by jpitney | Nov 19, 2025 | Civility, Claremont McKenna College, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, Free Speech, Higher Education
Duggan Flanakin at International Business Times: In an era when higher education is increasingly criticized for being exclusionary, overpriced, and ideologically rigid, Claremont McKenna College (CMC) under President Hiram Chodosh today offers a powerful...
by jpitney | Nov 10, 2025 | Civic Education, Higher Education
Jansa JM, Ringsmuth EM, Smith AP. Calibrating Confidence: Civic Education and the Relationship between Objective Political Knowledge and Political Knowledge Confidence. Perspectives on Politics. 2025;23(3):997-1012. doi:10.1017/S1537592724001403 We find consistent...
by jpitney | Oct 27, 2025 | Civic Education, Higher Education
Benjamin Sotrey and Jenna Silber Storey at AEI: Schools of Civic Thought are entirely new academic units, with the same powers as other departments, dedicated to offering university-level civic education. Since citizenship is always exercised in a particular time and...
by jpitney | Sep 7, 2025 | Higher Education
Farid Zaid at Inquisitive: The idea that scholarly excellence could be measured with precision is a relatively recent invention. The Journal Impact Factor (JIF), introduced in the mid-twentieth century, marked the beginning of this shift – offering first libraries and...
by jpitney | Sep 6, 2025 | Civic Education, civic virtue, Higher Education, History
Jim VandeHei at Axios: America rocks. Yes, there are countless things we could do better. And lots of areas of legit concerns. But I beg young people to understand the enormous, indisputable advantages of this country, especially compared to other nations. We’re...
