by Kat Kiefer-Newman I have another sore throat, and the damp-rainy season here in Southern California has only just started. I’m actually quite healthy, overall, but because…
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by Richard Vedder As a professor who has spent over 90 percent of my half-century career in higher education at public universities, it was for decades…
By Victor Hanson The liberal arts face a perfect storm. The economy is struggling with obscenely high unemployment and is mired in massive federal and state deficits.…
By Al Kaltman Unheralded and virtually unnoticed, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has been pushing its way into the halls of America’s universities and colleges. Not…
By Kat Kiefer-Newman Have you ever been halfway through a lecture and thought: “Wait, didn’t I cover this last week?” Maybe it’s me, but sometimes the lectures…
by Daniel deVise For the first time, more women than men in the United States received doctoral degrees last year, the culmination of decades of change in…
by Mary McDermott It was by accident that I became an Effective Speaking teacher. I applied at the local community college to teach English a couple weeks…
by Shai Reshef In an effort to earn a college education, students around the world find themselves facing mounting debt. According to data recently released by the…
by Tyler Mahoney There is an old argument for avoiding higher education: "Bill Gates dropped out of college and he’s one of the richest men in the…
by Brian Fogerty In a June appearance on "The Daily Show," Governor Tim Pawlenty outlined his vision of higher education of the future: "Do you really think…
