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When 11 percent of Yale’s senior class, 10 percent of Georgetown’s and 9 percent of Harvard’s head off to teach at some of America’s most impoverished inner city schools for the next couple of years, something’s going on.

Yet another widely held perception in academia is the idea that somehow universities contribute to economic growth although the exact cause and effect is hard to pin down.

Of all the myths that the higher education establishment has perpetuated, perhaps none is more pervasive, or contributes as much to the preservation of the status quo, as the notion that the blame for tuition hikes lay somewhere other than the central offices of universities

From inside academia, leading officials are starting to admit that government aid to education is increasingly going to the well-off.

Believe it or not, there is a trio of trends in higher education that both left- and right-wing critics of academe are alarmed by.

The idea that the only thing standing between at-risk youth and a college education is a mere several thousand dollars apiece is a nostrum repeated ad nauseum by politicians and professors alike. As notions go, it may have considerably less weight to it than the average cosmetic counter notion.

Ann Coulter didn’t only tackle widows in her new book, she argued against failing public education.

College or competition?

It’s official. We are a nation of illiterates, with college degrees, the U. S. Commission on the fuutre of higher education found at their recent meeting, but looked everywhere but at colleges and universities themselves to find the reason, much like most boards of trustees.

Do universities really need more money or are they simply flushing too much down the drain?

Are teachers’ unions necessary or are they inhibiting school improvement?

A new study that compares funding of Colorado and North Carolina state university systems shows that more money isn’t always the best thing.