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...
by jpitney | Jun 4, 2025 | Civic Education, Civility, Deliberation, Higher Education
Claremont McKenna College Commencement, Hiram Chodosh “Your traverse of the stage today is the road the world needs to follow. You prove the possible. The 64% of Americans who have lost confidence in higher education have not met you. You face and surmount the...
by jpitney | May 18, 2025 | Civility, Higher Education, Uncategorized
Sarah D. Sparks at Education Week: Amid increasingly divisive public discourse, civility has become a sought-after skill for colleges and universities struggling to maintain a rich set of viewpoints on campus, and for employers trying to build diverse workplaces. Now,...
by jpitney | May 13, 2025 | Higher Education, Taxes
Jessica Blake at Inside Higher Ed: House Republicans on the Ways and Means Committee released the full version of a long-awaited tax bill Monday that does for higher ed exactly what they suggested it would in a draft version Friday: dramatically increase the excise...
by jpitney | May 12, 2025 | Claremont McKenna College, Free Speech, Higher Education
Henry Long at The Claremont Independent: A commencement speaker should embody the principles of the College, and Rushdie has done just that. CMC is neither a Christian college nor a Muslim one. It doesn’t stand for religious dogma or some vague notion of belonging....
