University of Colorado Prof. Ward Churchill doesn’t mince words, and it’s gotten him into a peck of trouble–and thrust him into a national debate about free speech and academic freedom. In 2001, Churchill wrote an essay suggesting that 9/11 victims deserved their fate, calling some workers in the World Trade Center “little Eichmanns” (a...
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How much money is enough?
A court ruling could bring a windfall to New York City schools
Hot on the trail of academic fraud
When the Pennsylvania attorney general’s office sued a self-described online university last month for allegedly selling fake diplomas–including an M.B.A. it conferred upon an investigator’s house cat–Allen Ezell wasn’t a bit surprised. For 25 years, Ezell, founder and chief of the FBI’s diploma mill task force, pursued fraudsters who sell fake academic credentials using...
I do not like atrocities
Few parents who read (and reread) the Dr. Seuss classics to their kids probably recognize the political leitmotifs in these joyful rhyming books. Did you know, for example, that Yertle the Turtle was based on the rise and fall of Nazi Germany and that the original drawings of the tyrannical reptile featured a Hitler...
Remote access
Rural schools around the nation are expanding students' options with E-classes
The sports fallacy
Sure, colleges that win national championships sell plenty of T-shirts and bumper stickers and gain seemingly nonstop exposure on SportsCenter. But contrary to popular perception, big-time university athletic programs on average do little or nothing to attract better-qualified students or net larger alumni donations, a new study contends.
Yes, your grades mean a lot
Doing well in class can mean doing well in the financial aid stakes
