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  • Students Find Beauty and Purpose Through This New Program

    Students Find Beauty and Purpose Through This New Program

    A Princeton Theological Seminary professor and her husband are offering students an alternative to isolation and spiritual emptiness.

    For Dr. Margarita Mooney Clayon, the crisis of modernity is the death of the sacred. Rationalism, materialism, and consumerism are replacing the transcendent. Self-expression is producing abstraction. Modernity has left…

  • McMahon Makes Colleges Think

    McMahon Makes Colleges Think

    Higher education can embrace reform now or face a much harsher reckoning later.

    The Department of Education (ED) is trying a new tactic to encourage colleges and universities to reform.

  • Jason Arday and the Dukes and Dauphins of DEI

    Jason Arday and the Dukes and Dauphins of DEI

    How Cambridge fell for an academic fabulist.

    The Music Man, The Sting, Catch Me If You Can: movies and theater have a rich tradition of stories about imposters who manage to fool a lot of people.

  • College Sports Are Unsustainable

    College Sports Are Unsustainable

    The GAO’s latest report shows that even Division I athletics are becoming an increasingly expensive proposition for universities.

    America’s colleges and universities are facing severe financial pressures, leading to staff layoffs and reduced real compensation—achieved by keeping salary increases below inflation—for many employees, even at wealthy, elite private…

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