Vanderbilt report on liberal bias in the humanities sparks outrage in higher education

Behind Northland’s closure — and the bid to keep its mission alive

The college transformed in the 1970s into an ecologically minded liberal arts institution. Now former faculty want to sustain that ethos in a smaller version.

Report Finds Ivy League Boards Lean Heavily Democratic

I heard someone say in conversation something like, I’ve talked to the members of the Harvard Board of Overseers. They’re on the left, they don’t really know how radical the campuses have become—or they approve of the transformation. They don’t ever talk to anyone outside of their bubble to tell them that there’s a problem [] The post Report Finds Ivy League Boards Lean Heavily Democratic appeared first on Minding The Campus.

Liberal faculty still hugely outnumber conservatives in higher education: report

Liberal faculty outnumber conservatives nearly 7-to-1 on college campuses, a new report finds, raising concerns about academic freedom and hiring.

Cited Professors Say the Vanderbilt Report Misrepresents Their Work

A new report on the state of humanities scholarship made waves in higher ed circles when it was released Friday, and has since drawn criticism from professors across the humanities. Commissioned by Vanderbilt University chancellor Daniel Diermeier and Washington University in St. Louis chancellor Andrew Martin, the State of Scholarship report finds fault with disciplines including anthropology, philosophy and history—not for their content but for the quality of their scholarship, which the report's authors argue is too often driven by political ideology rather than the pursuit of truth and knowledge.

Higher Ed Is Very Sorry

Just 10 years ago, almost 60 percent of Americans said they had a lot of confidence in higher education. By last year, that number had fallen to 42 percent. Seventy percent of Americans told Pew last fall that higher education is moving in the wrong direction. The disdain has become so difficult to ignore that, []