Higher Education

MIT Professor Who Received $19M in Federal Grants Arrested for Concealing Ties to China

By Brittany Bernstein January 14, 2021

Mechanical engineering professor Gang Chen faces charges of wire fraud, failing to file a foreign bank account report, and making a false statement in a tax return.

Conservative Professor Retires from Chapman University after Trump Rally Backlash

By Brittany Bernstein January 14, 2021

Conservative attorney John Eastman will retire after his support for Trump’s efforts to overturn the election results sparked backlash among his colleagues.

Should Government Act to Make College Sports Safer?

By George Leef January 11, 2021

Many people think so.

A Professor Looks Back on His Career, Part II

By George Leef January 8, 2021

English professor Thomas Bertonneau focuses on the faculty and is quite unhappy at what has become of the professoriate.

NR PLUS

The Great Reset

By James Lileks January 7, 2021

Lunatic paranoids think it means a lizard in the shape of Bill Gates is going to microchip everyone with a vaccine so we can be tracked.

Is the Wisdom of Homer Immune to Cancel Culture?

By Victor Davis Hanson January 7, 2021

Only the ignorant would flaunt their refusal to read the West’s first — and still-enlightening — poet.

College Officials Find New Ways to Silence Unwanted Professors

By George Leef January 6, 2021

School officials have figured out how to crush faculty members they no longer want around.

Higher Ed Changes We’d Like to See in 2021

By George Leef January 4, 2021

At the Martin Center, we have compiled a list of changes we'd like to see this year.

The New Strategy to Suppress Conservative Voices on Campus

By Adam Hoffman January 4, 2021

Those voices are still being stifled, even if the disinvitation craze is abating.

A ‘Perpetual Undergraduate’ Reflects on the Student Loan Trap

By George Leef December 30, 2020

Too bad that the political class is only able to think about debt relief and not the underlying problem.