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
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.
The Review
What if our goal was creating social impact, not preserving the status quo?