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A New Name for Calhoun College?

A Yale University task force has recommended that the campus’s Calhoun College be renamed. In the Chronicle of Higher Education.

State Support Up 3.4%

Higher ed appropriations increased in more than three quarters of states in 2016-17. In Inside Higher Ed.

Trump Should Drain the Academic Swamp

Instead of fiddling while Berkeley burned, Trump quickly responded to the anarchy that prevented Milo Yiannopoulos from speaking. In American Thinker.

Men Without Work

There is an unseen crisis in America today: tens of millions of men, in the prime years of their working lives, have dropped out of the labor force. In Philanthropy Daily.

Laureate Goes Public

For-profit Laureate Education becomes a publicly held company and the first such company to adopt benefit status, signaling its intent to focus on mission as well as money. In Inside Higher Ed.

Yiannopoulos Talk Canceled

Berkeley cancels a talk by Milo Yiannopoulos as violent protests break out on campus. In the Chronicle of Higher Education.

A Plan to Restore Freedom on Campus

State lawmakers should use the power of the purse to abolish speech codes—making public colleges into a model for private ones. In the Wall Street Journal.

Decision Day for DeVos

The Senate education committee is set to vote today on the nomination of Betsy DeVos in an unusually contentious confirmation process for an education secretary. In Inside Higher Ed.