I find extraordinarily exciting the prospect that we could take an asset that was created by the state government to meet higher education needs for the institutions and students and convert it into an immediate...

Sometimes, in our thinking about higher education, we’re too narrowly confined to a utilitarian calculus about what it’s doing to the bottom line of UK plc. I wanted to make the point that higher education...

We find that in the absence of demonstrable truth, the best we can do is to exercise the greatest diligence, humility, insight, intelligence, and industry in trying to arrive at the nearest values to truth....

San Jacinto is an aging campus. Having a classroom wired with a TV or a projector —- like most higher education (campuses) do today —- wasn’t (the norm) in the first and second stages of...

[Professor Greene’s] reaction to GAMAY, as published in the Yale Daily News, fairly took one’s breath away. He fondled the word “fascist” as though he had come up with a Dead Sea Scroll vouchsafing the...

This is the generation that thinks of itself as global citizens but knows little about the world and acts locally. It is the most diverse generation in collegiate history with the strongest relationships between races...

College towns [are] all the same in that way; same burger, different wrapper.

They’re so cold, these scholars!May lightning strike their foodso that their mouths learn howto eat fire!

Campuses are bubbles, artificial environments that insulate students from the life of the competitive marketplace. The more exact truth is that our campuses offer students the privileges of liberty without the corresponding responsibilities.

When we introduce new technologies into our classrooms we are teaching our students twice.

Schools and universities are (as in a body) the noble and vital parts, which being vigorous and sound send good blood and active spirits into the veins and arteries, which cause health and strength; or,...

Given the consumer-pleasing politics of today’s universities, I have, in effect, seventy new bosses each semester; they’re sitting at the desk in front of me.

You see, at Rugby I was rather a great man. There one had a share in the ruling of 300 boys, and a good deal of responsibility; but here one has only just to take...

Edmondson has incisively discussed the ways college campuses have grown akin to upscale retirement homes for the very young, where the promise of intellectually demanding courses ranks far below the lure of new gymnastic facilities.

That is the Proctor. He is our Cerberus; he has to keep all undergraduates in good order.” “What a task! He ought to have three heads.

The very definition of what it means to be alone has changed. To be physically alone is still relatively easy, but many of us struggle daily to turn off e-mail, computers, or cell phones… Our...

Time for reflection and interaction is a casualty of the digital age, and one of the primary goals of higher education should be to reclaim this time.

Education is political.