Members of that well known ethics group the American Studies Association met and decided that the principle of social justice (or something) demanded they boycott Israel. So they did. Not…

We last met Miss Larson, a long-time university insider, in "The Corporatization of the University". Is the Doctrine of Unexpected Consequences to strike in the government takeover of student loans?…

I had a student come into my office (where I was a visiting mathematics professor) shaking with emotion. This was a day or two before the final exam. I couldn't…

Two months back I made the non-joke that MOOC's---massive off-line open courses---were not new, not "revolutionary", and were therefore not going to "change the face of education as we know…