Courses in U.S. history and Western civilization are back in vogue at the State University of New York, where trustees have approved a policy requiring students to take classes in the two subjects as...
Gary Gerst felt the pull of his old college ties. Retired with money to spend, the 1961 Duke University alumnus wanted to give back to the school that helped shape his life. Wary that...
A group of trustees and alumni who favor traditional curricula released a new guidebook on Monday that is designed to help donors be “intelligent” about giving. Described in a news release as “the first...
Keeping until it hurts? In 1968 a famous Ford Foundation report recommended that colleges put more of their money into stocks. (Long-run average annual inflation-adjusted return, counting capital gains and dividends: about 6.8%.) They...
Students at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa can study college football for credit. During the term between its spring semester and summer school, the university offered a course called “College Football U.S.A.” “During...
In yet another attack on the embattled City University of New York, a new study charges that most of CUNY’s senior colleges are denying their students a proper academic grounding by not requiring core...
Virginia’s most esteemed colleges allow students to choose from “a hodgepodge of narrow, dumbed-down, and trivial courses,” an organization of concerned scholars says. A rising tide of electives and a dearth of specific core...
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