A speaker at a conference on affordability in higher education set for today at Southern Illinois University Carbondale has criticized SIU and other public universities nationwide for being on an “unsustainable course.” The American...
It was fitting that the buzz around George Washington’s homestead recently was about the first president’s overdue library books, just as the estate’s guardians were plotting a new presidential library in the Founding Father’s...
The grades are in. It’s decision time in Minnesota. Across the state, parents and graduating high school seniors are now deciding which college it will be for the fall. A new report on higher...
Who could be opposed to community service? Don’t we need to volunteer, get outside ourselves, and do something nice for others? Our country, after all, has a great tradition of volunteerism—what Tocqueville called our...
Facing nearly half a billion dollars of unpaid bills from the State of Illinois, the University of Illinois says it will probably have to raise tuition nearly 20 percent over the next four years....
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