To Danny Thau and his colleague David Burns, it seemed like a fruitful avenue of inquiry: What would have happened to the planet if Ike hadn’t launched D-Day exactly when he did–56 years ago...
In the growing nationwide battle over who really runs higher education–the professors or the university trustees–one of the most closely watched contests is taking place here, at the State University of New York. To...
Faculty members at George Mason University are protesting two history courses they say were forced into the curriculum by the Board of Visitors, which overstepped its limits by prescribing specific courses. Starting in fall...
When Curtis Chang enrolled at Harvard University in 1972, he was an idealistic Taiwanese immigrant eager to learn how democracy was born in the Boston area nearly 200 years earlier. He eventually went on...
The continuing evolution of two distinct schools of thought on college trusteeship became sharply evident last week, as a mainstream governing board group announced a new center for trustees of public colleges that was...
A rebuke by St. Cloud State University administrators of a student who used an analogy about race has critics of political correctness crying foul. In December, Christopher Monson, a junior at the university, was...
The Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges today formally unveiled a new center aimed at helping state leaders attract and select top notch trustees and educate board members about how to work...
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