Higher education in America being cheapened by free market greed
When did price gouging become an established American way of life, and why do the American people allow it to continue?
Opinions & Editorials
When good teachers ask bad questions
I see it every day on campus: Teachers who enter the classroom not just with briefcases and books, but toting heartfelt ideals to share with their students about progressive causes, usually, like race fairness, feminism, queer and disability rights, fair labor and ethical eating.
The mind's only limit is structure
The philosopher Immanuel Kant says that our view of the world is developed by experiences with it. Johann Herder then said that there are set variations of experience based on the universal characteristics and limits of the human mind.
Break through stereotypes
By Joshua Elmore
Intuition tells us that opinion comes from experience. However, much of what anyone believes is usually based on assumptions.
As humans we may thread together a set of beliefs from a single experience. Those beliefs contribute to a frame of mind which seeks support for its conclusion.
Mayor Lee refuses to chime in on issues
In an opinion piece written by Lee and California's Community College’s Chancellor Brice Harris for the San Francisco Chronicle, they said, “For CCSF, the pace of reform needs to be much faster. We also believe that City College has reached the limit of what it can do on its own,”
ACCJC trapped in its own web
With lawsuits filed against the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges from the California Federation of Teachers and San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera, it is now the commission’s turn to be put under the microscope.
Don't be a social zombie
By Joshua Elmore:
I have spoken in my last three columns about the importance of technology in facilitating meaningful connections between cultures.
I'd like to clarify that the routes suggested are for global interaction and, in many cases, should exclude the local. By local I mean within a