by jpitney | Sep 4, 2025 | Civility, Constitution, Deliberation, Higher Education
Princeton Professor Robert George My philosophy of teaching is straightforward and rather simple: My job is not to tell students what to think or induce or encourage them to think as I do; it is, rather, to help students to think more deeply, more critically, and for...
by jpitney | Aug 29, 2025 | Civility, Higher Education
Samuel Abrams at The Hill: We are losing the everyday language that sustains a free society. The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression and NORC at the University of Chicago, previously theNational Opinion Research Center, have just given us a rare and...
by jpitney | Aug 25, 2025 | Claremont McKenna College, Higher Education, Race
Jon Shields at The Washington Monthly: A deeper problem than the campus climate, I suspect, is the curriculum itself, particularly in humanistic fields outside of economics and political science. I fear that the courses in many such disciplines are closing,...
by jpitney | Jul 24, 2025 | California Politics, Higher Education
Mikhail Zinshteyn at CalMatters: California State University says it’s short $2.3 billion, a staggering budget gap that’s grown sharply since the system first revealed two years ago that it didn’t have the money to properly educate its students. How the nation’s...
by jpitney | Jul 3, 2025 | Civic Education, civic virtue, Civility, Higher Education
Robert P. George and Cornel West at WP: A university culture of civic friendship is one in which faculty and students recognize, and act consistently with the recognition, that reasonable people of goodwill can respectfully disagree about controversial — indeed, even...
by jpitney | Jul 1, 2025 | Civility, Higher Education
Sarah Stitzlein at Inside Higher Ed: The recently released State of the Nation project concluded that “A gnawing sense of angst seems to have descended upon us. We seem polarized and distrustful, worried and pessimistic.” Faculty and students reflect those trends. As...
