In a post for Prospect, Christopher Fear asks why academic political theory is so remote from political practice. He concludes that it’s because political theorists devote themselves to eternal ...

To call something an “academic question” is, for most people, a put-down. But to anyone at a university, it’s a redundancy. A scholar spends a lifetime exploring difficult questions. In the classroom, ...

For faculty members, academic freedom attaches to research and teaching. The Laws of the Regents broadly define academic freedom as the “freedom to study, learn, and conduct scholarship and creative ...

In the evolving landscape of higher education, centers and institutes dedicated to teaching and learning can no longer be ...

In a key sentence in the final and climactic chapter of his book The Moment of Complexity (University of Chicago Press, 2001), Mark C. Taylor declares that “the university is not autonomous but is a ...

Graduation is the conferral of a degree and the issuance of a diploma. A student graduates when they have applied to graduate online, have met all formal degree requirements and their degree has been ...