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Section: Opinion
Opinion
Six Supremely Absurd Court Statements on Affirmative Action
On a 6-2 vote in Schuette v. BAMN, the Supreme Court reversed the opinion of the Sixth Circuit Court that struck down the law.
April 29, 2014
Opinion
The Pathology of the ‘Neo-Peculiar Institution:’ Sport, Race and the ‘New Normal’
The Sterling controversy speaks to the very real manner in which folk of color are excluded from the power center of large organizations.
April 29, 2014
Faculty & Staff
Sterling Controversy Shows Race to Be America’s Achilles Heel
Here we are in 2014 and race remains at the top of our social disorders list.
April 28, 2014
African-American
The Bottom Line Not the Answer in College Choice
A recent article in The Atlantic provided without context resulted in yet another negative story about HBCUs.
April 24, 2014
Sports
Did Big Time Football Trump Justice at Florida State University?
Investigation shows Florida State University and Tallahassee cops botched case of rape suspect and Heisman winner Jameis Winston.
April 21, 2014
Students
Enslaving ‘Free Speech Zones’
Whenever I read the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, I am struck by the distance between the American creed and American reality, a distance widening wherever I look.
April 17, 2014
Faculty & Staff
Priority on Sports an Issue Even at Smaller Colleges
Too often in the last decade, the spending by colleges and universities for new jobs and the like has either stayed steady or gone down. That is, except for sports.
April 14, 2014
Sports
Rethinking the Role of College Career Centers for Humanities Graduates
Why do liberal arts graduates, especially humanities majors, suffer from inaccurate and inconsistent portrayals of their attractiveness to employers?
April 14, 2014
Students
President Obama, left, told Rev. Al Sharpton’s civil rights group that the future of voting rights is in grave danger.
Far too many Americans are still reluctant to confront in an honest and direct manner the topic of race.
April 13, 2014
Sports
The NCAA Madness Continues: Are You Ready for Higher Ed’s Civil War?
Is the NCAA running anything but a legal sweat shop?
April 7, 2014
STEM
Small Liberal Arts Colleges and the STEM Pipeline
Recent findings reinforce the importance of small independent schools in the preparation, persistence and retention, and graduation of students in STEM fields.
April 7, 2014
Latinx
Young Millennial Republicans Harbor Divergent Views from Their GOP Elders
The Pew Research Center Study did in fact confirm that millennials are the most diverse, pluralistic group of people in American history.
April 2, 2014
HBCUs
HBCU Presidential Crisis: Here’s What Can Be Done Now
Becoming a president isn’t necessarily about amassing the right skills or experiences. It is about developing the right habits.
April 2, 2014
Students
If Student Athletes Are Allowed to Unionize, Will It Change How Colleges View All Their Students?
With the NCAA making a profit of more than one billion dollars a year, I’ve got nothing against the unionization of student-athletes.
March 31, 2014
Sports
Here’s Some Underpublicized March Madness
Too little attention is focused on issues of player safety and health in the media storm following the ruling to allow Northwestern University’s student-athletes to organize.
March 31, 2014
Disabilties
Scaling Up: Opening College Access to More Students
One of the significant problems facing college leaders and policy planners as they work to expand access for students is the range of higher education options open to Americans.
March 27, 2014
Faculty & Staff
Teaching Students the Process to Societal Change
One aspect that I try to instill in my students is that very little that is accomplished is done so alone
March 25, 2014
Students
Harvard’s NCAA Dreams Belie Less Than Stellar Reality on Campus
You may not like Harvard because it busted your bracket going for the fake Buffet Billions. Even non-math types knew there was a statistical joke going on with Buffet having the edge. You hit a 1 in 9.2 quintillion shot and Buffet only pays you a billion? Sucker. It makes the lottery seem reasonable. And […]
March 24, 2014
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