My dad never went to college. He graduated from high school in 1930 when unemployment rates were on the way to 15% and eventually reached...

My dad never went to college. He graduated from high school in 1930 when unemployment rates were on the way to 15% and eventually reached...

(This piece originally appeared in the Lewiston, Idaho Tribune.) It is hardly news that in the space of less than a week 28 hard right...

(This piece originally appeared in the Lewiston, Idaho Tribune.) It is hardly news that in the space of less than a week 28 hard right...

My weekly column from the Lewiston (Idaho) Tribune. On an out of the way country road a few miles outside of Oxford, Mississippi you’ll...

My weekly column from the Lewiston (Idaho) Tribune. On an out of the way country road a few miles outside of Oxford, Mississippi you’ll...

I begin from the premise that activism on college campuses is a good thing. Any society should want engaged, involved, opinionated,...

I begin from the premise that activism on college campuses is a good thing. Any society should want engaged, involved, opinionated,...

In other words – short. Very short. For a few moments earlier this fall we were consumed by the news of a humanitarian crisis and...

I did not realize until recently, while researching more deeply O’Connor’s history-making 1981 appointment as the first woman nominated...

University of Idaho President Duane Nellis apparently will depart shortly for Texas Tech University in Lubbock; a 30,000 student, major...

Taylor Branch is a serious historian, a man who has made his considerable reputation as perhaps the most important historian of the civil...

The Chronicle of Higher Education is out with fascinating new research about the educational attainment of all of the country’s 7,000...

The United States has been engaged over the last 20 years or so in a systematic disinvestment in higher education. It may be the least...

Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor has been speaking out and writing about the inherent problems associated with...