Ever since the crash of 2008, commentators have been warning of a coming crash in higher education. They – I among them – have seen out-of-control student debt, rising tuition, ...
One Thing I Like about the Start of School
I have always found the Beloit College “mindset list” amusing to read (although some years are better than others) and I think that professors should heed it. This is the ...
A Female Privilege Ends at Michigan State
Should a public university have a student lounge exclusively for women?
Mark J. Perry, an analyst with the American Enterprise Institute, suggested a few years ago that Michigan State’s women-only lounge ...
Department of Education: Judge, Jury, and Enforcer
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that the U.S. Department of Education forced the chairman of the board of Metropolitan Community College in Omaha to resign (not just step down ...
How to Conduct Fraud and Avoid Punishment
Signs are building that the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is going to get away with 18 years of allowing one of its academic departments to conduct academic ...
Fisk University Offends the Art World
Even more arrogant than many university administrators may be philanthropic administrators such as those who run art museums.
Fisk University has been struggling financially, and a few years ago tried to ...
Humanity Loses
Political correctness doesn’t get sadder than this. Dean Jodi Kelly of Matteo Ricci College, a small humanities-focused college within Seattle University, has resigned.
The resignation is a victory for students who ...
More Evidence that the Feds Are Pushing Up Tuition
Even the New York Times is now recognizing that federal funding of colleges and universities raises tuition. In a column last week discussing Hillary Clinton’s plan to provide free college ...
Better Food, Worse Low-income Aid
Malcolm Gladwell, New Yorker writer and author of The Outliers and The Tipping Point, among other books, always has something original to say. This time it’s a critique of expensive ...
A $2.2 Billion Non-Endowment at Virginia
In a remarkably understated display of wealth, the University of Virginia has set aside $2.2 billion in a fund for “strategic” investments, Nick Anderson of the Washington Post reports. This ...