Molly Corbett Broad’s May 24 Local Opinions essay, “Aboard the college tuition roller coaster,” would have us believe that, if state support goes down, tuition prices must go up — as if by some...
How many people do you need to run a university? Not the president and the deans and the people who give out grades and supervise research and do the daily things that keep college...
It’s easy to suggest that the governance struggle at the University of Texas is unique, full of outsize personalities and intrigue. But the issues of trustee responsibility and oversight raised in Austin are truly...
A new study out today — the date considered most likely to be the Bard’s birthday — shows that less than 8% of top U.S. universities require English majors to take a class by...
Shakespeare, Shakespeare! Wherefore art thou Shakespeare? The vast majority of the top universities in the U.S., including Princeton, do not require English majors to take a single course on Shakespeare, according to a new...
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