A Letter to My Granddaughter: Bossy Can Be Beautiful

A Letter to My Granddaughter: Bossy Can Be Beautiful

Dear Grace, I know life is awfully hectic for a busy middle school girl like you. One day soon, you will be graduating from high school, and then college. Then off to pursue a career, travel, perhaps a family, who knows? You are young, and your whole life is ahead of...
Our Powers Combined

Our Powers Combined

The Council of Independent Colleges and the Teagle Foundation, which supports undergraduate education in arts and sciences, are among some of the organizations pushing for a liberal arts approach to online or hybrid education through recent initiatives that invite...

Spelman President Beverly Tatum Wins a Carnegie Corporation Award

Spelman College, a historically black liberal arts college for women, celebrates with President Beverly Tatum, who received one of four 2013 Academic Leadership Awards from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Established in 2005, the award honors university...

Mount Holyoke President Picked for NCAA Division III Board

In college athletics, Division I teams garner much of the attention, money and scandal associated with the NCAA. That leads to a spillover into the governance of smaller programs in Divisions II and III. That’s according to Mount Holyoke College President Lynn...

Over-Reaching on Undermatching

“Undermatching” is the latest buzzword to afflict higher education, a theory that “high achieving low income” students should choose only elite or “competitive” colleges and universities instead of the often-local institutions that serve...
How to Afford a College Education for Your Daughter

How to Afford a College Education for Your Daughter

If you’re a parent with a college-bound daughter, I know you’re thinking about the cost of her education. On one hand, you’re so proud of her; on the other, you’re wondering what kind of education you can really afford. You know she deserves a...

The Sum of All Salaries

My first job out of law school paid $15,000, pretty grim even by 1977 standards. That modest sum paid for a roach-infested apartment in Mt. Rainer, a used Duster with rust holes in the floor, and $90 a month in student loan payments that really stressed me out. Sallie...