“There are three types of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.” This well-known phrase has been attributed to Mark Twain, Benjamin Disraeli and others. With the recent comments by Gov. Mark Parkinson regarding the...
U.S. News & World Report’s annual ranking of the nation’s top colleges and universities got a lot of attention recently when LSU’s Baton Rouge campus retained its spot—just barely—among the magazine’s list of top-tier...
Constitution Day has come and gone—it is on Sept. 17 each year—and with little fanfare, even from among the true believers who cite all manner of supposed rights and banishments that appear somewhere in...
You may not have the day off, there will be no fireworks along the riverfront, and your American flag may not be flying but rolled up neatly in the hall closet, but today is...
Is Harvard really the best? It turns out that depends on who you ask—and what you ask. As students across America return to campus for the new school year, new editions of three prominent...
Imagine heading to a college ratings/ranking site and viewing the following set of grades: Yale—F; Cornell —F; and Bowdoin—F One would think that would get your attention? How about: Penn—D; Harvard—D; and Princeton—C So...
Revealing new details about the behind-the-scenes selection process, three men who were on the University of Texas System’s governing board when it hired Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa said Tuesday that Gov. Rick Perry privately encouraged...
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