Lyell Asher

Lyell Asher is an associate professor of English at Lewis & Clark College.

3 Posts

Look Who’s Talking About Educational Equity

However well intentioned, these programs will likely increase inequities rather than reduce them, and push the nation’s colleges still closer to the low level of its public schools.

Lyell Asher

12 Aug 2020 · 7 min read

Villanova and the Compulsory Pieties of Higher Education

Once the institutions become ideologically homogenous within, the only credible threats are the ones from without: hence the importance of deplatforming outside speakers.

Lyell Asher

25 Nov 2019 · 15 min read

How Ed Schools Became a Menace to Higher Education

To anyone acquainted with the history and quality of American ed schools, this should come as no surprise.

Lyell Asher

6 Mar 2019 · 23 min read