A recent study by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni titled “What Will They Learn?” graded 1,070 colleges and universities on the strength of their general education curriculum—as determined by the number of...
South Carolina should fund its colleges with a merit system that rewards schools for their graduation rates and job placements, Gov. Nikki Haley told a gathering of political, academic and business leaders Wednesday. “Colleges...
Many of the nation’s colleges and universities have become cesspools of indoctrination, intolerance, academic dishonesty and an “enlightened” form of racism. This is a decades-old trend. In a 1991 speech, Yale President Benno Schmidt...
“I look to the diffusion of light and education,” wrote Thomas Jefferson in 1822, “as the resource to be relied on for ameliorating the condition, promoting the virtue, and advancing the happiness of man.”...
Criticism of Penn State’s Freeh Report is mounting with former university President Graham Spanier’s coordinated assault on it this week, but some experts who have followed the unfolding drama say Spanier’s story strains credibility....
Helen Dragas, the embattled head of the University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors, confronts what may be the most daunting period of her tenure as the group meets for the first time since reinstating...
Florida State better start winning. UCF better keep winning. And anybody and everybody—even the vast University of Florida money-making machine—better remember the famous words of Franklin Delano Roosevelt during the Great Depression: “The only...
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