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Section: Opinion

In Our MOOC Moment, Public Opinion about Teacher Quality Irrelevant

MOOCs will most likely remain apart of the education landscape as President Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology have urged him to let market forces develop better systems to employ the technology.

January 21, 2014

African-American

‘12 Years a Slave’ Shows Real Value of Ethnic History

This isn’t a movie that beats around the bush with style or euphemism.

January 19, 2014

Faculty & Staff

HBCUs Need to Seek Leaders from Nontraditional Sources

In this environment of limited educational funds, stable leadership is the key to ensuring the health of any university. However, unsteady leadership acutely impacts historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). With the recent departure of Alcorn State University’s former president, M. Christopher Brown, another HBCU has seen a change in leadership. Unfortunately, some of these […]

January 19, 2014

Community Colleges

Fighting Inequality: Is Higher Ed Creating a New Class of Highly Educated Poor?

In this era where college tuition is pretty much an automatic $40,000 a year, even with scholarships, the average middle-class family still struggles.

January 13, 2014

Students

Baraka’s Legacy: Let’s Not Forget Inaugural Black Studies Professor

A major chapter is often left out in the recent attempts to share Amiri Baraka’s story and define his legacy — pioneering, prominent professor.

January 13, 2014

Community Colleges

Let’s Not Underestimate Undermatch

Some of the small details of undermatch have big implications for higher education reform.

January 7, 2014

African-American

Harris-Perry’s Apology May Be Too Smart for Right-Wing Zealots

I saw her apology and hope it was enough to kill the fake outrage over a joke made on her show about Mitt Romney’s adoptive Black grandchild.

January 6, 2014

African-American

Here’s Hoping That the Current Racial Climate Will Improve

Another year is upon us and it is time to reflect on how racially intense the year 2013 was.

January 2, 2014

Asian American Pacific Islander

‘Anchorman 2’ and the Normalization of an Ethnic Slur

Filipino dog-eater joke no different from tired, old jokes about Blacks eating watermelon and fried chicken.

December 29, 2013

Sports

Every Student Needs a Success Plan

Is it OK to just put our goals and dreams on auto pilot and think that we will achieve them? Of course not.

December 26, 2013

Opinion

An Open Letter to an Anti-Affirmative Action Scholar

If you decide to put your energy into strengthening your mismatch theory, how about broadening your theory to all students, of all races?

December 26, 2013

Leadership & Policy

College President’s Primary Goal? Make a Difference

For those attracted to the work it’s a pretty unique job as college remains that one special place where dreams still matter.

December 24, 2013

Faculty & Staff

Summoning a Little Sympathy for the Harvard Non-Bomber, Eldo Kim

It’s sad that the academic and financial pressure in college is such that a student is unable to tell the simple truth that he is unprepared to take an exam.

December 22, 2013

Health

Stress, Test-Avoidance, and Unmet Needs: Lessons Learned from Eldo Kim and the Model Minority Stereotype

Research has found that, although the idea of being a model minority seems like a positive perception of Asian Americans and their community, this designation has negative effects.

December 19, 2013

African-American

Are Americans Experiencing a Crisis in Faith?

A world that is marred with economic uncertainty, ongoing crisis, social upheaval and other forms of unrest can cause any person to feel disillusion.

December 17, 2013

Faculty & Staff

Boulder’s Anti-Intellectual, Unfree Culture of Fear

How are we supposed to develop as intellectuals if we shy away from challenging ideas?

December 17, 2013

Opinion

History Suggests College Rating System a Losing Proposition

The proposal to tie students’ financial aid to government ratings of the college they attend is perhaps the worst idea ever put forward for higher education by a sitting president.

December 16, 2013

Faculty & Staff

The Economic Divide at New York University

There have been reports about the financial inequalities between faculty members at New York University, so how will this affect the college experience for prospective students?

December 15, 2013