Bloated budgets, threadbare curricula, activist administrators—the litany of sins attributable to the modern American university is as familiar as it is discouraging. One of the broad structural problems underlying these more-discussed abuses is the...
Earlier this year, Raymond J. Rice was chosen to be president of the University of Maine at Presque Isle. No search firm was used to recruit him for the position, vet his credentials, and...
FAYETTEVILLE — For every dollar spent on teaching, colleges and universities spend a […]
Both the University of Missouri and Evergreen State College have been rocked by left-wing demonstrations, some of which administrators in both schools allowed. Now both have had to deal with falling enrollment and a...
It was almost three years ago that Utah State University received brief national attention over a death threat that promised the “deadliest school shooting in American history.” In October 2014, feminist blogger Anita Sarkeesian...
The questions Larry Veselka raised about Houston Community College trustee Christopher Oliver in a 2010 report were troubling. After a months-long investigation into multiple HCC trustees, the attorney found that Oliver’s voting on a...
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