Lafayette College was looking for a president. Shelly Weiss Storbeck, on the college’s behalf, called Alison R. Byerly, a former provost at Middlebury College and visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “She...
It used to be that the names of the finalists for the highest-paid job in Pennsylvania state government—chancellor of the State System of Higher Education—were made public. Not anymore. In the coming days, the...
Most Americans would agree that academic freedom is a sacred right of the academy and crucial to the American experiment in democracy. But what is it really? That’s the question raised by the Associated...
The days of being open about the finalists in university presidential or chancellor […]
As reported in “Oklahoma schools fare well in new federal college cost data” (News, July 7), tuition and mandatory fee increases for fiscal year 2014 at the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma...
The federal government is facing pressure from civil-liberties advocates to back down from a policy meant to curb sexual harassment at colleges and universities–just as sexual-assault survivors demanded in a protest this week that...
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