Reality Check

In recent weeks we’ve seen flurries of enthusiasm about various interrelated topics, all about money. We hear of the concern...

This is the time of endless speculation about which division I-A college football team is the best in America. We...

Over the past decade much discussion has focused on the growing percentage of college teaching done by contingent faculty. Variously...

OK, I’m following the conversation in Washington about putting universities and colleges on a watch list if they increase their...

Testing enthusiasm continues to grow among friends and critics of higher education. My own enthusiasm for the endless standardized testing...

Since at least the early 20th century, it has been fashionable to attack college athletics as distorting the priorities of...

At one time, we imagined that students came to the university to learn, that they had an obligation to engage...

It is rankings time again, as everyone interested in colleges and universities know. This annual celebration gives everyone something. It...