About to retire, Oklahoma senator Tom Coburn, M.D., has just released his 107-page 2014 Wastebook, a tabloid-type listing of over a hundred wasteful government-funded projects. Coburn continues the tradition of the late William Proxmire, the Wisconsin senator who, more modestly, chose just one or two “Golden Fleeces” each year.
A report on the humanities and social sciences fails to give a persuasive case for federal support.
This paper measures the teaching loads of faculty in the University of North Carolina (UNC) system.
The lure of financial gains from patented research is causing major changes to academia.
Four distinguished economists discuss the trade-offs between higher education’s two main missions.
A mistake by a Congressional staff member ignited a review of research projects approved by the National Institutes of Health. But despite what U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) called “scientific McCarthyism,” it turned out Congress had not declared war on the NIH approval process.
