It has become fashionable in academic circles to declare that academic freedom is under attack. Ever since September 11, 2001, the argument goes, legislators and outsiders have intruded unconscionably upon professors’ freedom to teach,...
Too often college and university trustees think their role is to raise money—and to leave the health of their institutions up to campus constituencies. Indeed, the message from faculty, administrators, and presidents to their...
A student survey under way at Columbia University assesses whether undergraduates are in favor of a Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program returning to campus nearly 40 years after ROTC was dismantled at the Ivy...
Your article on the vertiginous increase of salaries for university presidents (“Most College Presidents’ Pay Climbing,” U.S. News, Nov. 17) repeats the old refrain of college officials that generous compensation packages are necessary to...
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