With an open invitation from Education Secretary Margaret Spellings to play a bigger role in federal accreditation policy and a new crop of members eager to do so, the Education Department’s advisory committee on...
Gov. Bill Ritter on Tuesday added his voice to the Ward Churchill case, joining his predecessor in calling for the firing of the University of Colorado ethnic studies professor. Ritter made his comments after...
A national umbrella group of trustees and alumni is among the first to publicly applaud the University of Colorado’s president for recommending that professor Ward Churchill be fired. But CU scholars backing Churchill say...
When a faculty panel at the University of Colorado at Boulder last year found Ward Churchill guilty of repeated and intentional instances of research misconduct, the committee included in its report a metaphor for...
For two decades, Dartmouth College has tried to rein in rowdy fraternities—such as the one that inspired the movie “Animal House”—and make the campus more welcoming to women, minorities and scholars. Now, some alumni...
The world loves Shakespeare. But American universities don’t. That is the conclusion of a new study released by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni. The report, “The Vanishing Shakespeare,” surveyed English curricula at...
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