Few undergraduates receiving a degree are able to speak or read a foreign language. Most have never taken a course in quantitative reasoning or acquired the knowledge needed to be a reasonably informed citizen in a democracy. And those are only some of...

*Editor’s note: One of the most valuable projects The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education has ever undertaken was to publish in the fall of 2006 a lengthy chronology of the history of blacks in higher education. because of its length and because of...

Think social networking, gay marriage, stem cells or the rise of China. Most companies look nothing like they did 50 years ago. Think General Motors, AT&T or Goldman Sachs. Yet undergraduate education changes remarkably little over time. My immediate...

Think social networking, gay marriage, stem cells or the rise of China. Most companies look nothing like they did 50 years ago. Think General Motors, AT&T or Goldman Sachs. Yet undergraduate education changes remarkably little over time. My immediate...

Harvard’s 375th anniversary. Faust is the latest Harvard leader to visit India. Charles Eliot traveled to India in 1911-12, though two years after stepping down as president. Sitting Harvard President Nathan Pusey visited India in 1961, delivering an...

Government is the American Way: Jeff Madrick, The Case for Big Government 4. Big Government is the Unsustainable American Drift: William Voegeli, Never Enough; Yuval Levin, “Beyond the Welfare State” (This will take two weeks and the Levin will be...