Last night the Colbert Report took on the for-profit college industry, and Colbert had a conversation with Andrew Hacker, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Science at Queens College, CUNY. Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus recently published the book Higher Education?...
“The iconoclasm need not be loud and messy.” According to Michelle Latiolais, a former student of John Williams at the University of Denver where he taught for many years, this was a recurring bit of advice that Williams gave to his creative writing students. Latiolais wrote about...
10 More Academic Films In a previous GC Advocate article I presented my list of Top 10 academic films. I received some insightful feedback from various people who read the list. (And I heard from a couple of friends who chastised me for including John Singleton’s Higher...
Welcome to “Academic Affairs.” I am starting this blog with a simple idea in mind: the stories that we tell about academic life can shape and influence the way that all of us (academics and non-academics alike) think about the place of higher education in our society. Here at...
The campus novel has been around in American literature for quite some time. Some critics have pointed to Nathaniel Hawthorne’s first novel Fanshawe, published in 1828, as the first piece of American fiction that deals with campus life. More recently, British writer David Lodge has made...
