Financing American Higher Education as a National Defense Issue

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August, 2015 Washington -- Seldom it is considered as such, but financing American higher education is in significant part a national defe...

Mut und Wut

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August, 2015 Berlin -- A remarkable exchange of letters has just been published in Berlin under the title Mut und Wut: Rudi Dutschke und P...

Fiscal Responsibity Yes, Austerity No

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July, 2015 Berlin -- Germany's heavy-handed maneuvering in Greece's financial crisis has set many Berliners against each other and...

Nebraska Innovation Campus, Again

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July, 2015 Lincoln -- Many years ago (four decades, in fact) I was employed by the State of Nebraska to review state agency budgets and g...

Pollinator Research

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June, 2015 Lincoln -- A UNL entomologist is establishing pollinator plots on the East Campus near 48th and Holdrege Streets. “Now it’s a ...

The Ban on Trans Fats

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June, 2015 Lincoln -- Today the national press is highlighting the remarkable career of a University of Illinois scientist, Fred Kummerow...

Heroes and Villains

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May, 2015 Washington -- The collapse and bankruptcy of Corinthian Colleges, the SEC's charges of fraud by ITT Tech executives against ...

How Germany Limits Student Loan Debt

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May, 2015 Berlin -- Those who follow student loan debt issues in the United States -- and that's about everyone now that this form of ...

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...