To the Editor: It’s no myth; the R.O.T.C. has been de facto banned for years. Trustees have invoked “the military,” Congressional rules and faculty opposition for decades to avoid their obligation to formally recognize...
Institutions of higher education in Arkansas are governed by their boards of trustees. Amendment 33 to our State Constitution makes that very clear. Yet some of our four-year institutions say a 2009 act of...
Following a similar suggestion at the University of Illinois at Chicago campus, faculty and students in Urbana also may ask trustees to reconsider their decision to deny emeritus status to controversial professor William Ayers....
With just a few months left in his second and final term, Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina, a Republican, is continuing his long battle to reshape public higher education in the state, saying...
In case you weren’t able to attend the governor’s summit on higher education (held September 28, 2010), we are posting Dr. Michael Poliakoff’s PowerPoint presentation. Dr. Poliakoff is director of policy with the American...
Talbert Black Jr. was the first person in his family to go to college and he worked his way through to get his Clemson degree. The Lexington County resident told a couple of hundred...
Governor Mark Sanford’s summit on higher education drew a packed crowd to a Midlands Technical College auditorium in West Columbia Tuesday. Governor Sanford opened the discussion, saying that state government faces a $1 billion...
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