The tax-exempt status of universities is once again coming under fire, this time in the cash-poor District of Columbia. Saddled with a multi-million-dollar budget deficit, district officials want...
Boston university's John R. Silber once again out-earned all other presidents in a Chronicle survey of 477 private colleges -- even without the $300,000 bonus that had made him the best-paid...
The Alabama Association of School Boards wants $165-million of the state's education budget that has gone to private colleges, charities, and various programs to be redirected to the public school...
What are the odds on the Republican-controlled Congress's restoring collective-bargaining rights to professors at private colleges? Not good, but faculty unions figure it can't hurt to ask.
Go to today's entry first. Otherwise, start here, and you'll get things in the order that I wrote them in -- except the links to other docs which are filled in as my diary web fills in. Believe me, there is rhyme to this. Put it this way with a cliche: I dance to a different saxophone.