Dive Brief: The American Council of Trustees and Alumni on Thursday released a new guidebook encouraging boards to “be proactive in their role” to promote “a fiscally sustainable model for maintaining [their college or university’s] academic standards...
In late 1941, during the most difficult months of World War II, when the outcome was still very much in doubt, Winston Churchill delivered a speech at the Harrow School in which he advised...
A GUIDE FOR TRUSTEES: Eighty-nine percent of Americans think higher education must change in […]
Accrediting agencies are facing intense scrutiny from academics, policymakers and the general public, with the latest salvo being the decision by Northwestern University’s school of journalism and communications to ditch its accreditor. The Medill...
In his April 22 op-ed, “We’re not teaching the A-B-C’s of civics. That’s a problem,” Colbert I. King correctly pointed to civic illiteracy as a great and growing danger to American democracy. Rather than...
“Does this nation in its maturity still cherish the faith in which it was conceived and raised? Does it still hold those ‘truths to be self-evident’?” This is the pivotal question the political philosopher...
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