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EC “identified nine countries that do not typically charge any tuition fees for students from within the EU – Austria,…

An actual title—Bob Meister, Professor of Political and Social Thought in the Department of the History of Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz

International Students Increasingly ask: Is it safe to study in the U. S.?–The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 3, 2013

“Our universities are employing as many administrators as full-time faculty.”—John McNay, president, Ohio Conference of the American Association of University Professors, before the Ohio House Finance Subcommittee on Higher Education.

George Washington University School of Business Hosts 3rd Annual “Business Gives Back” on April 20. What did they take?

“The lesson of the Left’s sustained commitment to ‘social justice’ is that sustained commitment to a message, no matter how…

St. John’s University President “describes himself as a ‘Brooklyn guy,’ suggesting a naivete about the high-rolling lives of Saudi princes…

“The central but by no means sole figure in this scandal is Jacob J. Lew, the Obama administration’s new Treasury secretary, who worked at N.Y.U. in the early 2000s for a salary that eventually reached $900,000, larger even than Dr. Sexton’s at the time.”—NYU Sociologist Jeff Goodwin

“Each student we lose seriously impacts our budget.”— F. Javier Cevallos, President, Kutztown University

“When the College of Arts and Sciences offers its new Sexuality and Queer Studies minor in the fall semester of 2013, it will be at the vanguard of an academic discipline.”— Lauren Ober, on American University’s new course offering.

“I will continue to write that the Republican Party should give up on those tactics that focus on voter suppression and find ways to appeal to black and brown voters instead.” Atlanta-Journal Constitution columnist Cynthia Tucker at Harvard last year, ignoring the suppression of military ballots by the Obama Administration, many of them to “black and brown voters.”

“In higher education the social values of social cohesion and progress, social welfare and service, the institutional values of economy…