Higher Education - Quillette (Page 3)

Why Did Harvard University Go After One of Its Best Black Professors?

Roland Fryer Jr.’s life is a movie script: A man abandoned by his mom and raised by an alcoholic dad became the youngest black professor to ever secure tenure at Harvard University. After ascending to the academic elite, Fryer didn’t resign himself to irrelevant technical puzzles; he put

Rob Montz

15 Apr 2022 · 10 min read

A Student Sleuth Found Evidence that Our University Practices Reverse Racism. Here’s Why I Advised Him Not to Publish It

At the American university where I teach, one of my assigned tasks is to advise undergraduates—mostly freshmen and sophomores. This essay describes a conversation I had in 2017 with one of those advisees. I will call him Daniel. Daniel was a sophomore at the time. He had been an

Keith David

17 Feb 2022 · 10 min read

Standards-Based Grading Will Ruin Education

Standards-based learning does lead to more equal outcomes, but only by flattening everyone down to a lower educational standard.

Auguste Meyrat

2 Dec 2021 · 7 min read

What Is Diversity? And Why Is It Valuable?

People differ from one another in many different ways.

Justin P. McBrayer

6 Oct 2021 · 11 min read

As US Schools Prioritize Diversity Over Merit, China Is Becoming the World’s STEM Leader

In a 2018 report published by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), China ranked first in mathematical proficiency among 15-year-olds, while the United States was in 25th place.

Percy Deift, Svetlana Jitomirskaya, and Sergiu Klainerman

19 Aug 2021 · 13 min read

Higher Education Risks No Longer Being Worth It – Here’s How to Change Course

The fact that higher education is suffering from the pandemic is not surprising—every sector has been affected one way or another.

Christos A. Makridis

28 Dec 2020 · 6 min read

COVID-19 Has Exposed Critical Weaknesses in Global Higher Education

While the pandemic has been challenging for everyone, let’s hope the disruption that is taking place in higher education is the beginning of a broader reform movement that refocuses the emphasis on the learner and how instructors and faculty can empower them to create value in the marketplace.

Christos A. Makridis and Soula Parassidis

29 May 2020 · 6 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

PODCAST 52: Yale Law School Professor Anthony Kronman on the Crisis in American Higher Education

Yale Law School professor Anthony Kronman talks to Jonathan Kay about his new book The Assault on American Excellence in which he laments the decline of aristocratic values in America’s elite universities. Photo courtesy of Yale University.

Quillette / Jonathan Kay

5 Sep 2019 · 1 min read

The High Cost of Free College for All

College is so accessible in the United States that it’s easier to get student loans and enroll in college than it is to enlist in the armed forces.

Daniel Friedman

29 Sep 2018 · 12 min read

Narrow Roads of Bozo Land: How We Came to Be Governed by Online Mobs

Visionaries may be moody, obsessive loners but without them to provide a good idea in the first place, implementers end up working diligently to implement a faulty vision, like clockwork toys set off in the wrong direction.

Adam Perkins

22 Sep 2018 · 10 min read

The Customer Is Not Always Right: A Reply to Elliot Berkman

We have probably done more to encourage business crises and immoral managerial behaviours than prevent them, a fairly insane outcome considering how often we speak of corporate social responsibility.

David Weitzner

20 Sep 2018 · 10 min read