As I walk in, I notice that Chuck Ambrose is already seated at Java Primo, a chic coffee shop in downtown Arkadelphia that's popular with the many college students in this town. Ambrose has been in Arkansas since November, but this is his first time here. It seems he has been a bit busy.
The last time the institution now known as Henderson State University faced a crisis as large as the one it now faces was 1929. The school was founded in 1890 as Arkadelphia Methodist College. The name was changed in 1904 to Henderson College in honor of benefactor Charles Christopher Henderson. It was changed again to Henderson-Brown College in 1911 to honor another benefactor, Walter William Brown.
University of Missouri System officials say they don’t yet know whether they will follow the lead of other universities in the United States who are now requiring workers to be vaccinated to avoid losing federal funds.
Academic tenure is in desperate need of reform
In order to promote diversity and better protect academic freedom, universities should begin introducing term limits for tenured faculty.
By The Editorial BoardUpdated May 9, 2021, 4:00 a.m.
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Widener Library at Harvard University. Harvard reported that, in 2021, the number of tenured women faculty from underrepresented minority communities was 33 and the number of white male tenured faculty was 620.Adam Glanzman/Bloomberg
In 1902, G. B. Halsted, a mathematician at the University of Texas at Austin, was miffed when the school passed on his recommendation to hire someone he saw as a promising young talent in favor of a well-connected and less qualified teacher. So he publicly admonished the university for its