Free Speech Under Fire at Colleges and Universities
Churchill called courage the “first” of the virtues. In the garden of good and evil, it is the one virtue...
Group of Mizzou Graduate Students Attempting to Unionize
A troubled Mizzou faces another challenge this week; a group of graduate students voted to unionize all of the grad...
State Senate Votes to Reward A Smaller Mizzou With Millions of Extra Dollars
Despite months of unrest and national embarrassment at the University of Missouri-Columbia, it seems the folks in the Missouri Senate...
Is Missouri’s A-Plus Program a Model for the Nation?
The bar for being an exemplary government program must be pretty low these days. Last week at a meeting in...
Reaping the Whirlwind in Columbia
The Book of Hosea cautions us, “They that sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind.” Student protests on The University...
Is It Better for the School Week To Be Shorter?
In Stockton, Missouri, this week, the board of education voted 5-2 to keep for the 2016–17 school year the four-day...
After Melissa Click, Higher Ed Reforms Must Stay on Course
News broke late last week that embattled Mizzou professor Melissa Click has been fired from her job by the state's Board...
State of the State Address Strikes Happy Notes, But Forgets Opportunities Lost
Last week Missouri Governor Jay Nixon delivered his eighth and final State of the State address to the Missouri legislature. You...
Greater Transparency Would Be Good for Mizzou
Tensions are still simmering following this fall’s student (and faculty) protests at the University of Missouri. Without venturing into the...
KMOX Interview on Mizzou’s Problems
Earlier today I had the chance to speak with Mark Reardon on KMOX about my Mizzou commentary, published over at...
University of Chicago: An Example for Mizzou on Free Speech
Over the past few weeks, the University of Missouri has been turned upside down by protests that, so far, have...
Million Student March Proposes Free College and Debt Forgiveness
Nearly one in five students who attend community college in Missouri will default on their student loans within three years,...
Will Building the Convention Hotel Create Jobs?
Proponents of a new $311 million hotel claim that the project will create construction jobs. At a recent hearing...
I Was a Good Teacher. I Could Have Been Better
For four years I was an elementary school teacher in southwest Missouri. Not to toot my own horn, but I...
Riverfront Stadium Unlikely to Increase Construction Jobs in Saint Louis
This week, members of the Saint Louis City Board of Alderman announced that they support a public vote on the...
Default Rates among Missouri Colleges and Universities
The table below (data from the U.S. Department of Education) displays default rates for Missouri colleges and universities over a...
Oops! Columbia Taxing District Likely To Be Decided by One Voter
As my colleagues David Stokes, Michael Rathbone, and Joe Miller have chronicled for years, community improvement districts (CIDs)—a type of...
IRS Obamacare Ruling Buffets Some Missouri Graduate Students
College towns are typically bastions of liberalism, and Missouri’s uber-college town of Columbia is no exception. Columbia Tribune reporter Rudi Keller even...
Charter Schools Are Not the Enemy
As first appearing in Education News: We all love to have enemies; not real enemies, just the kind that make...
No, Transparency Benefits the Academy
Mizzou Professor of Spanish Literature Michael Ugarte recently wrote an op-ed published in the Columbia Daily Tribune where he voiced...
