Tag: higher education

Once the world’s best, U.S. higher education staggers, with no easy fixes.

"Charles Koch is doubling down on the multi-million dollar money dumps that buy him real control over professors."

We look at one of the consequences of this crisis: the growing threat to academic freedom with academic and author Henry Reichman.

The recent college cheating scandal surprises no one. The super-rich have long relied on “legacy admissions” to get them into their elite college of choice.

Prosecutors have charged 33 parents, including Hollywood stars Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin.

In January, Hampshire College President Miriam Nelson announced the board of trustees and senior administrators would seek to merge the school with a “strategic partner.”

The first-in-the-nation scholarship program would serve about 1.5 million full-time students. But there are downsides.

This corrupt higher education "industry" ought to be put out of business.

Public colleges have long been expected to benefit from academic research. But that all changed in 1980 with the Bayh-Dole Act. Now universities are more deeply entrenched in the capitalist world—a true degradation of higher education.

Scott Walker claims he wants to be America's next president. But with a track record of slashing funding for higher education, busting unions and going after welfare recipients, is this what America really needs?