When University of Texas System regents meet in Austin today, they could emerge from a closed-door session with a public announcement of a finalist for chancellor. The only two candidates whose names have been...
Given the level of vitriol that marked the six-year legal battle between Princeton University and the relatives of a former donor, it’s hardly surprising that Wednesday’s settlement to bring the lawsuit to a close...
In these days of wild gyrations of investment valuations and economic news that can be depressing, it is good to know there are some positive developments in the education field. In Little Rock, Roy...
How about a few civics questions? Name the three branches of government. If you answered the executive, legislative and judicial, you are more informed than 50 percent of Americans. The Delaware-based Intercollegiate Studies Institute...
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Academic Senate is calling for an independent investigation into the UNL administration’s recent decision to disinvite Bill Ayers. In doing so, the senate aims to develop a set of guidelines...
It has become fashionable in academic circles to declare that academic freedom is under attack. Ever since September 11, 2001, the argument goes, legislators and outsiders have intruded unconscionably upon professors’ freedom to teach,...
Too often college and university trustees think their role is to raise money—and to leave the health of their institutions up to campus constituencies. Indeed, the message from faculty, administrators, and presidents to their...
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