THE term ‘university’ has a definite meaning on the Continent and a fairly definite meaning in Great Britain; but in America no copyright — legal or traditional — protects its use. A college, though ...

The collegiate world has been buzzing with discussion recently over the definition of a “modern university.” Last week, a few educators took to the opinion section of The Guardian to debate what ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the political economics of higher education (and more). An NCAA football player, a student intern, a university ...

Employment rates for college graduates are dismal. Aggregate student debt is staggering. But university administrative salaries are soaring. The campus climate of tolerance has utterly disappeared.

But as we write in our book, “The Bright Ages,” faculty and students uniting against outside political interference is baked into the core of the modern university - in fact, it’s quite literally why ...

Decades of government policy have reduced the social sciences and humanities to squatters in the modern university. Research into the great questions now only happens despite university structures.

Today, American institutions dominate nearly every major ranking of global universities. Yet in historical terms, the U.S.'s preeminence is relatively new, and there is no reason to assume that U.S.

The history of Modern Greek at Harvard University began in 1828, just a few years after the Greek War of Independence started.