Today's colleges and universities are little more than credentialing factories.

A brief outline of the university as it might be, and has been at times before.

Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry has compiled a list (warning: NSFW language) of the functions of higher education, ranging from promotion of cultural literacy to provision opportunities…

Inside Higher Education and Gallup have released a poll of attitudes toward higher education among parents with school-age children. The main finding is that…

Tom Friedman is an easy target for criticism. It’s just too easy to find something to mock in his signature blend of boyish…

Over the last several years, a growing number of economists have concluded that the economic conditions of American higher education resemble a speculative bubble.…