Reforming College Sports
We need a “firewall” between big-time sports and university academics.
Board Games
North Carolina’s new State Board of Proprietary Schools is assuming licensing authority over for-profit schools from the community college system.
The Supreme Court Can Rectify a Mistake
A University of Texas case gives the Court an opportunity to revisit the badly flawed Grutter decision.
Primary Education
Republican presidential candidates agree on the scope of the Department of Education, but not on much else.
Ivory Tower Meets White House
With the 2012 presidential election fast approaching, it’s time to see what the candidates think about higher education.
The Roots of the Protest
Occupy Wall Street might never have started If politicians hadn’t oversold higher education.
Borrowing Votes
President Obama’s cynical ploy to stir up his youth base by changes to the federal student loan program will fail.
Hillsdale Drops Teacher Accreditation
The school became fed up with the costs and the ideological tilt of national accreditors.
The Apprentice
One potential way to reform academia is to combine academic “book-learning” with an old-fashioned, hands-on apprenticeship.
D–n the Transition! Full Speed Ahead!
The University of North Carolina’s new president seems intent on continuing his predecessor’s policies in a time of change.