Germany Changes Student Financial Aid

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April, 2015 Berlin -- The Federal Republic of Germany is making a change in the way it pays for need-based student financial aid. In the ...

Borrower Defense Options

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April, 2015 Washington -- Several state attorneys general have demanded that the U.S. Secretary of Education cancel the debts of student...

R and R for Higher Education

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April, 2015 Washington -- Those of us who find fault with the current model of higher education finance – above all, too much reliance on...

Water Conservation

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April, 2015 Lincoln -- California has recently imposed new, mandatory water conservation restrictions. Colorado has passed legislation pr...

Faculties, Colleges, and Research Ethics

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April, 2015 Lincoln -- Two recent happenings in higher education may seem disparate but should be considered together. One is a seminar l...

Unnecessary Divisiveness

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March, 2015 Lincoln -- There's enough divisiveness in the world as it is, so why acquiesce, without protest, to more? Recently I ran ...

I May Be Wrong

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Lincoln/Washington/Berlin -- Trying to keep up on events and ideas in three very different capitals runs the risk of being shallow about eac...

Reauthorizing the HEA and the Need to Rebalance Funding

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February, 2015 Washington -- Another Congressional reauthorization of the Higher Education Act is upon us and I find myself in rare agreem...

Airplanes, Subways, and Buses

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February, 2015 Lincoln/Washington/Berlin -- Over the last month I've been in these three cities, each of which leaves much to be desir...

Blowback

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February, 2015 Berlin -- On February 2nd at the Zeughaus, in conjunction with an ongoing exhibition, the German Historical Museum sponsore...