Higher Education Archives

Students walk through the campus of Yale University on September 27th, 2018, in New Haven, Connecticut.

Education

To Understand the High Cost of Colleges, Think of Them as Investment Banks

A growing endowment generates wealth. A small part of that wealth is invested to bolster an administration tasked with generating prestige, and, as students rush to take out federal loans, raising tuition and fees.

James McWilliams

Education

The Secret Betrayal That Sealed Nike’s Special Influence Over the University of Oregon

University of Oregon President Dave Frohnmayer needed money to save his school. Alum and Nike chief executive Phil Knight was happy to help. But after Frohnmayer made a key mistake, Knight exacted a brutal punishment.

Joshua Hunt

The Cecil H. Green Library on the Stanford University campus in Stanford, California.

Education

Of Course Public Confidence in Higher Education Is Down

As Americans' faith in higher education reacts to rising costs, mounting debts, and the growing sense that preparation for the workforce need not take a four-year degree, the post-World War II ambitions of higher education may prove to be a noble failure.

James McWilliams

The Francisco J. Ayala Science Library, which has since been renamed the Science Library.

After Facing Criticism, a Top Scientific Journal Says: No More ‘But Look What Good He’s Done’

The letters-to-the-editor section of Science, one of the world's top scientific journals, is taking a new stance on what arguments it will accept about those accused of sexual harassment.

Francie Diep

Education

What Good Is an Academic Hoax in the Age of Post-Truth?

To relegate academic projects that seek to untangle the complexities of human systems to the realm of grievances is a farce—one that misses the point of the academic project in the first place.

Jared Keller