One of the most moving and graphic tales of adjunct life appeared in today's Inside Higher Ed. By graphic I mean a mixture of descripti...

The New York Times has had good coverage of problems in the student loan industry - to put it politely. They have a good new piece on how ...

In a speech last week, University of Missouri President Gary Forsee cited some all-too-familiar stats about the decline of public funding f...

Harvard alum Carroll Bogert has an excellent op-ed in the New York Times about what to do with Harvard's big endowment besides make it ...

Some of the best recent defenses of public higher education have come from the business press, in the form of attacks on the huge and growin...

About a month ago I went to Sacramento with a group of University of California faculty to try to offer legislators a faculty perspective on...

Here's a good example of a state governor - Ohio's - facing down a budget deficit and maintaining state funding for higher ed next ...

Who is our evil twin here in academia? The media? They too are in the business of putting together and distributing information, so they a...

The New York Times had a good piece about states cooking their graduation books. See the sample stats at left. California, self-described...

Mark Yudof has been nominated to move from being the head of the University of Texas system to the presidency of the University of Californ...

I nside Higher Ed has a good overview of the Bush II Presidential Library controversy . The facility at Southern Methodist will have three...

The Council for Aid to Education has released its figures for higher education philanthropy in 2007. Overall donations were up 6.3 percent...

Student loans produced a lot of stories about conflicts of interest last year, and some mild clean-up activity. One pattern there was kickb...

The Times of London - of all papers - had a good piece by Alexi Mostrous on Martin Amis's 80,000 pounds a year from the U of Manchest...

Inside Higher Ed has a report on university endowment growth last year. If you follow this topic the data won't surprise you. The ric...