Outside the Beltway

Dan Drezner notes some challenges on this topic, and I add some of my own thoughts.

Repeated studies have demonstrated their bias against women and minorities. Why do we use them to make employment decisions?

Wisconsin-Stevens Point is shuttering 13 majors, including English, history, political science and sociology while expanding more job-oriented programs.

The faculty would like to strip away a 20-year-old honor in light of several statements in violation of the institution’s core values.

While the glass ceiling in high-level posts was shattered decades ago, men still dominate the field.

As a candidate, Donald Trump liked to claim that he only hired the “top people.” and said he would do the same thing as President. So far, it isn’t working out that way.

A stupid comment about Hurricane Harvey cost a Florida professor his job.

Musings on the costs of college.

The infamous former sheriff and current Trump Homeland Security official committed academic fraud.

When a prominent political scientist committed suicide yesterday, I was deeply struck by how much he was like not only me but most of the people in my professional circle.

DeVos plays to the CPAC crowd, but insults higher education.

So what’s wrong with the Whitelash Backlash thesis?  Not everything, actually.  But plenty.

The head of the Federal Reserve tells Congress that the economy is unlikely to enter recession this years, but isn’t exactly going to be booming either.

My latest for War on The Rocks, “Professional Military Education and the Rigor Problem, has posted.

More accurately, some thoughts on commentary about higher ed.

Associate Justice Antonin Scalia has died at the age of 79.

Massive boycotts and protests likely spell the end of Tim Wolfe’s tenure as president.

Instead of eliminating the Department of Education, Ben Carson wants to give it a new, bizarre, and dangerous mission.

When may I shoot a student?

International relations prof mostly assign readings by male scholars. Female profs are slightly less likely to do so.

Gravity announced a minimum annual salary of $70,000. Almost everyone is unhappy.

One more on this topic.

I have been reading, mostly in passing, a number of pieces about an alleged new climate on college campuses in which students are raising significant complaints due to difficult or emotionally sensitive material. The latest example did not impress me.

Freedom of speech means freedom for all speech, even when it is racially offensive.

A big change in an important nation in the most volatile part of the world.

Should a professor who says she “hates Republicans” keep her job?

An Oberlin College student makes it clear just why she needs an education.

Scott Walker argues that Governors tend to make the best Presidents. He’s largely correct, but he’s not the only Republican who fits that bill.

Lawmakers and journalists don’t understand the civil service.

While it’s been much derided in recent years, there’s a definite economic benefit to obtaining a college degree,

The Supreme Court, subject to revision.

The right decision, or the triumph of mob rule?