John Staddon is the James B. Duke Professor of Psychology and a professor of biology and neu-robiology at Duke University. He does research on adaptive behavior, evolution, and learning; computational neuroscience; and the policy implications of psychobiology.
Opinion
Righting the higher-ed ship is needed, but eliminating tenure may have unintended effects
Three bills affecting higher education are moving slowly through the North Carolina legislature. The bills are a reaction to the widespread perception that higher education has been taken over by an anti-American ideology that undermines its purpose. Students emerge from college notoriously ignorant of basic facts and convinced that the United States is an evil force....