Robert Weissberg is a political scientist and author who has written extensively on education, race, and American politics. He is a professor emeritus of political science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He contributed essays to The Weekly Standard in the mid-1990s exploring topics including education policy, academic standards, and racial politics.
In 1964, America's most eminent sociologist, Talcott Parsons, and its most eminent black academic, Kenneth Clark, collaborated on a magisterial tome called The Negro American. What is most striking about the book today, which is as dated as its title, is that it has no index entries for either "…
THAT UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS and administrators are intimidated by the issue of race is obvious. Why? Is not tenure sufficient protection against retribution? Based on recent experience as a result of publishing an article on the subject, let me offer some clues to the fear that racial questions…
NOT LONG AGO, A UNIVERSITY'S graduation rate was interesting only to professional educators. It was rarely discussed. It was a bit of information neither trivial nor profound; it was simply a statistic.
The humanities and social sciences are sinking into linguistic obscurity. This complaint is largely the province of conservatives, who relentlessly parade excerpts from current scholarly books and journals and ask, "Is this English?"