Brian Rosenberg is president emeritus of Macalester College and a visiting professor in the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is the author of ‘Whatever It Is, I’m Against It': Resistance to Change in Higher Education (Harvard Education Press, 2023).
Stories by This Author
The Review | Essay
Higher ed has a governance problem.
The Review | Essay
Leaders face unreasonable demands and intolerable critics.
The Review | Opinion
The antisemitism hearing in the U.S. Congress was a reminder: Many people don’t like us.
The Review | Essay
The academy excels at preserving the status quo. It’s time to evolve.
The Review | Opinion
In the midst of a crisis, they’ve made clear their biggest priority: job security.
The Review | Opinion
Republicans’ destructive chaos clashes with institutional inertia.
The Review | Opinion
College reputations are fixed, valuable, and based on almost no hard evidence.
The Review | Essay
In theory, institutions stay out of political and cultural debates. But that’s never been true.
The Review | Essay
A recent book review by Louis Menand carries the field further along the path to oblivion.
The Review
Faculty contempt for nonfaculty members is unjustified and destructive.