Nothing that the Obama administration has discussed thus far has remotely the kind of transformative possibilities or the potential for total disaster of their service learning plan.
Meredith Lopez | Posted 04.23.2009 | Living
Call me crazy, but when it comes to preschool, my requirements seem pathetically low. I want the Princeling to learn his ABC's and 123's, some basic social skills.
Tom McCaffrey | Posted 04.16.2009 | Comedy
Spring Break '09 showed the lowest amount of drunken women taking off their tops for video cameras ever.
Michael Roth | Posted 04.10.2009 | Politics
While we in the U.S. debate the merits of investing in education as part of a short-term stimulus package, it is instructive to see how much value Asian students attribute to an American education.
Will Bunch | Posted 03.31.2009 | Politics
It's true -- Barack Obama cannot cure cancer. By as president, he has the power to do something else that's almost as amazing: To help America to dream big again.
Wall Street Journal | ROBERT TOMSHO | Posted 03.26.2009 | Business
College presidents aren't the only ones taking home big paychecks on some campuses. Many of the highest paid college officials are athletic coaches an...
Lester Sloan | Posted 03.09.2009 | Politics
In several states across the US, our children perform well below the average of many countries that we consider under-developed.
Greg Lukianoff | Posted 03.08.2009 | Media
Many MSU decision-makers don't have a clear idea of the distinction between the use of university or departmental listservs and the general use of university e-mail accounts.
Jim Jaffe | Posted 03.08.2009 | Business
A political question of the moment is whether taxpayers concerned about subsidizing bloated salaries on Wall Street will feel an equal discomfort about playing a similar role in medicine and higher education.
Nancy Snow | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics
President Obama, like Oprah, has enormous powers of persuasion. He, like Ms. Winfrey, enjoys a position of high credibility. Credibility is in the eyes of the beholder.
Jason Rosenbaum | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics
Conservatives will be pushing for increased tax cuts for business and the rich, including tax cuts that benefit multi-national companies with large foreign holdings.
Joanne Rendell | Posted 03.06.2009 | Style
Grisham is just the latest in a line of authors who've written university stories featuring sex scandals -- or, at the very least, stories of sexually inappropriate relations on campus.
Bill Allen | Posted 03.05.2009 | Business
The "Creation Science Museum" attracted over 500,00 visitors in a bit more than a year. Talk about pent-up demand and a golden opportunity staring me right in the face!
H. Candace Gorman | Posted 03.03.2009 | Living
My client, Mr. Al-Ghizzawi, told me during one of our first visits about a flower that was outside his cage at Guantanamo, just sticking out of the desert terrain, by itself.
Julia Plevin | Posted 02.28.2009 | Style
I fear for my generation because there does not seem to be much of a difference between dating and marriage. Dating is a desert or a deluge. There is no such thing as casual dating.
Kat Cohen | Posted 02.27.2009 | Living
There is no real "top 50 colleges": this zero-sum game of rankings renders meaningless. Students must examine a college's philosophy, environment, and academic offerings themselves.
Julian L. Alssid and Davis Jenkins | Posted 02.13.2009 | Business
Unless the stimulus can be leveraged to revitalize our education and workforce systems, the downturn will likely accelerate the recent trend in which the only good jobs go to those who have training beyond high school.
Gina Nahai | Posted 02.06.2009 | Business
It's a moral outrage that colleges and universities around the United States have devoted their energies to enlarging their endowments at the expense of the education and well being of their students.
Karin Kloosterman | Posted 02.02.2009 | World
There are 6 sets of parents in America right now who might be wishing that their kids weren't college newspaper editors.
Wendy Block | Posted 01.22.2009 | Style
This year, my normally fruitless efforts to find good fruitcake finally paid off with a sturdy confection whose cherry/pecan/cake ratio is nearly perfect.
Brian Farkas | Posted 01.18.2009 | Politics
Writing separate but nearly identical letters to their respective communities, countless college presidents across the county have recently admitted: "We're out of money."
Carey Polis | Posted 01.13.2009 | Living
I know very few people who are truly happy with their post-college lives. But, as much as I want to conveniently use the term "quarterlife crisis," it's not what's going on.
Anya Kamenetz | Posted 01.04.2009 | Living
If one year at a public university costs more than half of the income of the poorest fifth of the population, that's no meritocracy.
Huffington Post | Posted 01.03.2009 | Business
Harvard recently reported that the value of its endowment dropped $8 billion between the end of June and October of this year. At the same time, a rec...
Huffington Post | Posted 01.03.2009 | Business
Harvard recently reported that the value of its endowment has dropped $8 billion between the end of June through October of this year. This news is es...
Howard Schweber | Posted 04.24.2009 | Politics