Politics (national)

AAUP releases principles to defend rights of faculty members against those calling for anti-indoctrination or balancing measures.

University's professors take to the (virtual) streets after the Hoover Institution announces its newest distinguished visiting fellow, the former secretary of defense.

Or you may also invite the wrath of Congress. A House Republican seeks to cut off federal aid to Columbia University over speech by Iran's president.

Sen. Hillary Clinton, the Democratic front runner for president in 2008, unveiled a college aid plan Thursday that would pour $8 billion a year in new funds into an expanded tuition tax credit, bigger Pell Grants, support for community colleges, and work force training, among other things. It would also require public colleges to set multiyear tuition rates to help families better plan to pay for college and compel them to publish information about the employment rates and earnings of their students upon graduation (proposals that even the Spellings Commission might love).

A series of focus groups finds that today's college students are involved in civic activism but distrustful of the political system's polarization and opacity.

Study suggests that the lack of ideological diversity among professors can be traced in part to reasons (other than bias) why right-leaning undergrads don't pursue Ph.D.'s.

In unusual move for this stage of a campaign, scholars join those issuing endorsements and trying to rally support.

Two business school students turn a class project into an Internet startup that lets students poll their own campuses.

Obama, Giuliani have support of 18-24 year olds, who also like idea of a major third-party candidate, twice-yearly survey from Harvard's Institute of Politics shows.

16 years after Bill Clinton, another "education governor" seeks the presidency. A look at the Huckabee record on higher ed.