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The American academy is in crisis, and the symptoms are clear to anyone with eyes to see: relentlessly rising costs, administrative bloat, and a declining 18- to 24-year-old cohort of potential tuition-paying students who are increasingly reluctant to take on a crushing load of debt. Add to that the increasingly aggressive assaults, emanating from within the academy, on core institutional values like freedom of inquiry and expression, and you have a fulminating crisis.

TSU has received national awards for community service and engagement, but the state has underfunded the university for decades. This needs to stop.

Courtesy K-State Research & Extension By RON WILSONHuck Boyd National Institute for Rural Development The pilot has come in for a landing. In this case, the pilot is the famous aviator Amelia Earhart (or her replica in the form of a bronze statue), and her landing place isn't an airport — it's the nation's capitol. Amelia Earhart was recently honored by the State of Kansas by having her statue placed in Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol building. Statuary Hall is that area of the capitol that displays statues depicting people representing all 50 states. Each state is auth...

When asked about her current fight with the Bellefonte Area School District, Penn State Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Studies Kathryn Pletcher’s response was, “You got a couple of hours?”

Creative Commons // Wikimedia Commons Public colleges and universities can come with far less sticker shock than their private sector counterparts, but that isn't to say they offer a substandard education or even diminished cachet. Coverage of the "Va...