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...
When four members of the eight-member Wayne State University Board of Governors sued the other four at the end of June, many outsiders looked on with concern for the institution’s ability to continue functioning. That wasn’t...
Higher education is dying a death by a thousand cuts. The biggest victim? A robust liberal arts curriculum, long the centerpiece of collegiate education. The ongoing erosion of general education requirements may be the...
Karen Siegemund, a math teacher at a private school in southern California, lost her […]
Gordon College is an evangelical liberal-arts school whose mission is to “integrate Christian beliefs and practice into all aspects of our educational experience.” It is one of America’s 1,024 faith-oriented institutions of higher education...
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