In recent months, Harvard, Yale, and Columbia have joined hundreds of other institutions nationwide in giving students the choice to participate in on-campus ROTC. Since the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” Ivy League...
Could a college diploma be a “ticket to nowhere”? Sad to say, but that’s exactly what the time, expense and dream could amount to for way too many of our nation’s college students. At...
Jobs, jobs, jobs, we keep hearing. But for whom, whom, whom? Certainly not for the many young Americans being graduated from colleges that have prepared them inadequately for the competitive marketplace. The failure of...
Norm Augustine is correct that historical illiteracy at the high school level threatens American’s economic and political pre-eminence and puts American workers at a competitive disadvantage (“The Education Our Economy Needs,” op-ed, Sept. 21)....
Neal is co-founder and president of the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, a nonprofit committed to advancing academic quality, accountability and affordability at colleges and universities in the U.S. What is one of...
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