Reality Check

I had a chance to participate in a recent meeting of the Association of Research Libraries, the famous ARL. Before...

Periodically in the world of intercollegiate athletics, we cycle through a set of controversies, changes, and challenges that cause our...

How will it all work out? The budget is a mess, the economy weak, the quality of high school graduates...

I am having trouble signing on to the campaign to make our universities dependencies of the federal government. I want...

The serial crises that affect higher education in America carry with them an accompanying enthusiasm for big thinking. Big thinking...

The unusually large reductions in state appropriations to higher education in many states and the impact of the current record...

A theme in budget reduction processes in some states is an enthusiasm for cannibalizing some institutions in the hopes of...

Our fable begins with the recognition that everyone is in favor of change, that magic word for all of higher...