It’s encouraging that University of Nebraska President Hank Bounds has promised that “everything that can be open will be” in the search for a new chancellor for the Lincoln campus. Let’s hope he gets...
When Shelby Cullom Davis gave $750,000 to Connecticut’s Trinity College in 1976 to endow a chair to teach private enterprise and entrepreneurship, he specified that there would be “no exceptions whatsoever” in the use...
Trustees have a tremendous amount of responsibility. They’re in charge of setting the agenda of an institution, approving tuition charges and green-lighting multimillion-dollar construction projects. But how do they know how to do their...
The prolific spending of former Westfield State University president Evan Dobelle has for years been the stuff of public investigation and public condemnation. Dobelle’s actions — allegations of personal spending on university credit cards,...
BEN BOYCHUK Violence. Murder. Insanity. Greed. Witchcraft. Betrayal. And that’s just in “Macbeth.” Don’t forget love, romance, sex, honor, respect, duty, self-sacrifice, free will, mortality – great universal themes that Shakespeare brings alive in...
Most colleges can’t keep their doors open without an accreditor’s seal of approval, which is needed to get students access to federal loans and grants. But accreditors hardly ever kick out the worst-performing colleges...
For its most recent hearing on the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act (HEA), the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee delved into accreditation―what it is and how it might be improved....
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