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The situation of Egyptian universities reflects the immense challenges and conflicts the country faces in the transformation since Mubarak was...

“If you don’t know any better, then what you got is the best there is.”--Frenchy, on how my son loved...

A longtime correspondent writes My oldest, 16, mentioned the other day that he's thinking about going to community college before...

I suspect all our American readers know this passage from Robert Frost’s poem, “The Road Not Taken:” “Two roads diverged...

A good friend from grad school came to visit this weekend. He is the chair of his department, and has...

On November 9, 1965, my doctor appointment in mid town Manhattan lasted longer than I expected and I needed to...

Last week, Ben's band had their first paying gig in Manhattan. It was a pretty big deal -- an attractive...

I have been focused, some might say obsessed, with concern about the future of higher education, if not since I...