In the year since Education Secretary Margaret Spellings formally embraced the work of her Commission on the Future of Higher Education and began her efforts to carry out its work, no topic has been...
A forum on accreditation Friday in Washington, D.C., drew calls for changes in the current system as well as a need to focus on larger issues such as college affordability for low-income students and...
Is it an “academy” or a “fund”? The name of the new Academy on Capitalism and Limited Government Fund could be read either way. And the way people at the University of Illinois at...
Question: What happens when you take a world-class public university, let political correctness run amok, and give it regents who are asleep at the switch? Answer: You get the University of California. Over the...
Higher education is raising more money than ever before—$28 billion in 2006, up 9.4 percent from a year earlier—but the proportion of alumni who give is dropping slightly—from 12.4 percent in 2005 to 11.8...
A scholarly center focusing on Western civilization that was rejected by Hamilton College last year is coming to Clinton, N.Y., after all, but it won’t be part of the college. The college announced plans...
Officials at the University of California at Irvine are scrambling to try to undo the damage caused by the chancellor’s sudden decision last week to rescind a contract offered to Erwin Chemerinsky, a prominent...
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