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Observers across the political spectrum have identified a real problem in American higher education: too many campuses have drifted from genuine inquiry toward ideological performance and political en ...

As the class of 2029 settled into dorm life this past August, the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis offered a startling data point: from 2019 to 2025, the jobless rate for recent U.S. college graduate ...

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is now in the spotlight. Recent reporting has documented how the nation's largest humanities funder has spent years channeling billions into academic projects exp ...

The Chicago Teachers Union spent years insisting it was financially transparent. The sudden release in January of previously hidden audits tells a different story -- one that demands accountabili ...

Each year, roughly two million Americans borrow sums they may never repay to attend programs that a federal accrediting system has solemnly declared "high quality." But while some will ear ...

A few weeks ago, I was reading about space with my daughter. Like many kids, she's at that age where curiosity comes easily - where the world still feels open and full of possibility. Space, esp ...

A parent at a girls' school recently described his daughter to me. A serious athlete, the girl had just come home from a tough loss - a game against a team they had already beaten earlier ...

Slowly, hesitantly, I've let the thought creep into my consciousness: what if AI is better than me at my job? I don't think I'm about to lose my job (I'm a tenured professor, a ...

The second week of March is Civic Learning Week. It's an annual observance marked by civics advocates with webinars, social media campaigns, and a big conference known as the National Forum, org ...

In January, the Department of Education (ED) put out a new tool that tracks foreign financing of American higher education. For the first time, the American public has an unfiltered glimpse into the t ...