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| What Could a New Admissions Test Bring? | Last week's vote by the University of California Board of Regents was largely viewed as a defeat for supporters of the SAT and ACT. But it was also something else. Regents voted to establish a new admissions test within five years. If they don't, UC will cease to use standardized tests鈥 |
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| US Lockdown Protests Fueled by Distrust of Government, Experts | 鈥淔or decades, the right has been fueling a hostility to government that has bread real and deep distrust among Americans on the right to what government, not just what government does, but who the people in government are,鈥 said Johann Neem, an author and a history professor at Western鈥 |
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| The next victim of the coronavirus? American exceptionalism | The rise of Donald Trump, and the embarrassing failure of the American state to respond effectively to the coronavirus, has proved to the world that the United States is nor, in鈥 |
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| Boosting Retention at FedEx | Irwin said Memphis chose to offer the leadership degree because it is a flexible program that could accommodate credits from other colleges as well as experiential credits. It blends business, communications and public administration courses. The degree is expected to take six years to complete鈥 |
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| What's the difference between a college and a university? | Colonial Americans disregarded that distinction when establishing the United States鈥 first postsecondary institutions: They were designated as colleges rather than universities, in part because of limited resources and because they didn鈥檛 need the King to authorize them to grant degrees,鈥 |
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| Bellingham Public Schools and the case for fostering citizenship, not individualism | The Bellingham Public Schools system recently , by removing the word 鈥渃itizen鈥 and replacing it with 鈥渋ndividual.鈥 No longer do the public鈥 |
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| 鈥榃hat鈥檚 the Point of College?鈥 | 草榴社区's Johann Neem discusses his new book about the need to affirm -- and strengthen -- the liberal arts at a time when reformers are doubting their value and that of higher education. |
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| Is Amazon Training Its Workers or Creating a College Alternative? | 础尘补锄辞苍鈥檚&苍产蝉辫; that it will provide job training and apprenticeship opportunities to its workers should be received as鈥 |
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| Grade A rules day for many at UI | Some students seek "easy" classes to fulfill requirements that are not part of their majors. Johann Neem, department chair and professor of history at Western Washington University, worries that consumer-driven education might be driving students away from the true purpose of colleges.鈥 |
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| The subtle erosion of academic freedom | Across the world today, academic freedom is endangered. Political leaders in Brazil, India, Poland and Turkey have all recently threatened professors. Two of the world鈥檚 most powerful states, China and Russia, are famous for monitoring what universities teach. Authoritarian-minded leaders attack鈥 |