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By Neal McCluskey When I began working at the Cato Institute many moons ago, my focus was elementary and secondary education. But early on I came across a report titled “The College Cost Crisis,” from the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce. The authors seemed exasperated that federal student aid never caught up […]

The Ohio State University, state university system of Ohio, U.S., consisting of a main campus in Columbus and branches in Lima, Mansfield, Marion, Newark, and the Agricultural Technical Institute in Wooster. The institute and the branches in Mansfield and Newark are primarily two-year colleges. The

The legacy of Matthew Gaines, who was born into the bonds of slavery and went on to serve in the Texas Legislature during Reconstruction, was memorialized Friday in the heart of the university campus he helped establish.A statue of the former state s

We all knew that last month's football game between the University of Arkansas Razorbacks and the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff Golden Lions at Little Rock's War Memorial Stadium wouldn't be close. The Razorbacks play in the powerful Southeastern Conference of NCAA's Football Bowl Subdivision. The Golden Lions are a struggling team from the Football Championship Subdivision.

The schools president wrote in a recent column that addressing Francis Amasa Walker’s legacy is an essential step in the school’s commitment to its Native community

As the third president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Francis Amasa Walker helped usher the school into national prominence in the late 1800s.

West Virginia University, and by extension, the Daily Athenaeum exist because of Indigenous lands. This land was purchased by the U.S. government over a century ago through violence-backed treaties and

Both progress and injustice define the complicated history of official policy toward American Indians.

Disease, war, lawsuits and treaties were all part of the process through which native...

Disease, war, lawsuits and treaties were all part of the process through which native...