by Madeline Kirkpatrick Many things come to mind when one imagines the archetypal college student; chimneys of textbooks, late-night partying—er, studying, the proverbial cap-and-gown for graduation. And while…
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Following a lengthy search for a new president, marked by the firing of two very expensive search firms, the Board of Trustees at City State University has…
by Jonathan Rees While this piece from the NYT‘s business section is designed for any worker, it should have special relevance for academics: These are the kinds of comments…
by Kathryn A. Higgins One day while I was waiting in line for my daily one free cup of coffee – a perquisite of my job of…
by Barbara Shelley College isn’t cool on the GOP campaign trail. First we had Mitt Romney accusing President Barack Obama of hanging out, at least metaphorically, in…
by P.D. Lesko President Obama came to Ann Arbor to tell the country that federal aid to colleges should be tied to tuition costs. Federal aid to…
by Hans A. Von Spakovsky The only place for discrimination in a law school is as a lesson in the classroom — where professors teach young legal…
by Henry A. Giroux In both the United States and many other countries, students are protesting against rising tuition fees, the increasing financial burdens they are forced…
by Marty Nemko We have, for decades, accepted that graduates earn $1 million more than non-graduates over their lifetime. That statistic is misleading for a number of…
by John D’Angelo Here’s what stupid uneducated people imagine that college literature professors do: teach. Here is what college literature professors actually do: write obscure papers that…
