The University of Maine System has a slew of challenges to overcome if it intends to carry out its mission sufficiently as the state’s public institution of higher education, according to a recently released...
The January-February 2011 issue details the reformation of the Corporation (“The Corporation’s 360-Year Tune Up,” page 43). While the changes are newsworthy, aren’t the Fellows missing something? Governance is about more than assigning committees...
Having to give up illusions and pretensions is strong medicine for higher education. So the sound and fury in Texas bears witness. The accountability initiatives at Texas A&M and the recommendations of the Texas...
During the Vietnam era, trendy universities banished ROTC. The war ended; the program did not resume on certain campuses. Decades after Americans died in distant battle, schools said that the military’s Clinton-era policy regarding...
The forthcoming talk by Michael Poliakoff on the need for a core curriculum is indeed important. As Karla Bruno explained in an essay in Wednesday’s Gazette, several curricular requirements at William & Mary fail...
A few years ago, my family gave $1 million to a large state school in the West—a fine institution, worthy of support. We shook hands with the development folks, and handed over a check....
Letter to Editor re: “State board boosts math requirement” (Metro, March 23): Massachusetts recently announced that, starting in 2016, state colleges and universities will only admit high school graduates with four years of math....
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