Members of Congress, STARRS, and the Alumni Free Speech Alliance warned the President and the Secretary of Defense that VMI's governance was... Read More
A Columbia professor writes a dumb column, in anticipation of what will likely be humorously bad book Read More
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Colleges must redefine degrees to demonstrate the relevancy and value of both the human skills of the liberal arts and the more technical... Read More
For decades, the sun-drenched campus of New College of Florida operated as a rare sanctuary. Read More
For more than six months, a group of prominent scholars met in private to research, debate, and diagnose what's gone wrong with the... Read More
A new Vanderbilt–WashU report warns that parts of the humanities and social sciences have abandoned the pursuit of truth. Read More
For the first time in a long time, Syracuse University faces a budget deficit. Read More
In a recent RCE op-ed piece, author Cliff Smith advocated for a bill currently before the United States Senate by seriously mischaracterizing... Read More
The just-released Nation’s Report Card presents two different stories. One carries measured good news. The other warns that time is running... Read More
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard—which effectively banned racial preferences in higher... Read More
This report explores the potential risks generative AI poses to students and outlines what we can do now to minimize them. Read More
INTRODUCTION It feels surreal to be a public education advocate from Mississippi these days. After decades of derision, my home state has... Read More
This piece was featured in The Washington Post and Inside Higher Ed , among other sources. Read More
Average grades continue to rise in the United States, raising the question of how grade inflation impacts students Read More
Faculty have a responsibility to protect classrooms as a training ground for thinking, and proliferating LLMs endanger this core mission of... Read More
A new survey of law school faculty paints a bleak picture of free speech, with reports of self-censorship, political litmus tests, and... Read More
An A in a college class used to mean achievement. Today, an A means the average. Grade inflation—the phenomenon whereby universities... Read More
What’s going on with girls and math? The difference between girls and boys is now about a grade level. Read More
A millennial mom has seen a 5-year-old ‘punch, kick, and push my son’ at preschool. ‘What’s hardest for me is what this experience is... Read More
Colleges from North Dakota to New Jersey are trying to get students to sign up for A.I. degrees. What they teach varies widely. Read More
Every generation inherits the Declaration of Independence and its promises. Read More
Meeting minutes show the American Association of University Professors is trying to undermine civic leadership schools. Read More
Across the U.S., twelve million students are earning college degrees partly by 'commenting' on discussion boards, a federally subsidized... Read More
Refusing to measure college readiness ensures the reckoning will come later, at the student's expense. Read More

The technology giant flew 70 educators to its California headquarters to learn about its AI products — and how to persuade skeptical colleagues to use them.... Read More
The best and worst campuses for free speech, based on a survey of more than 55,000 students.