Someone Come To the Rescue Of College, Please

How Do We Gear Up Higher Ed For Tomorrow?

Can the next U.S. president make public universities more affordable–and can the federal government do anything to support crucial research that takes place in these institutions?

Yes, said UCLA Chancellor Gene Block, University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman, and Carnegie Corporation President Vartan Gregorian, in a panel co-presented by UCLA at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

David Leonhardt, Washington Bureau Chief of The New York Times and the program’s moderator, opened the conversation by citing Kanye West’s album The College Dropout–which suggests that dropping out of college might be …

September 19, 2012

College As We’ve Known It Will Soon Die (And Should)

The Federal Government Should Adapt the Principles of 150 Years Ago To a New Age

by Kevin Carey | September 18, 2012

To understand how public universities reached their present state of decline and near-crisis, you might look back a century and a half to July of 1862, when Abraham Lincoln signed …

Private College Stoked, Public College Broke

Can Our Public Universities Still Compete With Rich Private Ones?

September 17, 2012

We’ve long been proud of our great public universities in the United States. Historically, they’ve been both superb and inexpensive. The University of California system has long represented a pinnacle …

I’m a College President. Go Ahead: Be Jealous

But Let Me Set the Record Straight On a Few Things

by Harold R. Wilde | March 28, 2012

For the past 21 years, I’ve been the president of a small 150-year-old private college of 3000 students. My wife and I live in the middle of the North Central …

Middle-Class Schools at the Big Dance

San Diego State and Long Beach State May Be Underdogs in NCAAs, But They’re Big Winners for California

by Daniel Weintraub | March 14, 2012

Like parents with more than one child, Californians say they love all of their higher education systems equally. But everyone knows that the University of California is really the favorite, …

Ivory Tower No More

Are Universities More Engaged With Their Cities Now?

January 12, 2012

Throughout the 20th century, Eastman Kodak–whose bankruptcy has been in the news recently–was the largest employer in the city of Rochester. But 70 years after George Eastman’s death, another institution …

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