The story is told that when someone asked John D. Rockefeller how much money is enough, he responded “Just one dollar more.” Penn State’s president, Graham Spanier, like most college leaders, seems to agree....
Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, noted at his March 10 hearing on the for-profit Ashford University that accreditors are incapable of evaluating multistate, billion-dollar distance education programs. In this instance, his target was one of...
State funding for Idaho higher education will be trimmed by the Legislature again this year, sharpening the focus on what’s necessary and what isn’t on Idaho’s college campuses. In January, the Washington, D.C.-based American...
In the funeral oration of Pericles, still required reading in the renowned Core Curriculum of Columbia College, the Athenian leader reminds his embattled people that “when a citizen is in any way distinguished, he...
The Reserve Officer Training Corps’ four-decade exile from Harvard University campus ends Friday […]
We used to celebrate Washington’s Birthday and Lincoln’s Birthday: each in February, and each worth celebrating. But now we have a Presidents Day—a deliberately vague holiday—that apparently fails to distinguish between Presidents Abraham Lincoln...
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