Taxpayers and students at Pennsylvania’s 14 state-owned universities have paid more than $1.5 million during the past six years for a continuous series of searches culminating in the hiring of 12 university presidents and...
Desperate times call for desperate measures. So it was in June, when the University of California–Berkeley created Ideaction, a website for friends of Cal to pitch their money-raising ideas for the university. Suggestions have rolled...
I congratulate University of Northern Colorado President Kay Norton for using the platform of her State of the University address to reaffirm the school’s commitment to free expression and academic freedom. Her remarks come...
I read Parade Magazine but I don’t want anybody to know I read it because its fluff quotient is way too high. Calling that whimsical Sunday supplement a magazine is like calling an old banana cream-filled...
STATE COLLEGE – Some trustees at Pennsylvania State University are balking at a board proposal that would discourage them from talking publicly about a university matter outside of a board meeting without prior approval...
I write to express concern about the decision of Newman University to disinvite Kansas Supreme Court Justice Carol Beier (“Newman cancels talk by Supreme Court justice after anti-abortion backlash,” Sept. 9 Eagle). Private religious...
As students and faculty begin a new academic year, many colleges face a choice between supporting free expression and shielding students from potentially traumatic material, censoring and even punishing those who offend. This issue...
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