WASHINGTON, D.C. — Nestled in Oxford, Ohio, lies the “Ivy of the Midwest,” Miami University. As colleges across the United States reach an inflection point, with public confidence eroding and solutions in short supply,...
A nonprofit that sued the University of Texas for allegedly violating students’ rights to free speech is appealing a federal judge’s decision to dismiss the lawsuit. Speech First Inc., a Washington D.C.-based group that...
Considering my experience, the amount of time and money invested in a project and the host institution brings sharper focus to financial and personal involvement in institutional activities. Retired Chairman and Chief Executive Officer...
Speech First launched the first public interest litigation project against campus bias response teams, and […]
For many parents, August is a month of both pride and tears. Pride because their teenager is taking that big educational step and tears because for many it’s the beginning of an empty nest....
In 2015, colleges and universities in the U.S. spent a record $11.5 billion on construction for 21 million square feet of new space. A Boston architect soberly calculated: “The space per student has in some...
As Martin Wooster and Iain Bernhoft have discussed in Philanthropy Daily, Hillsdale College and the University of Missouri (MU) are in the middle of a lawsuit over the use of a $5 million bequest from Sherlock Hibbs to the...
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