Don’t Overlook the Mayor
In a city like Appleton, Wis., knowing the mayor means you can get more done, even if you don’t always agree.
The Point of an Endowment
One professor says trustees should shift policies to use large endowments to help their universities in economic crises.
Town and Gown, Tied Together
One thing the pandemic is making clear is just how porous the borders are between town and gown.
Rome is Burning. Let’s Bash Harvard?
The Education Department is still determining whether the money that wealthy universities are giving up can even be redistributed to other colleges.
What Will $6 Billion Accomplish?
A lot of that is left up to the colleges so, from a broad, national perspective, those questions of impact could be hard to measure.
What’s Clearer Now
Weeks into our global health crisis, here’s how our perspective has changed. Plus, where relief money is headed. And what’s missing in the land-grant college origin story.
On the Other Side
Colleges will have to look ahead to how the pandemic will affect future resources and spending.
When A Crisis Exposes Our Digital Divide
As the spread of coronavirus continues to close campuses, leaders worry about how differences in internet access and housing and food insecurity will impact students as changes continue.
Who Deserves Free College?
Twenty-one states have some type of free-college program, and polls show a strong majority favors free tuition at public colleges.
Should Public Colleges Play the Merit-Aid Game?
Public flagships and regional state colleges are devoting part of their institutional aid to non-needy students.
