Johann N. Neem is a professor of history at Western Washington University. He is the author of What’s the Point of College?: Seeking Purpose in an Age of Reform (Johns Hopkins University Press).
Stories by This Author
The Review | Essay
Education reformers have killed the joy of learning. Let’s recapture it.
The Review | Essay
The “innovations” that promise to save higher ed are a farce.
First Person
We want physicists and historians who mainly write for each other. That’s how they come up with something worth saying to everyone else.
The Chronicle Review
Students won’t connect with global concerns unless they have an emotional and intellectual investment in their nation first.