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Cathy Davidson’s “The New Education” (Basic Books, 2017; 2021) is an updating — and to an extent a repudiation — of Charles Eliot’s 1869 book of the same title. Davidson,

A few weeks ago, The New York Times published a story about college students back on their campuses after months of distance learning. Many were reported to be tired, disoriented,

Adam Phillips, a British psychoanalyst, thinks the world would be a better place if more people gave up. “Giving up," he writes, “which is in everybody’s repertoire, should be taught

New York state is gifted with a host of school districts with fabulous names: Jamesville-Dewitt, Fabius-Pompey, East Syracuse-Minoa, Cicero-North Syracuse. Districts so vast they need hyphenated names to designate them!

It is sometimes thought that in colleges and universities, tenure guaranties lifetime employment. Although tenure implies a high degree of security, it is not absolute. Tenured professors can lose their

To live in a foreign country is to discover new things, especially food. Food is hard to avoid! Learning to eat in France, for example, is an education in new

Auburn Theological Seminary left Auburn for New York City in 1939. In 1960, after a series of demolitions, the roughly 15-acre campus bordered by North, Seymour, Nelson and Seminary streets

We had been in Rome for several days when the owner of the pensione where we were staying asked us if we were interested in attending an audience with the

I have been retired for some time, but if I were still active, I would want the schools to stay open, and to remain on the job — assuming everyone

“We all want to play that 13th game,” said Syracuse University Athletic Director John Wildhack, as quoted by Nate Mink in an article in The Syracuse Post-Standard on Nov. 30.