Category: University Governance
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Thoughts on Secretary McMahon’s New Letter to Universities
Categories: University GovernanceBy Jenna Silber StoreyAugust 3, 2026 This morning, Secretary McMahon issued a letter to university presidents and board chairs, asking them to explain how their institutions are addressing or will address seven key issues that concern many Americans. I’ve played a part in some of the conversations leading up to this document, and particularly in…
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Robert P. George on Institutional Neutrality, Campus Discourse and Fruitful Disagreement
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How a Few Foundations Shape American Higher Education
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Introducing SOURCE
Categories: University Governancea New Tool to Track Funding from Private Foundations to American Higher Ed By Tao TanJune 24, 2026 The debate about private money in higher education is loud, emotion-laden, and not typically backed by sufficient evidence. Up to this point, access to the evidence has been challenging, since it sits in millions of separate tax…
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The University Problem
By Roger Pielke Jr.April 13, 2026 Originally posted as a report on The Honest Broker Abstract Public confidence in American higher education has rebounded modestly in 2025 — the first measured increase in a decade — but the numbers remain far below where they stood when Gallup began tracking them in 2015, and the underlying…
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Brain Trust?
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Yale Committee Offers an Encouragingly Realistic Report About the State of Higher Education
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How to Influence a University Without Anyone Noticing
Categories: University GovernanceBy Tao TanMarch 2, 2026 The Mellon Foundation has changed the shape of the humanities and social sciences, as three recent pieces have powerfully shown. Tyler Austin Harper argued in The Atlantic that Mellon’s funding concentration leaves ambitious humanities scholars with little practical alternative to aligning their work with the foundation’s priorities. John D. Sailer…