Outside the Beltway

Harvard has announced the discovery of what one official calls an “unprecedented” cheating scandal.

A true pioneer passed away today.

Andrew Sullivan believes Sally Ride “had a chance to expand people’s horizons and young lesbians’ hope and self-esteem, and she chose not to.”

Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels will become president of Purdue University upon completion of his term in January. The faculty is apprehensive because Daniels has not had an academic career.

Nicholas Katzenbach, a central figure in the civil rights fights of the 1960s, has died.

A study of religiosity and young adults found that those who attend college are actually less likely to experience religious decline than those who do not attend college.

Rick Santorum is Michele Bachmann level crazy. Yet he’s arguably the Republican frontrunner right now.

College football coaching salaries jumped 35 percent last year and 55 percent in the last six.

How far should the press go in challenging assertions by politicians?

Trying to construct Gingrich’s c.v.

A consultant for would-be academics, says she wouldn’t have a job if professors would do theirs.

Ezra Klein argues that there aren’t many jobs for which Hill experience is an asset.

Contrary to myth, the college classroom is a rapidly evolving place.

Austan Goolsbee is resigning as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors to return to the University of Chicago.

An increasing number of bright observers are questioning the notion that everyone needs to go to college.

The experiences of two well-known academics denied tenure at Chicago provide some clues.

The fight over Federal funding for Planned Parenthood seems to be about much more than whether taxpayer dollars should be going to Planned Parenthood.

Yet another study finds conservatives wildly underrepresented in higher education.

We’re producing more PhDs and JDs than there are full time openings for professors and lawyers.

The institutions charged with solving our Information Age social problems are stuck in the Industrial Age.

Does that degree you get at the end of your four years of college really mean anything anymore, and is it worth the money you paid for it?

Iowa Republicans are targeting professor sabbaticals, thus demonstrating that they understand neither higher ed nor economics.

The folks who gave us “So You Want to be a Lawyer?” follows up with “So You Want to Get a PhD in the Humanities?”

Charles Murray argues that the Tea Party is right to complain about out-of-touch elites.

There’s a trend toward using metrics to identify ways to stem the skyrocketing cost of higher education. The likeliest result is to devalue the “education” component.

More on Greg Mankiw’s thought experiment on taxes and incentives to work.

A third of the Forbes 50 were born billionaires. Does that mean the game is fixed?

For-profit universities are defrauding their students. Indeed, it’s their business model.

Rural whites are outperformed by Jews and Asians and passed over by blacks and Hispanics in the name of “diversity” by elite universities.

Most academic journal articles are unreadable dreck. So, why are we demanding that more of them be produced?

The Fox News headline “University of Illinois Instructor Fired Over Catholic Beliefs” is grossly misleading.

LSU is facing some potential deep cuts in its budget.

Laura Sjoberg informs us that she is working to form a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered, Queer, and Allies Caucus of the International Studies Association .