After reviewing accrediting agencies by using criteria so detailed that they were frequently described as “granular,” the Education Department’s National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity switched to the opposite extreme at its...
“Don’t know much about history” –Sam Cooke It would be the easiest thing in the world to make this about Sarah Palin. She makes mistakes like Apple makes iPhones, so there is a temptation...
Did Peter Thiel pop the bubble? That was the question on the minds of parents, taxpayers and higher education leaders late last month when the co-founder of PayPal announced that he was offering $100,000...
How about a 10 percent cut in tuition? In a day when college costs defy gravity as a rule, it sounds like a fantasy. But the University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn., recently...
“Your So-Called Education” (Op-Ed, May 15) is a timely warning. Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa, the distinguished authors of “Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses,” did not offer soothing pieties about American higher...
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