Opinion

A new book chronicles the aftermath of the MLK assassination. Scott McLemee interviews the author.

A returning correspondent writes: As a Ph.D. student who actually purchases most of the books on the required lists, I'm...

Back when he was in seventh grade, my son undertook a science fair project. For 60 days he monitored the...

Some academics and critics may sneer at Malcolm Gladwell, but Rachel Toor celebrates the New Yorker writer's love of ideas, his entertaining and inviting writing style -- and, yes, his hair.

Once at the core of their colleges, faculty members are being marginalized and increasingly ignored by their institutions and, now, by the federal government, Bernard Fryshman argues.

A new correspondent writes: After recently reading Stanley Fish's NY Times blog on education, I felt moved to write in...

This week I’m planning my summer class, ordering books and sketching out the syllabus. I’ve also just put in a...

After recently reading Stanley Fish's NY Times blog on education, I felt moved to write in. I recently attended a talk about curriculum and program design where large university decided to roll out a new undergraduate program (let's call it "computer science lite") since enrollments were collapsing in a related discipline ("traditional computer science."). As part of the planning process at this university, the committee asked for consultations from professionals in the IT industry (and presumably other educators). The IT sector said that graduates were clearly weak in professional skills (defined to be skills such as communications, project management etc). Industry feedback seemingly played a major, possibly decisive, role in the design of this new undergraduate program. This focus on employer input as central strikes me as interesting and rather unusual in higher education.