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The Review | Essay
Higher Ed Is a Land of Dead-End Jobs
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The Review | OpinionDisgraced Presidents Shouldn’t Get Tenure
Why enrich someone whose career ended in controversy? -
The Review | Opinion
Everyone’s Wrong About FIRE
The organization to defend campus free speech has its problems, but they’re not what critics think.
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Why Higher Education Is in a Dismal State
Look first at the legions of administrators and support staff, who now greatly outnumber full-time faculty. -
New Jersey City U. Isn’t Like Every Public Regional
That’s important to remember when evaluating its financial decisions and the accountability for them. -
With Free-Speech Survey, U. of Wisconsin System Has Lost Its Way
Their only use will be as weapons by those politicians who have an anti-university bias.
More Review
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The Review | Opinion
Can We Finally Topple the Tyranny of Rankings?
This is the best chance to kill the conformist pseudoscience of U.S. News, once and for all. -
The Review | Opinion
Higher Ed’s Prestige Paralysis
College reputations are fixed, valuable, and based on almost no hard evidence. -
The Review | Opinion
The Hard Truths of the Academic-Labor Crisis
Even if striking workers win, the system is still rigged against them. -
The Review | Essay
The Political Prophet Harvard Didn’t Want
In our age of global conflict, István Hont is finally having his moment. -
The Review | Essay
The Rise of China’s Universities
No nation has a more successful record of promoting talent to serve state and society. -
The Review | Essay
My Cartoonish Cancellation
How I became the subject of an equity investigation at the University of Michigan. -
The Review | Opinion
10 Ways Colleges Can Diversify After Affirmative Action
There are many options beyond racial preferences. -
The Review | Opinion
The Moral Force of the Black University
A 1968 student uprising at the Tuskegee Institute married practical demands with political vision. -
The Review | Reporting
The Cruelty of Faculty Churn
Term-limited lectureships give scholars a taste of academic life — then yank it away. -
The Review | Opinion
Does It Matter if Our Universities Look Like America?
A key player in the 2003 Grutter case takes stock of Monday’s Supreme Court arguments.
