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...
When I entered the master’s program in English at Georgia State University in the early 1990s I had not read Tenured Radicals by Roger Kimball and so was taken aback by the snarling, vituperation,...
In 2006, in the wake of a spending scandal involving a former president, American University’s Board of Trustees made several broad changes in its procedures to, among other things, become more active in overseeing...
A University of Colorado professor who once compared some Sept. 11 victims to a Nazi could learn within three weeks whether he can return to the classroom–or whether the university will pursue sanctions including...
College and university trustees often don’t see eye to eye, and one reason may be that many members of college governing boards feel ill-prepared for the job, says a report being published this week...
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