The country now needs an external test like the CLA to perform a task measuring what college students actually learn that should be the central responsibility of the universities on which students, their parents and taxpayers spend so much.
'Social justice' and 'otherness' research now stand alongside teaching reading, writing, and arithmetic. Are they also pushing aside reading, writing, and arithmetic?
If the seeds of war are planted in human nature, the study of human nature, the humanities, needs to take account of it.
After the 2009 University of Illinois Clout Scandal and the 2011 child abuse scandal at Penn State University, the average reader may wonder why a board member would be jailed or impeached for exercising his duties as a fiduciary.
When we understand the liberal arts as indispensable to freeing us from unconscious thralldom to the unexamined assumptions that form our and every culture, we see that they are not 'going down.'
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Tom Lindsay: Grade inflation is real, rampant, and ravaging a university near you. It would be a scandal if more people knew about it.
Thomas Lindsay: A recent survey finds that closing or consolidating low-producing programs is the No. 1 action used by Texas public institutions to reduce costs.
Thomas Lindsay: The fact that we are failing to educate 36 percent of our students should give us pause before we rush to graduation rate-focused outcomes-based funding.
Thomas Lindsay: National studies reveal that American universities falter at civic education.