The Higher Education Act is up for reauthorization this year, so this is an especially good time to talk about improvements to it.

The New York Times recently published a fascinating piece that exposed the fraudulent research of one Diederik Stapel, a professor of social psychology at Tilburg Unive

One of the more annoying tropes of the left is that while it may be all right for profit-oriented businesses to function in many markets – I have yet to hear anyone demand that dry cleaning, for example, be done by non-profit entities – they shouldn’t be in “helping” fields like healthcare and e

Fareed Zakaria, one of Time’s columnists, has a new piece entitled “The Thin-Envelope Crisis.”  It’s an exercise in hand-wringing over the supposed complicity of our colleges and universities in the decline of econo

(This piece is cross-posted at MindingtheCampus.com)

A friend recently sent me an article entitled “University Presidents – Speak Out!,” published in The Nation.

During the fat years for higher education (roughly, 1965 through 2008), when more and more money was pouring in, most colleges and universities added lots of administrative offices and programs.

When we hear talk about the “need” for greater “diversity” on American campuses, the speaker is almost always talking about racial/ethnic diversity – the assumption that some students are more “interesting” and will add more to the school just because of their ancestry.