Harvard faculty admit students skipping class, not engaging with opposing views, and still getting good grades

A Harvard committee study revealed students stay in ideological bubbles and disengage from classroom learning as grade inflation allows them to coast through.
Mankato Free Press

VINE hosts Nobel Conference watch party

It was a sweet setup for Preston Doyle to catch Gustavus Adolphus College's Nobel Conference about sugar. He watched it Tuesday morning while seated in a classroom ...
Ash Center

The Art of the Higher Education Deal?

Archon Fung and Stephen Richer are joined on Terms of Engagement by Joseph Fishkin, Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law, to discuss the latest compact proposed to select universities and the ...
MinnPost

Nobel Conference explores sugar’s bitter role in world history

Historian Ulbe Bosma talks about his book on sugar as the 61st conference kicks off at Gustavus Adolphus College.
Maclean's on MSN

Mark Carney Is a Very Demanding Boss

There, they got a text from a staffer for Karina Gould, the 38-year-old MP from Burlington, Ontario, who’d run against Carney for the party leadership. Gould had made a few mild pokes at Carney during ...
The Harvard Crimson

Hoekstra Says Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences Is ‘On Stronger Footing’ After Cost-Cutting

Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Hopi E. Hoekstra told faculty on Tuesday that the school was “on stronger footing” after taking steps to tighten its budget in the face of an unstable ...