As we all think--with increasing urgency--about how to best stimulate growth and ramp up employment for the U.S. economy, we might just be missing a huge opportunity that is staring us in the face. Bill Marriott Jr., Chairman and CEO of Marriott International, made the point recently and...

In the wake of the brutal murder of University of Virginia student Yeardley Love, now is the time to ask ourselves how such tragedies can be prevented.

The obvious first step is to make sure that universities know when one of their students has a prior history and record of...