by Kevin Bauder | Nov 9, 2016 | Education
So says the Chronicle of Higher Education. We’re shocked. Shocked, I say. White male voters without a college degree largely powered his stunning victory. That leaves academic leaders facing an existential question: What’s their place in a society with which...
by Kevin Bauder | Nov 9, 2016 | Art and Literature, Culture, Education
So asks Jason Baxter at The Imaginative Conservative. Here is part of his answer: Antiquity, then, especially in the Archaic Age, has become for us a kind of buried Atlantis, wherein we can potentially find truth and beauty of exceptional rarity. And the modern...
by Kevin Bauder | Nov 3, 2016 | America, Education
Daniel Lattier insists that “Academics Write Rubbish that Nobody Reads.” Sadly, however, many academic articles today are merely exercises in what one professor I knew called “creative plagiarism”: rearrangements of previous research with a new thesis...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 31, 2016 | America, Education
The Chronicle of Higher Education has an interactive tool that allows you to find out what a college or university charges for room, board, and tuition. It will also display the data for past years back to 1998. By the way, some of the better fundamentalist schools...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 28, 2016 | Accountability, Accreditation, America, Education
In the United States, accreditation for colleges and universities is not run by the government, but by private agencies. The various accrediting agencies are approved by the Council on Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA), which in turn is authorized but not governed...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 28, 2016 | Christianity, Economics, Education, Evangelicalism, Fundamentalism
The Chronicle of Higher Education offers a nifty tool that lets you find out what professors make at your favorite university or college–including your favorite Bible college. It also lets you compare their salaries with those of professors in other...
