higher education

For more than 50 years, we've been worrying about "grade inflation" at elite American universities. It's time to move on.

A 1990 case from Brown University was the first time a modern university expelled a student for a violation of a "hate speech code.”

The right has had qualms about universities since the 1930s.

"The Floating University: Experience, Empire, and the Politics of Knowledge"

The rise in undergraduate degrees was supposed to increase prosperity and cut economic inequality. Biden’s student debt relief plan proves otherwise.

None of it happened by mistake.

To understand today’s political battles, you need to know how they began.

A missed opportunity for genuine equity.

Why universities must help lead the battle to defend and expand critical race theory.

What we can learn from the work of the university administrator who went toe to toe with Howard Zinn.

Harvard made headlines by announcing that it would devote $100 million to remedying “the harms of the university’s ties to slavery.”

The erasure of Black leaders from the most misunderstood period in American history.

Robert Nisbet predicted the managerialism that has brought universities low. But he also saw a way out.

Hitchcock and Herwig discuss their findings on the teaching of war in higher education.

Historian Davarian Baldwin explains how universities have come to wield the kind of power that were once hallmarks of ruthless employers in company towns.

In the contemporary United States, higher education does more to exaggerate than relieve class and cultural divisions.

While they never intended for more than 45 million Americans to have this much debt, policymakers in the 1960s made fateful choices.

Campus police forces developed as part of an effort to wall off universities from Black neighborhoods.

Universities helped buttress a racist caste system well into the 20th century.

A bill making ethnic studies a graduation requirement for California public-school students is expected to be signed by Governor Newsom.