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Professors still believe that the woes that afflict higher education can be solved through federal intervention.

Like colleges and universities of old, it its own way, Duke is trying to act “in loco parentis” with an emphasis on the loco part.

On Monday, November 29, 2010, the Illinois Supreme Court decided not to hear Professor Thomas Klocek’s appeal, bringing an end to his five-year suit against DePaul University for destroying his reputation.

A national debate is growing over the importance of a college degree, and how much it helps graduates to live a better life.

At a time when most people pick out pine trees, many English professors make plans to travel to the annual convention of the Modern Language Association.

With remedial education becoming more of a trend on college campuses every year and employers complaining that new hires lack basic skills, public schools are naturally pursuing grants that will prepare students for environmental activism.

Taxpayers may not have much reason to feel bailed out and stimulated but university officials do.

In an age of limits, colleges and universities are expanding, with the aid of taxpayers with increasingly limited resources.

A key dividing line between those within the Ivory Tower and those without might be on the issue of taxes: Academics like them while the rest of us clearly don’t.

The Associated Press might actually be onto something in its education coverage.

“The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.”—Fidel Castro, September 8, 2010, interview in The Atlantic

A seminal trend may be occurring in media coverage of education, at least at the K-12 level: The press is starting to notice where the problem comes from.