Overton, a linguist who died suddenly of cancer after teaching there for 27 years, had to squint to see the handful of…

“Don’t go to graduate school.”

Some professors have dubious doctorates, other professors sell them, and colleges often look the other way.

A former high-school counselor has set out to undo the commercialization of higher education. But first he must learn to sell himself.

Are boys born better at math? Experts try to divide the influences of nature and nurture.

Yes, there is such a thing as monogamy. I’m not talking about that.

The controversial historian remained outspoken even as ALS tightened its grip on him.

The man who writes your students’ papers tells his story.

A tale of erosion, seen through six people in the trenches.

On February 28, 1967, Gov. Ronald Reagan spoke of “certain intellectual luxuries that perhaps we could do without.” Here’s why liberal education has never recovered.

How campus rules make students more vulnerable.

Public universities pumped more than $10.3 billion in mandatory student fees and other subsidies into their sports programs from 2010 to 2015, according to an examination by The Chronicle and The Huffington Post.

Defending the humanities in a skills-obsessed university.