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The narrowing of intellectual life on campus is no passing trend; it has become a defining feature of American higher education. Viewpoint diversity among professors and students alike is growing scar ...

In theory, opening doors for high-achieving, low-income students - or, as we call them, "HALO" kids - should be a national obsession. Yet in practice, such students' acad ...

On Monday night, UC Berkeley was the stage of a sadly familiar scene, with police struggling to contain fires, vandalism, and assaults outside the final stop of Turning Point USA's campus tour.

The federal Pell Grant program is the cornerstone of college aid for low-income undergraduates, providing roughly $39 billion in fiscal year 2025 to help students pay for college. Those dollars go alm ...

Higher education provides more stories that deserve public attention than Aesop had fables. But like Aesop's accounts of loquacious animals, the incidents on campus often have a pungent mo ...

After Charlie Kirk's assassination, flags flew at half-mast, Kirk received a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom---and everyone moved on. I was reminded ...

One of the greatest weeks of my life was the week David McCullough came to teach a one-credit course at Hillsdale College in 2006. McCullough, the great writer and teacher of history, held forth on th ...

Government involvement in American higher education has been an abject and costly failure. Out-of-control taxpayer-funded subsidies have resulted in higher--not lower--tuition bills for stud ...

Higher education's latest moral compact shows how far it has drifted from real inquiry. Earlier this fall, the president of Sarah Lawrence College shared that the school had signed the Higher Educatio ...

Last year's Paris Summer Olympics put a spotlight on the impact of college sports in America. Current and former NCAA athletes earned over 300 medals, and about a third came from our Atlantic Co ...