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House Committee Backs Cut for Cultural Endowments
The full House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday endorsed a subcommittee's recommendation that Congress cut spending for the National Endowment for...
Reconsidering the Stanford Prison Experiment
Stanford's alumni magazine has published a new oral history of the "prison experiment" 40 years ago in which some students...
Cal State Rejects Governor's Request on Salaries
The California State University Board of Trustees on Tuesday approved a salary of $400,000 for Elliot Hirshman, the new president...
Colleges Urged to Do More to Help Students Avoid Private Loans
Colleges could and should do much more to inform their students about the availability of federal loans and the risks...
Academic Minute: Women's Health Care
In today’s Academic Minute, Purchase College's Karen Baird discusses the modifications that have made health care more inclusive of needs...
Collaboration on Retiree Health Benefits
Once competitors, TIAA-CREF and Emeriti team up to promote their products and persuade colleges that a major liability is looming.
Where Trendy Is 17th Century
"Classical Christian" colleges turn to the Great Books curriculum in order to advance a small but growing sector of higher education.
Don't Call Them Fuddy Duddies
A predicted wave of retirements of tenured faculty is presenting colleges with opportunities and practical and programmatic concerns -- as...