Nearly a decade after the Great Recession, Florida may finally restore one of its main programs that aids students headed to college. The state Legislature late Monday approved an overhaul of the state’s higher education system that is intended to lift schools in the Sunshine State into the ranks of elite counterparts. A key part […]
The business of big-time college sports is a uniquely American nonsense. Nowhere else are universities expected to entertain the public in such a fashion. There are problems. A school could solve them, the humorist Max Shulman once wrote, by hiring the Green Bay Packers as “artists in residence.” They wouldn’t have to pretend to be […]
“At the University of Wisconsin a significant number of high profile former athletes have seen their lives descend in a spiral of poverty, drugs, and repeated police contacts. After making millions for the athletic department, the coaches and athletic directors, they have become dispensable commodities. Unskilled, uneducated and unwanted. I am not saying that these […]
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