When the U.S. Supreme Court gave the go-ahead for attorney advertising in 1977, members of the plaintiffs bar promptly responded with billboards and television ads. (“If you have a phone, you have a lawyer!”)
The Biden administration finalized regulations that threaten to cut federal funding to programs that fail to produce graduates who earn enough to repay their student loans.
High school seniors are preparing for the first round of college applications since the Supreme Court decision nixing universities’ use of affirmative action in the process.
In a wide-ranging discussion about his new book, Brian Rosenberg explains how shared governance, tenure and other practices stifle change on college campuses. In his new book, “Whatever It Is, I’m Against It”: Resistance to Change in Higher Education (Harvard Education Press), Brian Rosenberg, president emeritus of Macalester College, distills a career’s worth of experiences and observations into a trenchant critique of the industry he both loves and laments. He argues that the institutions designed to foster critical inquiry and the open exchange of ideas are themselves staunchly resistant to both.