What are the New Models for Higher Education?
By Matthew Abrams | Education systems that incorporate human interaction and multidimensional learning are poised to change what and how we learn. While the flipped classroom, EdX, and portfolio-based learning all exemplify the tremendous evolution that is taking place in higher education, a whole field of adult…
FTU Course: Is Global Warming Theory True?
The debate about global warming is heating up, Al Gore’s vision of environmental catastrophe has gone cold. What’s the real deal? Sign in to the class here to learn more about this course experience, which is free for students and will qualify them to participate in America’s fastest-growing college scholarship fund….
Bill Nye Tries to Prove Climate Change Exists. Yes, Seriously.
By Scott Clement | In the most unlikely of political talk show face-offs, Bill Nye (“The Science Guy”) will debate Tennessee Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn Sunday on climate change and what’s up with recent weather in Sochi, Russia and the United States (not a joke). The exchange on “Meet The Press” promises…
Why Are Wages for Young College Grads So Terrible?
By Derek Thompson | Forget about the mythical throngs of Ivy-educated baristas. Companies have essentially frozen entry-level salaries for even the smartest graduates. When young people do things that confound the rest of the country—like take forever to find their own place, delay marriage, stop having kids,…
What is the Next Religious Liberty Case?
By David Skeel | After Hobby Lobby, a Christian college asked for a different kind of exemption. Then came the backlash. When D. Michael Lindsey, the president of a well-known Christian college in Wenham, Mass., called Gordon College, signed a letter to President Barack Obama with 13 other religious leaders on July 1, he…
New FTU Course: Should You Be Politically Correct?
Is inoffensive speech good for society? Dave Berry, Michael Bloomberg, Ben Carson, and others define and debate political correctness. Sign in to the class here to learn more about this course experience, which is free for students and will qualify them to participate in America’s fastest-growing college scholarship fund….
Does All Knowledge Start Somewhere in Faith?
By Stanton L. Jones | It is bracing to have my institution—Wheaton College—held up in the pages of The Chronicle as the embodiment of “The Great Accreditation Farce,” the headline on Peter Conn’s essay. Conn suggests that Wheaton and other religious colleges are “intellectually compromised institutions” that…
No Real Greatness Without Goodness
By David Murray | One out of every five Americans has some disability. Seven percent of Americans have mental limitations or illnesses that interfere with their daily functioning. Only 16 percent of people with a severe disability such as deafness, legal blindness, intellectual disability, autism, or…
Pecksniffian Pundits Pan Koch Scholarship Money
By Jesse Saffron | When I first read University of Pennsylvania professor Marybeth Gasman’s June 12 Inside Higher Education op-ed titled “Give the Money Back,” I was baffled by the author’s strong, hyper-political opposition to the Koch brothers’ recent $25 million donation to the United Negro College Fund….