Robert Shireman

Here’s what to expect from Linda McMahon in the next 90 days.

If the education secretary knowingly funnels federal grants and loans to for-profit colleges in defiance of the law, she could face fines or even jail.

Many of the rules burdening colleges were created to address the abuses resulting from for-profit colleges’ participation in federal financial-aid programs.

The public university is giving a long list of rights and privileges to its new partner, a firm answerable to Wall Street investors.

One reader had hoped that the new book would be a road map for realizing for-profit education’s possibilities. Now he’s wondering whether we can even get there from here.

Before inviting the Scarecrow to join her on her long trip through Oz to the Emerald City, Dorothy doesn’t know if the journey would be worth his while. She asks him, “Well, what would you do with a brain if you had one?” “I could think of things I never thunk before, and then I’d sit and think…

Now that the Supreme Court has upheld the use of affirmative action in college admissions, many observers are calling the ruling a victory for diversity. But issues concerning how to sustain and encourage diversity are far from settled on most campuses across America. Colleges still have to grapple…